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LOGAL AND GEMERIL.

The French steamer "Kisng. of it. So with Mr. Sayer. Asking." was attacked by 200 soldiers at matter of fact this was a wise decision. Patung. One passenger and a waiter The question was. Should the child- were killed, two of the staff severely ren's playgrounds at the Peak have wounded and several others slightly lavatory accommodation provided? Lojured. There are two playgrounds on the Peak for the Peak children, who are Presumably not very numerous. there should, therefore, be two such conveniences provided. They would have to be flushed and drained- a

After living on a vegetarian diet, for 10 years, ten Forniasan Budd- hists, five of whom were women, crossed over to the Pescadores and sepgn: oblivion from the ills of this worl3, and life everlasting in the next,

| very expensive job, and somebody would have to watch that they were not used by the wrong people. Peak mothers would not trust such watchers as yet. and would tell their amnahs ou no accouar to let their precious darlings

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TUESDAY. AUGUST

THE MURDER IN THEATRE.

TRIAL OPENS.

23,621.

AT THE FOUNTAIN.

THE MAN AND THE MUI TSAI

It is extraordinary that a man

A small moon-faced id taï who should be able to stand up in a

owned up to being 13 years of age crowded theatre, fatally shoot anformed the subject of a charge of

actor on the stage, and make bis

kidnapping preferred at the Magistracy escape, without there being a large to-day against a coolic. number of witnesses"afterwards able SHANGHAI. Aug. 23. to agree on details. Yer but for the As a result of a typhoon which other seturs, it looks as if evidence, narrowly missed Shanghal there was

She told Magistrate Orme in the course of her evidenco that on August 19 she was sent out by her mistress to wash clothes at the street fountain

ready to go home after her. washing by casting themselves into the ocean.much flooding over the city. Two in this case might have been very in Yaumati. When she was getting had been done the defendant that Magistrate Lindsell was taking came

and KD

promised The bodies have not been recovered steamers went aground at Tungsha slight.

Spit near the entrance to the Yangtze rives. These ships are the French depositions yesterday. The accused if she would take back the clothes to Glaucus. Both were bound from and denies that he did the deed) is he would take her to Canton. The |go uear these places. So much public Shanghai

aground within a few hours of each actor was called Li Siu Fan.wards the place were the steam money would be wasted, for a small organize an association to be called Hongkong to Shanghai. They raai named Yeung Ko. The murdered man was taking her by the hand to- The Pacific Conference Research other. They are in no immediate His company was the Chow Fung launches were when someone came Society." This body, which will have

A group of Chinese optimists in liner Cordillere and the Blue Funnel (who was arrested outside the theatre. her mistress and then return to him

зте endeavouring

to

ia branch in Peking, will consider | danger. Both will be lightered, after | Nin. Date of sensational shooting-lip and spoke to her, Alter that the

questions to be brought forward at the Conference, and formulate three propositions is the basis of the solu- tion of all outstanding questinos bet weer China and other nations.

Whilst one Chinese newspaper notes with alarm that the number of 'steck exchanges" established and projected in Shanghai has reached a

which it is hoped they will proceed to Twa pontoons in the Shanghai. harbor have sunk.

NOT A DWELLING.

THEATRE AND_BURGLARY.

MAGISTRATE'S DECISION.

August 16. Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Assistant Crown Solicitor, conducted the prosecution. Accused was not professionally defended.

man was arrested.

Other evidence disclosed that a dispenser at the Kwang Wah Hospital saw the defendant approach the girl Dr. Moore, of the G.C.H., gave and lead heraway. While the defendant medical evidence about the victim. was away getting his clothes together He had a bullet wound in the the dispenser spoke to the girl and lower half of the front of the finding that she did not know the was unconscious, man warned her that the latter and he died about 15 minutes after would probably take her away and Later he reported the admission. The following morning.

neck.

Не

A post-mortem examination showed arrested the coclie.

The defendant explained to the Magistrate this morning that the

minority on the Peak who would: not appreciate it, while more necessary provision in the city below is ignored. There are no such conveniences for shopping ladies in Victoria, in other cities. Nobody would be a penny the worse if the Peak children went on for years maraging as they have managed, in the past; but we hear that down below in the City the absence of such provision is felt as a serious inconvenience. The

That a theatre is not a dwelling whole trouble has arisen from the hundred, another notes with equal lawver-like trick in argument of satisfaction that many of the pro and therefore cannot be bargled in he was identified by his fellow-actors matter to a district watchman who over-emphasising an item of favour-posals are being abandoned. The the legal sense, according to the local that the bullet had entered the lower able evidence, which, in this particular medicine merchants, for example, Larceny Ordinance of 1865, was the part of the neck, slightly to the left Ltd. instance. Mr. Sayer was obliged to have decided to put their money into substatice of the decision reached by of the middle line, had passed through mai tai had lost her way and had port our was imitoper, as leadingla factory for the manufacture of Magistrate Lindsell yesterday after, the windpipe, and bad fractured the asked him to take her to a certain to the sort of thing that it has led | medwire instead of establishing annoon in the case in which Li Shing, i seventh cervical vertebrae, injuring { spot under a banyan tree as she formerly in the employ of the Hong the spinal cord, and had come to would be able to find her way home kong Amusements, Ld.. as an operarest in the muscles of the back of the from there. to. There was no reflection on his exchange.

tor, was charged with breaking into neck at the right of the backbone.

He wanted to call evidence and subordinates, and none taken. The

The reddish colour taken on by and entering the Tai Yat Kinema witness removed the bullet, which he the Magistrate agreed to adjourn the Telegraph chims to "knor that the Sanitary Departent staff feel burt the sun and moon following the theatre in Yaumati with intent to now identified. Death was due to ease until tomorrow in order to give

autumn season has commit a burglary.

The case was adjourned at the last injury of the spinal cord caused by him an opportunity to get into touch at the way their reports are treated."advent of the

We caused consternation among some į What? The whole staff!

Mr. F. C. Neville, surreyer in the happen to know that is not so. One classes in Peking and has caused a hearing to enable the Magistrate to silly man only Then why doesn't revival of the various religious rites. consider the point whether the Tai

st instead Many of the less educated in and Yat theatre could be regarded as a Public Works Department, put in To prove a charge plans of the Woping Theatre and our contemporary say of misrepresenting a considerable about the capital believe that the dwelling bouse.

condition is a forerunner of disaster of burglary it was essential to prove neighbourhood, made from measure body of men à

Mr. G. W. Avenell, of Lace We sympathise with

and they are burning incense and that the place entered was a dwelling ments taken by him.

bouse. it somewhat. Local topics for the performing the riles to head it off.

Unable to find mention of a place Crawford & Co., having 26 years leader-writer have been very rare of late, and it is a strong temptation

of amusement in the Ordinance in knowledge of firearms, described the connection with breaking and enter-Mauser pistol picked up, and certain ing. Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton, for the defects in it. prosecution, endeavoured yesterday being a picture theatre within the definition of a dwelling house.

The Magistrate: The question is

included in a dwelling. whether a theatre can possibly be

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matter were witnesses: the head f the department was the judge, GOMES.-At his residence No. 3 acting as jury. It may be kaid that we should refer to these. Sanitary Austin Avenue on August 23 Dr. A. S. Gomes in his 77th year. Inspectors as expert witnesses. The bounces about Funeral will pass the morume letter by Salud at 5.45 p.m. tomorrow the 24their training, their certized efficiency. their considerable study, etc.: but

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The China Mail.

TEJTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE

HosszONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1921.

SANITARY HATTEFS.

to make the most of every little point that offers. But this should be dene discreetly. It should not include injustice. If Salad"

disgruntled Sanitary iaspired

well as a silly one. Inspector, as

ur contemporary should beware how far it allows him to mislead it, for his own unwise ends.

At

Incidentally. we would suggest to the writer of the Telegraph editorial rensure that one fact alone is worth itsnsideration. It is not an officia secret that Mr. Saver is a married

The Shanghai Mixed Court provided another good example last week of the cosmopolitan nature of Shanghai. Apart from the nationality of any casual visitors, the people case included interested in one Englishmen. Irishmen, a Scotsman, a Welshman, Chinese, Greeks, Rus siacs of Europe and Asia, Japanese and a Filipino Chinese, Russian and

Mr. Brutton quoted a case of a

a year for a week only. The tem- Japanese evidence bad to be inter-permanent building, a fair used once preted into English and the Russian

the bullet.

with his witnesses.

BASEBALL

LOCALS BEAT NIPPON CLUB.

Pace bad the Nippon Club eating out of his hand on Saturday, and the

Hongkong baseball team ran away with the game. The final score was 16 to 1, the Japanese tears being unable to score until tro were down in the last innings.

A married woman, Tso Kwan, who sat in one of the front seats at the theatre that night, told what she saw. Shecould not identify the accused

The Hongkong nine played error- something at the stage.

less ball behind Pace and hit Sagase Defendant, instead of questioning without difficulty when hits counted. as the man who stood up and pointed

show at all. I did not murder him.question as to who would win, but simply a problem as to how many this witness, said "I was not in the After the first innings it was not a

have no spite against him."

Li Pui, one of the actors, saw a runs the local team would run up Next Saturday the local team meets saw the man running. Accused was man stand up, beard the shut fired, before the nine innings were played. that man.

| McLaurie's Colts from the destroyer Rizal The Sailors have won two

and Japanese into Chinese. Finally, porary occupants were robbed and it the Assessor's notes of the whole was beld to be burglary. In a case side, it had been held that the pre- case had to be read over and translatoriginating from Queen Street, Cheap ed into Greek.

sence of watchmen, only. did not

Lan Hung, aged 16, an apprentice constitute premises a dwelling. Ia the case of the Taiyat other employes actor, said he sat on the siege when games, but dropped the last one to than a watchman slept in the theatre. his colleague was shot. He saw it the locals by the score of 16 to 7, The servant's quarters, across the all. He mimicked the actions of the and Mac says his gang. are out for road, accommodated six cut of nin: standing man, pulling the gun, raising blood. employes; the others slept in the it, levelling it, and so on. He rather

thrilled the Court. theatre.

The hearing resumes this after- noon.

men. that he lives on the Peak. and that he has two children who

According to the Harlow native use those recreation grounds. Does

press, a well-known member of foreign it not look as if, in denying cis o banking circles bas estimated that chidren what the Telegraph thinks China is at present encumbered with is necessary for the bealth and roa-more than $3,000,000,000 of national fort of the 20 to 30 children who use debis. Seven-tenths of her total these playgrounds. he has at least annual revenue goes to meet military shown a disinterested and public expenses, in addition to which there spirit that should be applauded rather are various extras on account of civil war. On account of this the Chinese than condemned?

Government has already lost its ability to pay off foreign debts, and, if the present series of disturbances Continues, it will be obliged to declare itself bankrupt at the end of June of the 14 year of the Republic, ie, tour years hence.

We do.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

who Aming te passengers sailed by the CF.O.S.s.s. "Monteagle" today was Surcon Lt. Ceramer.

Thompson.

The management of the World Theatre have introduced two special Matinees every Tuesday and Thurs day for children.

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DEFUNCT COMPANY.

SUMMARY COURT PROCEEDINGS.

The Public Health and Buildinas Ordinance, 1903, at p. 1474, said

YELLOW FEVER PERIL,

CEYLON DOCTOR URGES PROMPT LEGISLATION.

Domestic building' means building constructed, used or adapted to be used, wholly or partly, for human babitation, but does not include any building where caretakers obly, not exceeding two in number pass the LADY ANGELA FORBES FLANS received in the island that there was

night." Mr. Brutton submitted that this clause brought the theare, since people slept there, within the de finition of a dwelling.

FLYING NOBLE-WOMAN.

HER MEMOIRS.

Last year when information was.

a sertous outbreak of yellow fever in Central America the Medical depart. cent expressed fear that the disease- There is a new flattering in the might find its way to Ceylon as con. dovecotes of English society, for an-ditions here are said to be peculiarly other famous woman has announced favourable for its spread.

A-friend-from. Central America she is writing her reminiscences.

MAY BE FRANK.

The Magistrate, however, demurr ed to a local ordinance being prayed in aid of the common law of bur- giang.

Ard she knows all there is to know writing to a Ceylon doctor has stated the little "chroniques that yellow fever has broken out- Mr. Brutton also mentioned cases about ACTION AGAINST PARTNERS, to show that if a man was found on scandaleuses" of high life. She is again in Central America. It is premises it was up to him to explain Lady Angela Forbes, novelist, shop-understood that the disease has pol himself. The prosecution was not keeper, dog breeder, chicken farmer, yet become serious, the present being bound to prove felonious intent.

sportswoman and clever amateura mild outbreak.

The Doctor while conversing with Rice prices in Shanghai showed

Mr. F. E. Nash for the defence actress, and she is related to half the

Lady Millicent Hawes,a Ceylon Observer representative held it is not true that all our Sanitary a slight tendency during the past few

urged that occupation by the pro- peerage. anspectors are such experts as al days toward an increase. This, no

In the Summary Court on June 27 prietor or occupier-not his trade formerly the Duchess of Sutherland, out a rather pessimistic view. He and the Countess of Westmoreland was almost confident that the disease that. So far as that claim goes, even doubt, is due to the fact that the

for $483:38 in favour of Alexander

The Magistrate decided that mere, are her sisters and Lord Rosslyn would before long spring up in the I cadet who may be pitchforked storm interfered with the coming of last judgment was entered by consent servants-was the essential.

has more the rice boats. into the post of H.S.D.

Ross, trading as Alex. Ress and Co., sleeping on the premises was not is ber brother. Lady Warwick is her island. When asked whether he was able to show facts to support his against the Tin Cheong Co, and Hol sufficient to constitute the picture half-sister.

statement, our informant remarked: technical knowledge than many of

Aquantity of miscellaneous

"It is a well-known fact all over them. to say nothing of his superior |

for breach of contract. The amount a dwelling house, it was impossible;

- Her book, if it is anything like as the world that the spread of yellow intelligence. The China Mail, as goods comprising rubber hose, iron wai Hong, as managing partner, theatre a dwelling house. Not being

steel

to commit a burglary therein. The

frank as Mrs. Asquith's for instance, fever is due to the prevalence of the These mos all its readers should know, has no pipe fittings, engine parts.

This morning. Mr. F. C. Jenkin, defendant must be discharged. admiration for the cadet system.w.re. rivets, etc, will be sold by originally claimed was $883.38.

A request that the defendant should should make piquant reading. "I do stegomyia mosquito. representing Mesurs. Alex. Rors and and has frequently said unkind things Messrs. Lammert Bros. at public

auction to-morrow morning.

Co., appeared before the Puisme be bound over to keep the peace was not intend," she tells me, to compete quitoes are, now to be found in with Margot or Colonel Repington abundance in the island. Conditions about it. But even a Cadet may

Judge, Mr. J. R. Wood, to apply for declined. on be a good man, an able man, and a

A pretty wedding took place at fave to issue execution against the

Mr. Nash: It is an attempt to but there is no doubt that many peo-in Ceylon are especially favourable for Our evening contemporary

exactly how much or how little dis- facts are quite sufficient for any Tricar published a letter signed valuable public servant, and we do the Union Church, Shanghai, the

cretion is to be shown:

person to draw a conclusion that Salud," which was perhaps a mis not allow our general prejudice Rev. A. N. Rowland, MA, ofheist following persons as partners in the prevent a malicious presecution which Dle highly placed are wondering the spread of the disease. These two Mere are asking if she will tell the before long yellow fever will find its przt for "Salad," us the writer against the system to make us unjustling. when Winifred Esmee, tidest Tin Cheong Co. Wong Ping Sun, is coming forward.

WATER POLO. true story of the canteen which she way here." Yeung Chung Shu, alias Yeung

Continuing the doctor remarked sems very green. We had occasion to redividuals who are giving satis daughter of the late Mr. Frederick compradore of the F. & U.S. N Co..

ran at Le Touquet during the war. Hopkins and Mrs Hopkins, of Shang-

It was established there, where she that the only way to check an opt- a little while ago to point out the faction.

Connaught Road Central, and Chan As regards the incident behind hai, was married to Mr. Reginald Ching Shek, ship chandler, of 57,

LEAGUE CONTESTS COMMENCE. had a charming villa, for the use of break was to destroy the stegomyis. sillyness of a letter, patlished over

Boxall this, we have made a few enquiries, Hudson, son of the thir. Robert Chock Ping, of 62, Staunton Street.

British officers, and it ended in What should be done to check the the same signature: and are

The bearing of one case only was:

At the V.R.C. bath last evening the question in the House of Lords. If increase of these mosquitoes was not convinced that there is mure reason and find that it has been misre-J. Felgate, of Kansas City, Mo..

proceeded with this morning, namely behind the Government's ban on presented. Our contemporary says

The China Times reports another that against Wong Ping Sun who was first series of games under the all the stories that were current at to allow empty tins and other recep it means that when a Sanitary

auspices of the Water Polo League the time were true, there were some tacles to lie about the compounds. officials writing to the Press than

re-Inspector is sent out to make a attempt by the Government to raise represented by Mr. D. J. Lewis.

Mr. Jenkin said that for three years was commenced. we were formerly willing to

There were two contests, the first very unconventional "doings" there. He went on to say that the Sanitary ua report on any proposal affecting the money in Shanghai. This time cognize. This letter. being in

the canteen and sent Angela and her thing without the co-operation of the deserved attack on the very efficient Colony's health his report will count Peking is said to have sent down a the Tin Cheong Firm carried on

representative with debenture bonde business at No. 42 Lyndhurst Terrace. game-RGA. Y. HMS. "Foxglove At any rate, the War Office shut up department was too small to do any and personally worthy head of the for nought, unless it happest of the 1st Year of the Republic In December of 1919. pr January of ending in win for the gunners by fair and aristocratic helpers back to people. He was of opinion that it Sanitary Department, in circumst-coincide with the opinion of his having a face value of $9,000,000, 1920 the firm sought to increase its 15 goals to fill The second game Blighty." Though there was much was time for Government to pass anses grossly misrepresented, had chief." That is nonsense. It counts and Revende Stamps of the face activities and a proposal was accepted Club Lusitano v.2/Wits.water talk about an inquiry, the matter was legislation and until this was done the people would not make any efforts, stupid for all it is worth, then considered in value of $6,000,000. These are said to form a larger concern to be called more warmly contested and the

··· BROTHER FAMOUS.

to keep their compounds clean. If its mischief aggravated by a "leader" with which the paper relation with other evidence and con- to have been disposed of, to American the Tin Cheong Company Additional military representatives were this

The following games will be played Lord Rosslyn, her brother, has this was done, then there was no fear followed next day. In this the de-riderations by the said chief, whose and Japanese purchasers, for $2,500,- money was procured for the purpose time defeated by 5 goals to nil

and after a short interim during which the business was carried ori in this evening WA been an actor, author and news of there being an outbreak of yellow partmental head was amusingly opinion, in turn, in reviewed by 000.

5.15 pm VRC HMS, paper man. He has twice tried to fever in the island. described as autocratie, when all officials still higher up, and weighed,

The marriage took place at Holy temporary premises the new.com.

has been married three times and América and probably the route it had done was to point out very for what it is worth, in relation with

would take. would be via the Philip- midly to Mr. Alabaster that some other things they know. This ac- Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, of Mr. pany started boxiness at the address "Tamar 5.45 pm, United Athletic break the bank at Monte Carlo and It was now prevalent in Central

The RHKYC. have withdrawn divorced twice, ch

Clever, witty and popular, Lady pines, Hongkong, China, the Straits, body must be head, and that it was, cusation against the Head of the Charles Dempster Whitton and Miss of the old firm. The new company, Club 7. HMS. Foxglove."

Mr. Jenkin called the accountant and the Navy have entered teams as it is, undesirable to cite the opinions Sanitary Department could be made Jenny Macgregor MacNeillage, of however ceased to do business.

house in which Dickens wrote "David of subordinates that are taken merely with more justice against the Governor Alios, Scotland, who arrived from

KEEP TT HANDY. to asist those higher up in coming himself, who every day is considering Home on the str. "Ascanius." The to produce the books of the company from H.M.S.Tamar" and HMS, Angela lives, when in London, in the India and ultimately Ceylon. to a decision. Mr. Alabaster as the reports and recommendations of bridegroom is a well known Shang and himself read a portion of the "Foxglove" ng mg

1sttacks of disepoes. Chamberlain's be played at the VXE. An admis, new, craze at a private dance by lawyer would admit that no judge "highly trained and qualified" subhai resident having been for many prospectus in order to prove that the All of the matches will, by kind Copperfield. She is noted for ber

('ate international) Cotipa Spinning company, e bound by the obiter dicts of an ordinates, who, by the Telegraph a cagineer of the Japan China defendant was a partoes of the permissica of the Club committee, original ways, and once started TMMEDIATE it is necessary in expert witness. He considers all the argument, bust know more about and weaving to The Ceremony Evidence relating to both the old sin charge of 25 cis for service having an order bar with real beer Colid; and Dierboss Remedy should erideuse, and concludes accordingly. it than he does. It is his job to was conducted by the Rev. C. E. firm and the new Company was then men and 50 cts. for non-members is for those who liked it—and plenty always be on band. For sale by

being made. The Sanitary Inspector in this! weigh and consider and to decide Spencer, Sub-Dean of the Cathedral.

called.

discreetly dropped.

did.

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