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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1921.

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"I deny that I ever touched her." said a woman charged at Tottenham "And with kicking a neighbour. none of these witnesses have told the truth, because they were not there Then the when I kicked her." magistrate fined her 40s.

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Many women are pawning their jewellery at a purely nominal figure before taking their holidays, simply for safety's sake; while many flat owners are pawping the whole of their wardrobe owing to the activities of the holiday season barglar. A

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MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

THE CHINA MALL.

LOSS OF THE "HONG MOH "

COURTS FINDING.

DISASTER DUE TO FAULTY COURSE.

RESCUERS' HEROISM PRAISED.

nature

The' as "Shansi", reported the -The Court of inquiry which inves tigated the circumstances under wreck on arrival at Swatow at about which the Singapore stanmer "Hong 6.45 pm on March 5.The British Moh was lost during the early part Consul was informed. The agents of last March delivered its finding at of the Hong Moh" were informed. the Marine Court today. The Court The former advised S. N. O. Hong attributed the cause of the casualty kong and requested assistance The to the faolly

of latter sent out a launch of the the Course set and kept morning of the 6th.

The Court of Inquiry comprised the following: Lieut. Cammdr. Con way Hake, RNR, (President), Lieut. Commdr. S. Robinson, R.N. (H. Dockyard), and Messrs. W. Davison, (CF.O.S.), J. McAnish (master ss "Yensang") and E. Walker (master "Haiyang"). Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for the owners of the Hong Moh" and also on behalf of the ships officers." -

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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

ROYAL, HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

Happy Valley Caurze.

THE abors course is CLOSED t

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play atil SUNDAY, 15th inst.

By Order of the Committee.

J.R. ROSS,

Hon. Secretary"

Horgkong, May 11, 1992.

ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.

THE following Competitions "have

bean arranged.

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14th, 13th & 16th May. Begey Pool for Gentlemen 'arer Old Course Entrance fee $1.

NAVAL ASSISTANCE, H.M.S. "Foxglove" on passage from Shangbai to Hongkong. when 50 miles from the NE of the Lammocks

·Boger Pool for Ladies over Relief intercepted a wireless telegraph message from H.B.M. Consul, Swatow Course Entrance fee 30 ets to Commodore in Charge, Hongkong, reporting the disaster, and asking for immediate assistance.

Foxglove shaped course for the Lammocks and arrived in the vicinity at 10.30 pm on March 5, there was no sign of the wreck in the dark. Af daylight on March 6, HMS, "Car Fixie" which had been ordered from the Pescadores by the Commodore, Hongkong, arrived and the two ships carried out rescue work under great difficulty, and at 5p.m. "Foxglove"left

- MONDAY, 16th” May. Mixed Foursome Competition ove

Entrance fee $1. Old Course. Medal Play. -Play may commence after 12.45 1.36 The Coarse will be retarved for the Competition from 12.45 to

By Order of the Committes.

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J.B ROSS Hon. Secretary.

Hongkong, May 11, 1921.

·PUBLIC AUCTION.

structions to sell by Public Auction. THE Undersigned have reonívei în-

Bushranging in London.

The "hold-up in Regent's Park in broad daylight of a motor-ran with 2,500 of Government money is startlingly like basbranging or the

HOW DISASTER HAPPENED. films of the Far West instead of the

The fall

text of the Court's busy traffic of London. The nearest parallel one recalls was in January decision as delivered by the Fre 1909, when two Russian Terrorists sident this morning was as follows: We find that the British ss snatched a bag containing £30 from a wages clerk in Tottenham in broad "Hong Moh." official number 85,862 daylight and tried to escape by jump-Singapore, of which Henry William for Hongkong, owing to coal short- ing on a tramway-car and forring the Holmes, number of whose certificate age and engine trouble, with 48 An International Congress of men motorman, with revolvers held to his of competency is 2,279 Hongkong, survivors on board. On March and women teachers of dancing held head, to drive at full speed for a mile. was master, left Hongkong on March 7, H.M.S. "Carlisle continued the at Paris decided to strike out the Is the parsuit twenty persons were 2nd 1921, for Swatow and Amor rescue work throughout the day 'shimmy" or "shudler dance shot, three fatally, one of the criminals with crew numbering 48 and through and when darkness set in the fag 1135, maximum draught was "Carlisie's" searchlights. At about! expressed that it would be possibi was killed by the police. In the Passengers from Singapore number- rescue work went on by aid of the 8 pm. Captain E. R. G. R. Evans, She arrived off Swalew about C.B., D.S.O., R.N., HLM.S. "Carlisle," latest outrage there is the same com- bias pulsion of the driver by threats of instant death, but, whereas in the 9.30 am on March 3rd, but the swam to and boarded the wreck and Tottenham instance the criminals draught of the ship was too great thereby encouraged and assisted the did not get away, in this they have too cross the bar so the ship pre-remaining people on board to gain! so far managed to disappear. Fort-ceeded towards Amoy. But owing the boats lying off from the wreck."

passengers ham, Middlesex, who left £15.165 nately there are descriptions of allita, persistent representations by the This went on till about II p.m. when Sandry Porcelain Vases, Brai

the Master the operation was abandoned for the the men concerned, and it is hoped Swatow

kara decided to return and anchored in night. save in regard to legacies to his so when convicted they will

At dawn on March 8, the Should either or both of my sons take to drinking to excess they are to through the medium of exemplary the vicinity of Bill Island, off Swatow,

ship into Swatow. A pilot came off wreck and as no sign of life was af er their capital, and such capital London is not the place in which to and informed the Master that it was seen to exist, the "Carlisle" left the be considered not capable of looking sentences, including fogging, that and signalled for a pilot to take the "Carlisle's boats again closed the is not to be paid to them until my emulate the exploits of the Kelly impossible to do so on account of the vicinity for Hongkong with 220

ship's draught.

survivors on board. executors are satisfied that a lasting gang. reform has taken place!"

from their classes: The hope was

to revive the valse by modernising it with the aid of some new steps, and demonstrations of three new raise steps were given.

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Mr. C. O. Atkinson, of Twicken-

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North

East East or

MASTER'S INTENTION OBSCURE. It is not clear from the evidence whether the master intended to pass.

1 South of the Boat Rocks.

THE FINDING, -

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explained above was either wrongly chosen or wrongly continued.

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Offers are invited for the purchase of We desire to record the persistent effort at rescue made by the British the following E-Enemy Steimers 8.3. Shansi during the 4th and

Nains of Gross Ket 5th March.

Toanage Tortage Bailt. The Court are of opinion that had Stamer

1903 ~~~ 1613 .1001

1898 1055 vessels passing in the vicinity and ANGELS

1115 1598 sight of the wreck previous to CEOWFA 1846 the "Shamsi's" arrival, closed the WONGEOI 177

1700 1108 1901 2 Between the White Rocks and wreck and ascertamed whether MANILA

Terms of sale and fall particulara High Lammock Island.

it was practicable to render assist- 3 To the north of the High Lamance, and if not, reported by wireless may be ascertained on application to, mock Island

telegraph or proceeded to the nearest If he intended to pass South of the port and reported the casualty, many Beat Rock the wrong course was set. more lives would probably have been the intended to pass between the saved. White Rocks and High Lammock Is

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At 5.30 pm. on March 3rd, the A small boat attached to the There are those who attempt to $.5. "Hong Mon" weighed anchor: Lammocks Lighthouse was observed taking The Insurance Committees of account for the failure of Sir Arthur and stood down to the south, and to render assistance by

miles Leicester and Preston are considering Conan Doyle's spiritualistic mission when in a position about one or two people from the adjoining rocks. a scheme for providing panel patients in Australia by pointing to the fact North East of the Good Hope Cape

We find that the cause of the with nurses. The Leicester com mittee suggests that the accumulated that in that country there are none the course was set 5, 85 E by com-casualty was the faulty nature of}

of those ancient haunts which are

SALE of ich essential to the propagation of ghosts on deg. Easterly deviation; speed are expected to reach the sum £7,000,000 for Great Britain, should. But it is a mistake to suppose that 39 knots, increased to 10 knots at be drawn on for the purpose. The particular environment is necessary about 6,30 pm. The weather was Preston committee proposes that a for modem "spooks." They fourish strong, North Easterly wind, rough nursing centre should be maintained in the least expected places. In a sea, overcast cloudy and visibility not by a payment of 3d. per member per recently published book, Mr. Eliot good.

O'Donnell has subjected a number of the ghosts of London to a searching remarkable An emu at the Zoological Gardens analysis. One very bit W. Wheatley, St. Stephen's-road, spectre, it seems, concealed itself in East Ham, E., so badly, that he col-a set of false teeth, some of which a lapsed and bad to be taken to hospital man had swallowed, with a fatal Wheatley was feeding the bird at the result. The remainder of the set developed the playful habit of pre- tending to choke people in their Kavens have been attacking young dreams, and of perching themselves

TRIBUTE TO CAFT EVANS, lambs and ailing sheep on Exmoor, on the dinner table. Long after they

The Court take this opportunity of ohe farmer having had three sheep were melted down they continued to land we are of opinion that the passage

Hackinnon Mackenzie & Co. Cakuits. attacked in this way within a few haunt a particular victim's fat in would have been dangerous and ut-recording the prompt assistance sent Sealed tenders should be lodged with days. Shepherds are keeping a sharp Knightsbridge. With a certain ap desirable in view of the weather cor- by the Commodore, Hongkong, the The tenders which must be in Sterling lookout for the birds. "

propriateness, the book which conditions and low visibility. If he intend speedy arrival of HMS. "Foxglove" tains this story is published by Nash!ed to pass North of the Lammocks and HMS. "Carlisle" on the scene of will be opened at Calcutta,

Light the course should have been the disaster, the skilful handling of FRIDAY, the 17th Jane, 1921, and The plans which were in pro in Suspense.

altered by a safe distance from the the ships, the bravery, endurance and must be ralid for 14 days after that date. gress for creating a motor-boat)

The Royal Academy was receiving Lammocks light. The course was not seamanship displayed by the boats: MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO., service on the Thames have broken in mail week the pictures and sculp- altered and the vessel struck the crews of the said ships and especially 16 Strand Road, down, and we shall have another ture submitted by aspirants. Decisi- North West point of the White Rocks the heroic action of Captain E.R.G.R. summer with only a few pleasure boats flying on the most interesting sions are in suspense. For the young at 7.20 p.m. on March 3. After the Evans.

artist this is an anxious time of wait- vessel struck, the weather be came river in the world.

ing. The verdict may make or mar worse and at 3 a.m. on March 4 him; however confident be may be the vessel broke in two.

time

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Of the 365,707 persons in Govern ment Departments on February 1. The staff of the Labour Ministry having increased by 2.778, made the total of White- hall employers 1,247 over that on January 1.

108,607 were women.

WHY

DOES A HOUSE HAVE CHIMNEY POTS?

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of the value of his work, he cannot be sure of its appeal to the acknow ledged jury of his craft.

SHANST'S" ACTION COMMENDED. We are of opinion that after the stranding the master and officers did all that was possible to assist the passengers. The sea was too rough

MURDERER HANGED.

THE LAST OF THE JAIL BREAKERS.

and permits for inspection will be issu ed by Messrs. Boustead & Co. Stops pore; Meera Balloch Broe & Co., Ltd. Rangoon: Mesare Mackinson Mac- kenzie Co, Hongk mg; sad the undersigned.

CALCUTTA Hongkong, April 25, 1921.

об

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

ALL preliminary notices of forth- Yeung Po, alias Yeung Hop Yin, coming meetings, lectures and In the arts the training is long, the

am on the last of the four jail breakers, who entertainments, sent for insertion In work is hard, and the prizes are rare. to launch boats. Great rewards-fame, money, the March 4 the 25. "Shansi" of 1984 was sentenced to death at the last the news columns of the China Mail, companionship of noble minds-await tons was sighted and closed the "Hong Criminal Session for the murder of are charged for at the rate of $1 each, last year) proziding that they do not. the successful. But how few they Mob and stood by till p.m. on the 5th. Warder Speed, was hanged at the (as announced in May and June of are. Yet the thought of the innumer-The sea was too rough for boat Victoria Jail at 5.02 this moming occupy more than four lines. In able failures and of all the bitter work, though this was attempted by At the subsequent inquest held in future if this space is exceeded they years has never yet deterred artistic the "Shansi." We are of opinion that Magistrate Orme's Court the usual will be placed in the advertising

cokimas at the prevailing rates. souls, Theirs is a toilsome road, and the "Shans!" did all that was possible verdict was returned. none of those who set out upon it under the circumstances picking up knows whether he or she shall win all the officers, some of the crew to the goal But they tread it be and a few of the passengers who had jumped overboard and drifted past

The tall chimneys which are charact cause they must. Be their product "Shansi. Many were drowned eristic of factories, power plants, and good or bad or, most pathetic of all, in attempting this. The master was other places where Eest is tised for the just not good enough, the art within generation of energy, and the chimney them allows them no choice... pots to be seen on top of dwellings. The Next War." have much in common, for the twe

A recent visitor to Germany states

work along the same principle that that the violence of German animost

drowned while attempting to swim from the "Hong Moh" to the "Shan- si." The "Shansi " then proceeded to Swatow, with about 45 survivors en board, with a view to getting further

a constant supply of oxygen is essent- ial to the burning of a bright, well against the French is a fact of assistance. We consider thes.3.

Shansi's decision to proceed to

which it would be as well to take Swatow where she hoped to obtain heating fire. In fact, the rate at which note, but that he found this feeling further assistance was a wise and s draught of air travels through the less pronounced in Rhineland. than burning coals is directly responsible in Berlin and Prussia proper. On proper thing to do.

for the rapidity at which the fire burns the other hand, the sentiment to- and it is for this reason that the open-wards "England" is now less hitter,

NEGLECT OF FASSING "STEAMERS, Distress signals were sent up by

ing of draughts above and below a and even approaches admiration. As the Hong Mob after stranding furnace will cause's rapid rise in tem- an example of Prussian mentality and a steamer, was sighted distant perature, while cutting off the supply and ignorance of other countries, he two to three mies. This steamer reports an interesting conversation signalled by Morse lamp. No answer of air keeps the flame at a low.ebb. in which one of the old regime. re could be made by the "Hong Mob

The rate at which this draught of air marked, "We shall arver fight Eng as her dynamo was out of action and tavels through the burning substance, land again. We shall be fighting the oil signal lamp, was of insufficient depends, in large part, upon the height alongside her in the next war power. This unknown steamer did

of the flue above the fire, and when a Against whom will that war be?"

grate or furnace does not "draw" well, he was asked."Against America!" the difficulty can often be overcome by the addition of an extension-known aschimney pot" to the top of the chimney. This has the effect of increasing the draught and operates along the same lines as the towering chimneys necessary to cause a suffici ent volume of air to pass through the factory fores

not stand by but proceeded on ita course. Other steamers were sighted by day on the 4th and 5th and on the night of March 4 at various distances from the Hong Mob," None of these

Mr. C.A. W. Griffiths, a passen bone passing close.

aboard the Laisang, from steamers closed the Honz Motor Calcutta to Hongkong, was Laken offered assistance Only in poe in

whore in Penang, safering, from stance have we say evidence that acute peritonitis, and anccumbed, any of these steamers sighted the The deceased gentleman was tra wreck and in that cans we have been velling round the world:

unable to call the master”

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