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FUGILISM.

A QUEER MESSAGE.

CLEVELAND, OH, July 28,

Io connection with the State boxing commission, local sporting writers have named Bryan Downey es the world's middleweight champion, assert ing that in a twelve round contest bere last night he knocked out the holder, Johnny Wilson in the seventh round. The referee was Gardner of Boston, which is Wilson's home town. He gave Wilson the decision on a foul.

SOVIET TELEGRAPH CONCESSION.

GREAT NORTHERN TO WORK SYSTEM BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA.

CHRISTIANTA, July 28.

It is reported that the Soviet Government has granted the Great Northern Telegraph Company a concession to work the telegraph system between Russia, Denmark, Japan, and China by which the company must

establish stations at Moscow and Petrograd.

DUTCH QUEEN'S VISIT TO NORWAY.

THE HAGUE, July 28. Now that the cabinet crisis is settled, Queen Wilhelmina accompanied by Princess Juliana sails on August 3 aboard the steamer "Merope" to visit the Norwegian fjords.

DUTCH SHIPPING SUBSIDY.

THE HAGUE, July 28.

COFFEE SHOP WHISKY.

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POLICE OFFICER INVITED TO GO AHEAD.

-THIRSTY MAN FROM DRY COUNTRY.

THE CHINA, MAIL..

and could not be expected to be care fully observant unless they were expecting something to happen, which, according to the evidence they were not, the usual defence in such cases. everywhere to put the responsibility on a customer, and if keepers were

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

Besides, it was ARINE ENGINEERS GUILD OF

CHINA

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let off easily on that count there CHINA COAST OFFICERS GUILD. An incident in a coffee shop where would never be any conviction. The police officer was invited to door was a small one, and even have a drink from the offending though the defendant and his em COMBINED MEETING of Mem whisky battle was retsted to Magie ployees were in fact in the kitchen, Ohces, on SATURDAY, 30th July,

Abers will be held at the Guild tate Orme this morning, when They could not, he thought, help 1021 at 3 par. Sharp. Miyada, the proprietor of a Japanese noticing the battle when Boyer came coffee shop on the first floor of No up the stairs. He world fiue "the 18. Praya East, was charged with defendant $100. having allowed liquor to be consumed in the premises, contrary to the provision of bis licence..

Mr. C. H. Lyson conducted the defence.

Inspector Blackman deposed that about 9 a.m., on July 23, he visited the coffee shop, the proprietor of which beld an eating bosse licence which

LOST A TORPEDO.

. $10 REWARD OFFERED.

The naval authorities, announces

AB Membera in Port are reguented" to be present.

For M, E. G. C. & QC. O. G.

W. J. STOKES, Songkong, July 29, 1921.

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a notice posted up at the Harbour did not include permission to supply Office to-day. have lost a torpedo

PUBLIC AUCTION. liquor with meals. Five American and will pay $10 for news of its merchant seamen were sitting at a whereabouts. The torpedo was lost PARTICULARS and Conditions of table with a bottle of liquor partly by sinking on July 20 from a naval be held on TUESDAY, the 2nd day the letting by Public Auction Sale, to empty.

All the men had glasses vessel that was of the village nf of August, 1931, at 3pm, at ia front of them. At another Yeung Shu Sha about a mile from the Odices of the Public Works Departament, table there were three more Ameri Bastern shore of Eamma Island byder of His Excellency the Governor. cans dricking coffee. The defendant. It is thought that it may float tot Shamsulpo in the Colour of a Japanese woman

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and another

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Japanese man were present in the the surface again or be caught up room waiting on the men. The a fisherman's net and anybody bottle contained whisky, and one of who can furnish information that the Americans (Boyer by name,) will enable the basal authorities to told him that he had brought it recover it will get the reward stater: proprietor had nothing to do with and weighs about a ton. It is

the shop and that

The torpedo is about 18 feet long By Mr. Lyson: The witness regarded as dangerous. entered so suddenly that the people in the room did not have a chance of hiding the battle. In his opinion.. the waiters in the room could not have helped noticing the bottle on the table.

Examined by Mr. Lyson Chris Joha Lea, a marine fireman said that he did not see any of the walters in the

guys" in

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room when the Inspector entered, ing a bouseboy employed by Mr. "Before Magistrate Orme this morn- There were several other the room at the time, but no one else Knight of the P. & O.Co., was charged with having kept an opium divan in

had a drink from Boyer's bottle.

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R. R. Boyer, ex-steward of the ..the servants quarters of his master's "West Ivan," said that he went to the house. No.13 The Peak. After coffee shop to look for a friend named C.P.O. Watt had deposed to raiding Brown, with whom he was to go or the premises and seizing one taclof board the s.s.Delight," to sign on, illicit o fun and gear for preparing he sat about waiting for him. A table boy employed at the Peak THE Undersigned have received ins Brown was having breakfast, so opium. the accused was fined $90. Suddenly be felt faint, and went out Hotel was fined $3 for smoking clics from, the REGISTRAR,

pium on the premises.

ECPERKE Corky, to sell, by Public Auction,

The Dutch South African Shipping Subsidy Bill passed the First Chain-a,few drinks? None of the waiters was ber by 19 votes to 13,

PRICE OF RICE.

BURGLAR INJURED..

FALL FROM BAIN PIPE.

On account of the floods in the rice producing regions in the provinces along the Yangtze River upon which places Canton depends for most of An attempt to commit a burglary the rice supply, very little rice, says at No. 215, Temple Street, Yaumati the Canion Times, is forthcoming was made yesterday by a from these places. Consequently Chinese who climbed s waste local prices in Canton

are water pipe to the verandah of the on the increase. Rice of medium first floor where he was trying one and poor grades is selling at 13 of the windows when the inmates ed a very high price among the poorer verandah rails, he climbed on to the gave the alarm. Vaulting over the class of people.

pipe. and was about to slide down to the road. when he missed his hold and fell a distance some of 20 feet. He was picked up unconscious with

catties for a dollar which is consider.

HUGE LOSS ON SUGAR.

to get a drink. The Soldiers Can- teen was hot yet opened, so he bought a bottle from a spirit shop and took it to the coffee house. As Brown was in his room dressing when he re turned he opened the bottle and had

in the room at the time. He did not bide the bottle because he did not know that it was illegal to drink liquor in the house. Suddeply.a man, whom he afterwards learned a police officer, came in and seized the bottle. Although the man was not an acquaintance, witness told him that he was welcome to

Was

go ahead and have a drink.”

Mr. Lyson: Did he accept your hospitality? No. He looked wild and walked to the door. Then someone told me he was a police officer, za 1 went out and talked to him, because. trouble through me. He told me to I did not want the "props" to get in

I did not want to be involved in any git out of it," and I got" because trouble.

The witness added that he came) to Court voluntarily this morning for the sole purpose of claiming the

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS

FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATIONS OF HONGK

BANK

NOTICE.

HOLIDAY...

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Nall FIRE & MARINE INSUR ANCE OFFICES will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business on MONDAY, Angust fat, 1921

By Order, LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWE

Serclavier Hongkong, July 29, 1921; -

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SATURDAY, July 30, 1991

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thair Bales Room No. 5, Des Youx Boad, Corder of

Icg House Bireet

Removed from Conduit Road for Convenience of Sale

A QUANTITY 07 HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

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& Com Including one piano? Terms -Cash.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers to the Goverment. Hongkong, July 20, 1921.

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND

OTHER INSTITUTIONS...

ALL preliminary notices of forth-

coming meetings, lectures and

fractured leg and removed to the whisky, the receipt for which he WTELEPHONE operator for Bank, entertainments, sent for insertion in

TAXPAYERS TO FIND ANOTHER Cloverument Civil Hospital.

£24,500,000.

The Royal Commission on Sugar, in a report issued state that they estimate a defcit of not less than £24,500,000.

BOUND AND GAGGED,

porduced.

By Mr. Lyson: The witness drank the whisky from a glass he found on the table.

Mr. Lyson: And where did you

get the water?-I never use any. It spoils the drink!-(Laughter)-

"ANTED.—AN EXPERIENCED

Flease state in reply age and experience. Box 1308, c/o "CHiya Han."

WANTED.

the news columns of the China Mail, are charged for at the rate of $1 each, (as announced in May and June of last year) providing that they do not occupy more than four lines. In Replying to further questions the BELE53Two Operators with future if this space is exceeded they witness said that zone of the other

Steamer Praction Wanted. boys had a drink. He did not ask Immediate engagement. Apply Box will be placed in the advertising While all but two fokis employed them to because he did not think 1309, e/o “Curra Hai.”

columns at the prevailing rates. increase in the selling prices of its by the Ngai Ying Shan pineapple they would want any liquor so soon sugare, so as to build up a reserve to plantation on Tseng Island, were at after breakfast. Besides, they knew meet the loss which it foresaw as a wedding festival, the door of the that if they wanted a drink they were probable on the liquidation of its matshed was smashed in and two always welcome to reach out for the stocks on the conclusion of its opera armed men entered. A fok! who bottle.

The fault is not ours," state the MATSHED INMATES ROBBED. Commissioners. for from time to time since the middle of 1919, the Commission bas. pleaded for an

"OVERLAND CHINA MAIL"

Contains all the News of the Week,

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tions. But on no occasion has a rise who had crept under a bed was By the Magistrate: The witness's been authorised until week or months selz.d by the leg and pulled country was now “dry,” but former. after it was recommended, and then out, Bound and gagged, he was ly a man with a bottle of his own, not always to "the extent re-fastened to one of the support poles gaald take it to a cale or restaurant commended.

of the matshed. The other foki was and drink it there. The witness did "If our recommendations had been similarly treated. The robbers then not take the trouble to enquire before approved at the time they were called Lo two accomplices who taking the bottle to the coffee shop made our receipts would have been had been keeping watch outside the because be did not think that in a £16,000,000. more-than they have matshed, and all four proceeded "free-and-easy, wet place" like this, ben."

leisurely to ransack the place, taking there would be any restrictions on everything of value, including 60 quor.

Domestic Gerrengen» catties of rice and six baskets full of A Chinese waiter said that bis em Leading Articles pineapples ready packed for transport ployer had given blm strict instruc

There arrived by the sa" Lake Fielding yesterday, 22 Chinese destitutes from Penang. They were taken before the S.C.A, who will arrange for their repatriation.

Found by L/S Dredger on the Yaumati breakwater, the dead body of a male Chinese child, aged about 2 years. was yesterday removed to the public mortuary. There were 'no marks of violence, and death appears to have been due to natural causes. The child is thought to have died in a sampan, and been dumped by its parents.

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GOLD DISPUTE CASE.

Treck.....

to market in the morning. The tions not to allow liquor to be drunk Company Meeting. victims were left in their uncomforts-on the premises. He was not in the Local and General ble position until their forks returned room at the time, or he would have 7 Hong Mob in the emall hours of the morning. prevented Boyer fyr Opening the Local Chinese Feud.

bottle.

Uncharted RockFord Mr.

that Lyson said

Le Typhoon Weather father had no option but to admit a Children's Corner technical offence, but the facts and 0. Manela........ showed that every precautionFall Court Appealu had been taken, and it was, very Local Labour Dispute unfortunate that such a thing bad Kowloon Trade happened when the proprietor or his At Long Last min employees were not there to prevent Adversarius" Heckled Lit. The case did not warrant a heavy Bloque Industrielle Judgment was consented to yester, 1 penalty and be submitted that Bank Soes Broker day afternoon by the defendant in caution to be more careful in future, Madman's Escapade the case heard before, Mr. Justice would meet the case.

Motor Boat Sale.........

DEFENDANT CONSENTS TO JUDGMENT.

A married woman living in First Street, West Point, yesterday which the Yee Tak Bank of No pared to believe Inspector Blackman's Charged by Bull

J. E. Wood at the Summary Court in The Magistrate said he was pre-Court Martial attempted to commit suicide by 50, Bosham Strands, lained teridence that the defendant was in the Oblam of Stemmes ..taking opium after a Tier with the sum of $1,379.73 (reduce room. As the Inspector was there on Short Cuts to Wealth.

The the word take hole of vierything, going Gold Dispute

her husband.Prompt.ínedṣčąkażies to a frá San330, the filth it STAR to be expected that he 1-7 Miraculous

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were this mafujog Fen' before the Court) (rop! La Ping dam, broker, 1 bu fil the room. While he did not Bankruptcy

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Local Wedding

Silver Wedding

Peru's Centenary.

Marine Miedoings.

8--12 Unlucky Lottery Tickets

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Mai Tai

Harbour Tragedy; mod

Government House

Victória Récreation Club

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14-15 Police/Raidu je da dogmata

Thefts on Steainer .......... 16-17 Special Cables ....

Sport

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