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MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921.

·CABLE ADDRESS

TELEPHANRE

"MERCURT" HAGKONG' MERCURY MOTOR CAR · SKORAL OFFER

OBBA FAID

LIG BA Kazeta

WHITEIN” UN 195

BENTLEY'S

t. Youre Miriant

-CO.

39-61 Des Vosur Road Central,

HONGKONG.

BROTHERS QUARREL

& CHOPPER USED.

EFPECTS OF DRINK.

With his head in a mass of band- ages; a Chinese youth this morning| appeared before Magistrate Orme to prosecute his elder brother who was Charged with having used a chopper

∙on him.

The defendant admitted the offence but said that he was under the in Ruence of liquor at the time and did not know what he was doing. They had an argument during a meal and words led to hlows.",

The Magistrate imposed a fine of $5 and ordered the defendant to pay $5 compensation.

MAIN BRANCH * Joe: Ros

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Besar Ko›A ??

ATIT PAST ERINCH (HA | WORK Saar

SIX FIRES.

THE CHINA MAIL.

CATCHING SNAKES. `-

À VERY LIVELY PASTINË.

COLLECTING IN TROPICAL JUNGLES.

Bassett Digby, FRGS, F.Am.GS. writes in the Daily Mail:-~-

You do not know what alertness is until you have collected snakes in a tropical jungle.

BURGLAR IN BASKET.

STRANGE ADVENTURE.

· THREE DAYS OUT IN' RAIN,

mady.

to

HOME BY 10, OK-".

LATEST VIENKA STRIKK

NO OPENING OF DOORS AT NIGHT.

The adventures of a dress basket

The latest strike in Vienna will form a chapter in the records of the mean that everybody who does not present epidemic of burglary in Gerreach home by 10 o'clock will have to

spend the night in the streets, for the The snake has the advantage of

It was deEvered at a Gerausbesorger or concierges, threaten fighting on his own ground. A good man station for despatch

to refuse to answer the door" at locality for makes is a bad locality Spandan goods station, but it night unless their union demands are for man-tangled undergrowth, giant | got sent instead to the goods met. Nearly every house in Vienna boulders, fallen trees, patches of station of Westermark, where it was is divided up into flats as in Paris. stuck in a heap of misdirected goods and the police insist that all front and was left out in the rain.

doors shall be closed punctually at After three days it was rather 10 and locked. After 10 nobody damp, and the goods stationmaster can enter or leave unless the concier decided to have it out of the stack.ge or a member of his family brings He found inside what at first be the key. thought to be the dead body of a man. He hauled it out and sent for the police. He also found a complete burglar's outfit.

swamp.

Silent, vigilant. well camouflaged iato bis background, a snake general- ly spots you before you spot him. He may lash up at you from the ground or down at you from the OUTBREAK AT MEESES. LANE, boughs and cable-strands of sagging ereepers, or out at you from the shrubs and rocks through which you pick your way. He is larking death. He hides his time and holds his stroke-then look out!

CRAWFORD'S.

Jakarta Madaga

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By the time the police arrived the body showed signs of life and, It is your legs that are vulnerable, restoratives being applied, sat up You armour yourself by rolling a and took notice, very much surprised thick cewspaper round each leg beat seeing the police and not his low the knee, and another above the accomplices, and

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TO-DAY'S

· ADVERTISEMENTS,

Before the war they were entitled to exact the equivalent of 2d. from everyone who went in or out after 10, but the legal door-money is worth DAMAGE $25,000.

Dow only about the tenth part of a farthing. The majority of the strikers are in favour of tenants be- Damage estimated at $25,000 was

ing allowed to hire front-door caused by a fire which broke out on

latchkeys from them, at a substantial the second floor of Messrs." Lane,

weakly rate. at being

But at present it is Crawford, and Co's, premises in Ice knee, keeping them in place with Wesdermark and not at Spandau. legal for a tenant to have a street House Street on Saturday night. The elastic bands. And you wear thick The inference was floor was devoted to the manufacture horsehide boots, taking care to slip burglar had had himself despat-

plain The latchkey. of hair mattresses which fed the hard leather pad under the lacing ched to the goods station in Spandau, flares until the fire had rapidly at-eye-holes

întending there to join others for a sumed big dimensions. It was a

Your gun is not much good. It raid on the goods yard, but instead strenuous fight the firemen had to injures the specimen and, besides, of being prisoner for a few hours he pet up for over an hour before you've often no time to take aim. A had been in the basket for three days. they could get control of the strong. fae-meshed landing-net in starred and half frozen. situation, and it was very nearly the left hand, and a strong 30in. midnight before the "all clear bamboo stick, weighted at one end could be given. The whole stock of with lead, are your best weapons." bair was destroyed. In addition considerable damage was done by water to the grocery and cigar de partments on the lower floor. The ¡To the Editor of the " China Mail." damage is covered by insurance. The

I cause of the outbreak is a mystery. Sit-The inky-figured individualį The smoke from the burning hair "who concludes his scrupulous identi invaded the rooms of the King rode under the factitious somme-de-Edward Hotel, and caused not a little guerre of Adversanes has with his alarm among the residents How. It is wiser not to try to kill or net astal timidity indicated in a per-ever, they were soon reassured and phrase that I used the word "in returned to their rooms. Thanks to veigle" in the sense of the word the systematic way the Brigade went "inveigh." The latitude of the hour to work, the Hotel was at no time in and the concupiscence of the liberties danger. we had poured out at the shrine of Bacchus convict me that he could not ↑

CORRESPONDENCE. -

GOT HIM.

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OTHER OCTBREANS.

The deadly cobra is an opponent who keeps you pretty well keyed up while you are tackling him. But it takes him a couple of seconds to lift back his inflated hood after a miss, so if you pounce on him the moment after his hood goes smack in the dust, after a lunge that misses you, you'l get him.

a snake that coiled and poised for a strike. It too tricky to estimate his range when coiled, if he is nearly hidden, as is often the case, by leaves. Let him strike.

Before he was taken away by the police he gave the astonished station- master some comments on Prussian railway administration under the new regime.

CHATEAU LOOT FOUND.

MISSING WORKS OF AET.

OFFICER WHO STOLE PRINCE'S

OLD MASTERS.

near Cambrai, by a lieutenant of the

CONSULADO DE PORTUGAL.

AOS amigos do falecido EDUARDO

JOSE DE NORONHA e todos os membros da comunidade Portuguesa en paço o favor.de com. parecer amanhã, 15 do corrente, pelas 16.30 da tarde, wo Club de Recreio.

era Kowloon,

Consulado de Portugal em Hong- kong, 14 de Março de 1921.

CERVEIRA DE ALBUQUERQUE

E CASTRO, Consul Geral de Portugal

Male

NOTICE.

When he has lashed out at you,

Valuable works of art stolen from The Fire Brigade had a very busy he is helpless for the 3 or 4 seconds possibly have been in a possession to week-end. Before they had com- less in a small snake and more in the chateau of the Prince de Chimay, weigh pronunciations so accusatively plered their work on the city blaze, a big one) that it takes him to re- But, even granting the allegory, 2 they received another call, this time coil. Then, like a fish, you catch Hungarian Army have just been mistake of that sort is far less repre- to Repulse Bay. All available equip him a crack in the neck with your recovered by the Rumanian authoriMR BEYON ALEXANDER of Vancouver, Canada, bai on Sale sentative than his ignorance of the ment and as many men as could be loaded stick, dislocating his vert are ties character of Acres. Odds lyrics and spared were at once rushed to the so that he can only writhe where he

The Rumanian police, it is stated, DAYS his samples of Canadian Fars

at W POWELL, La. for THREE literature! The vernacular creature scene where they found a matshed lies. He can neither strike nor glide found at the house of M. Winklehner, will say he has never heard of Don behind the Repulse Bay Hotel, away.

These Fars are very choice Alaska Idirector of coal mines at Petrofani. Whiskerandos next! I trust, Sir, you occupied by "contractor's coolies You til each capture Into alin Transylvania, 92 paintings by Mink, Sable, White & Black Fox also will use the supererogation of your engaged in construction work so stout linen bag and take the first Old Masters, eight precious vases, The Mink coats are of the Enest literal knowledge and position to re-well ablaze that it was impessible to dumping him, bag and all, into a Asked to give an explanation of how than hall price.

opportunity of killing bim by and two antique clocks in onyx quality and all these samples are iem present his idiosyncracy, threatening save it. The firemen thoroughly bim otherwise with a dimidiation of saturating the embers, all danger few minutes, and then into a screw Winklebuer said that he held them pool in the nearest watercourse for a fhe came into possession of them, M. his monthly emollients.Yours. etc.. from dying sparks was countered.

MALAPROP.

for his son Jean. Earlier in the evening the brigade top glass jar in your knapsack. was called out to a fire in Connaught Back in camp, his mortal remains Road, near the Wing On Co., where go into a tray of embalming fluid for a chimney blaze was easily extingui with the data of his capture and

the night. Finally, carefully labelled sted without much damage.

At 9 pm, an alarm came from wrapped in cheese-cloth, he goes into

STREET ACCIDENTS.

MOTOR COLLIDES WITH RICSHA.

FALL FROM MOVING FRAM.

A Chinese who was yesterday knocked down by motor car No. 44 in Queen's Road West, received in juries which rendered him encon salous. He was removed to hospital and is progressing favourably, but is! not yet entirely out of danger. In "ternal injuries are suspected.

patient, who was 57 years of age, is not in a serious condition. He ad- mits that he had himself to blame for the accident...

As an artillery officer of the Hungarian Army, Jean Winklehner tear Cambrain the battlef the had been engaged in the fighting collection. from the chateau of the

Hoogkong, March 14, 1921.

LAMMERT BROS.

THIS FIRM, founded by

MR. GEORGE P.LAMMERT, is the

Hollywood Road, near the Central your big clamp-topped stockpot, in Prince de Chiway. The Rumanian oldest established auctioneering firm in j Police Station, where an outbreak in which he eventually arrives at the police have given the treasures to the Colony. The firm as well set as

a Chinese dwelling, was quickly museum. dealt with.

During the day the firemen attended a stall fire in Aberdeen Street and extinguished it before the flames had

time to spread and cause any serious damage.

On Friday night, a fire broke out on the ground floors of two houses în Queen's Road West occupied by the Hip Won and Kwong Shun Cheung firms of rattan dealers,

STABBING AFFRAYS.

MURDER IN A TEMPLE.

STRUGOLE IN THE DARK.

CASTLE PEAK BAY TRAGEDY.

were

cut

the French Legation at Bucarest. Brokers, Surveyors and Appraisers of which has restored them to the Goods damaged either by fire or water. prince.

Their saction rooms are situated în Daddell Street.

Hongkong, March 14, 1921.

CHINESE GIRL STUDENTS.

STUDIES IN PARIS.

A COURAGEOUS LEADER,'

On Saturday motor car No. 433 ran into a ricsha with a fare which was proceeding along Queen's Road. East.

respectively. The premises were Yesterday morning the police 1 and overtured it. Both the puller used solely for storing rattan, which found the dead body of a male and the lare, a Chinese gentleman, barned furiously. A strenuous fight Chinese lying in a pool of blood on were thrown into the side channel. resulted in the Brigade getting the a footpath leading to the Tinlau but excepting for a shaking, neither upper hand, but not before 2 large Temple at Castle Peak Bay.

The One of the most remarkable signs suffered any injuries." However, the portion of the goods stored in the remains boze several knife of the great intellecual movement in fare's clothing was badly damaged and houses had been destroyed. The wounds. Marks as if a struggle China is the presence of 20 Chinese the riesha smashed beyond repairs. Hip Woo Company is insured with had

taken place

girl students in Paris. They have While alighting from a moving tram the Tung Ch Insurance Co., for found on the ground. Tracks led been sent by the Peking Government car yesterday, a Chinese missed his $3.000; and the other for a similar into the interior of the temple where to study at universities and are un- footing and feil striking the left side amount with the South British Insur- the police heard groans in a cockloft der the guardianship of Miss Foume- of his face on the footboard of a pass-ance Co. Neither the cause of the which led to the discovery of a man Tcheng, one of the most famous of ing motor car. He was rendered un- cutbreak, nor the extent of, damage in a semi-conscious condition bleed. Chinese women leaders. conscious and had to be removed to done to property has yet been ascering ircely

from several

The daughter of a great Chinese the hospital in an ambulance. The tained.

wounds on the legs and arms. noble, Miss Tcheng, was one of the When the man recovered conscious ardent spirits of the Chinese revolu- ness in hospital, be said that he and the tionary party 10 years ago, and shared deceased were in charge on the temple in the most remarkable dangers and On Saturday night they retired as adventures. At the age of 17 she usual, be to the cocklalt and the de-refused to accept the fiance that ceased to the back of the lower portion her family had chosen for her. After of the temple. About 5 a.m. he was some years of struggle, in which she awakened by some one slashing took a personal and most dangerous him with a knife. He struggled with part-on several occasions she made his assallant. The noise of the scuffle the fourney-from-Tientsin-to-Peking aroused the deceased who was.com-carrying arms and munitions for the Suffering from wounds on his ing to his assistance when the revolutionaries the Republic was head, alleged to have been inflicted assailant jumped down from the finally victorious, and she decided by a man whose identity in not cockloft and grappled with him, that it was necessary for her to study JAPAN'S CROWN PRINCE. Street, Hongham, is now receiving gether, the intruder gradually driving Paris and passed brilliantly her law known, a Chinese living in Cook The, men struggled violently to in Europe. Miss Tcheng came to medical treatment at the Kwong the deceased towards the door of the 20 girls will study medicine, law, examinations at the Sorbonne. The ́DIPANTURE YESTERDAY. Wat Hospital.

temple. What happened in the open A Chinese aged about 50 years witnesss did not know. He was so science and art, and, when they have MOVEMENTS ON SATURDAY," " was on Saturday removed to the badly wounded that he could not graduated, they will return to China

Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from offer the deceased The Crown

any assist to found girls schools and colleges Prince of Japan knife wounds to bis face alleged to ance OF resumed his vogage to Europe yester- have been inflicted in the course of a for himself.

summon help on European lines. He had lain help day morning, the warships "Katori" fight, by a man who is in police less for nearly two hours before he and: "Kashima" sailing at 10 am. custody.

was discovered by the police. The

As the result of a fall when alighting from tram car No. 30 while in motion in Praya East yesterday, an unkown Chinese woman received such serious injuries that she died in an ambulance on the way to the -hospital from fracture of the base of

the skull.

VICTIMS IN HOSPITAL,

KNIVES FREELY USED.

етер

for Singapore, the next port of call. Suffering from stab wounds to his man's injuries are not serious but

On Saturday His Imperial Highness Bp and neck alleged to have been he is very weak from the loss of a Mining Administration's mines for visited Green Island and inspected received in the course of a fight with lot of blood.

the lighthouse there. Later in the another man who is being detained afternoon he received a large party by the police, a Chinese is now

of Japanese school children on the receiving treatment at the Govern

Katori" and presented them with ment Civil Hospital.

a cake brought specially from Tokyo.

In the vening on official banquet

was given at which H.E. the Gover-

nor and embers of the Executive

Lazd Lepi-latire-Councils were pre-

About 4.30 a.m., on Saturday, two men, one of whom was artped

The total output of the Kailan

the week ending February 26, 1921, amounted to 53,335, tops and the sales during the period, to 82.943

tons.

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PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

ПHE Undersigned have received instras tions to sell by Puble Auction,

od

WEDNESDAY, March 18, 1921. Commencing at 11 m.

their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street A Quantity of High Claas Havana, Maulia and Dutch

Cigars.

(More or less damaged by water) Note:

A Large proportion of the above are odly label damaged. instant.

On view from Tuesday, the 15th

Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, March 14, 1921

20

PRIDAY, March 13, 1921.

commencing at 11

st their Baler Rooms, Duddell Street, A Quantity of

· Miscellaneous Goods.

Comprising --

Iron Safes, Baamel, Paint, Iron. Ropes, Motor Car Tyres (various sizes),

Safety Razors, Assorted Brushes,

etc.

etc., Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT EROS.,

.Auctioneers Hongkong, March 14, 1921.

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

ALL preliminary notices of forth- coming meetings, lectures and with a knife bruke into the house of Chinese porcelain, sold at Messrs. Lentertainments, sent for, insertion in woman living m Pokong village Christie's on February 4, by oider the news columns of the China Mail, A Chinese woman, admitted to New Territories, and after binding of the Indge hospital yesterday suffering from the and gagaing the inmates, ransacked Majesty's Provincial Court, Hankow (as amenced in May and June of of His Britannic are charged for at the rate of $1 each, effects of an immersion, was alleged the place, making off with a box must have realised one of the small last year) providing that they do not to have attempted to commit suicide containing clothing and money, to fest days totals for many years at occupy more than four lines. by jumping into the harbour. She the value of $20. Several suspects these rooms. Governor paid a farewell visit to was rescued by boatmen. Her con- are now, being detained for identifica fetched £485 78, no lot fetching over will be placed in the advertising The 140 lots only future if this space is exceeded they dition is not serious.

tion.

£10.

| calumas at the prevaling rates..

sent

Before the departure of the Crown

Printe yesterday morning, H.E. the

him on the "Katori.“

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A GOLD MEDAL

from & committee of critical judges st the

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which testifies to its excellency, and purity.

genstine

Beware of bogus imitations. No Tansan

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Tangan rises the spirits and excites sanguine even as a flagon of wine exhilarated the monks of old..

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