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AMAH CHARGED WITH AIDING: ROBBERS:

Conspiring with others, not in custody, to obtain the sum of BO sovereigns, one $5 note and goven of pieces of jewellery, the property her mistress, Maria Rosa, living on the second Boor of No. 36, Jacob operered raganet, an amah Sassoon Street, Yaumati, was the

named Leong Mai before Magistrate Lindsell yesterday afternoon.

naturally took what, wo British had Nations, in Wilson's words, s

is There are foreigners who still say takon and put in the Nanking Treaty to ae that every people in of Japanese justice in Japan what of 1843. That there was nothing new the world shall choose its own masters the Daily Press now says of Yet we or peculiarly Bolshevistic in our and govern its own destinies, mot as Chinese justice in China. previous observations on extra-we wish, but as they wish. Perhaps consented to waive our claims to tornitoriality may easily be demon the thrill with which we heard those extra-territoriality in Japan. Why? AN atrated by turning up history. words in 1919 is already forgotten. Is it possible that there is more than For instance, Consul Alcock, in the even by those who applande. But one answer, and that we can admit Correspondence relative to the Earl they are words that shall not die. that one answer without a blush of of Elgin's apccial Missions to China Boh Lloyd George and Balfour shame? Japan was strong. China is and Japan, 1857-1859, vol. xxxiii. echo them.. All over the world weak." - pp 54-61, covers the point. Consul eyes lit up because of them, and To that the D. P. says nothing is

SHANGHAI, November 17. Alcock was one of us. He defended many of us began to live thencefor-farther from the truth," and proceeds The Chinese General Chamber of the fair interests of British commerce ward with a new and ennobling pur; to tell us that the Powers gratified Commerce held a

of stenough rose. Apparently, the Deity Press Japan in that matter because they the purpose of inaugurating the last night for to report to our Home government writer must have been asleep, were satisfied that Japanese laws etc., that the worthless chamcter of a or otherwise unconscious at the time. warranted them in so doing," What? Chinese and foreign famine relief com- numerous gathering of foreigners of It is hopeless, and takes far too Without any arguments, for and mittee to respond to the appeal for all nations; undor no effective control, much space, to try and pin the Daily against! It is suggestio falsithe Hupsh, Anhwei, Kiangsu, Che-

Ou the night of November 13, the is a national reproach as well as a Press to its own words, which it again to ignore the bitter controversy kiang and Shantung flood sufferers. accused reported to the police that public calamity. They dispute the denies whenever their error or falsity of that period, when the present field of commerce with honester men, is exposed. There was no dishonesty writer was for abolition, just as General Ho Feng ling, the Defence about 9 p.m. during the absence

of her ...mistress and convert privileges of access and in

analogy of

the Sinn he is now. Doubtless to this the Commissioner presided. An influential house, she opened the door to put trade into means of fraud and viol-Fein S a de facto government, cultured and gentlemanly person who Chinese and foreign committee was out the house refuse when two men, ence." He gives examples, and then If it was B false analogy, favours the Daily Press with its worst

then one of our illustrations went leading articles will retort that the appointed. "Contempt for allChinese authority, wrong, that is all. But we maintain present writer must have been a and disregard of inherent rights, that we correctly represented the Bolshevik before Bolshevism was babitual infraction of treaty stipula- | spirit of the Daily Press argument, as invented. This claim may be con- tions, licence and violence wherever analogous to that of Shylock, and we filently made on our side that the the offscum of the Europan ask honest men to look at these present writer has no axe to grind, no nations found accers, and peace-words, clipped from the D.I.,' and to selfish interests to fight for. Otherwise ful people

plunder say which of us spoke falsely, we who the China Mail would not publish

When asked to plead yesterday, such were the first-fruits of [extra-said they said it, or they who now say his arguments. If the Daily Press ." The Circle," Mr. Somerset the accused said that on the night in territoriality] and time only served to they didn't. Their words were: "Wo writer can declare and convince us Maugham's three-act play, furnished increase their growth."

take our stand entirely on the fact that he is equally disinterested as the vehicle for some very fiue acting came to the house and asked her to question a man named Lau Hing that the agreement was made with regards concessions etc. we shall then by the members of the Warwick open the door. This she did and be the de facto authorities in China. If have to search for other reasons for Comedy Company at the Theatre came in and sat down for a few the de facto government of the day his extraordinarily mean shifts and Royal last night. The piece tells the minute".

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AT THE THEATRE.

WARWICK COMEDY-GOY.

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one armed with a dagger, sprang on her from the gloom of the staircase, drove her into the kitchen and bound and there gagged her. The men thes ransacked the Hat, she asserted, and atole the property mentioned in the charge, besides $10 worth of her own property.

The treaty (1858) which extended this concession to cover all but tenure Ltd. of land-carrying extra-territoriality

all over China instead of confining it at Cantou made a bargain which was tricks in this controversy. That is story of Lady Catherine Cheney, who not in at the time. Presently the . Her mistress wae to defined settlements, was, like the not as good as its successors think it strong language, and lest it be replied leaves her husband for Lord Porteous, man asked her if her mistress had any other, extracted by force.

might have been, it affords no warrant that we have based it merely on a deserting a five-year old boy, Arnold, valuables. When she replied that she Sr Robert Hart, who, if not a or justification for the repudiation of suggestio falsi (which might be in- who grows up into a decidedly did not know, he broke in the cubicle wholly unbiassed witness, was cor- the cout act. We expect of govern- advertent) we must point out his priggish type, but marries a very door and ransacked the place.. ̈ ́? tainly not a Bolshevik, has many mente that in the honouring of con- remarkable recklessness of statement charming young lady, whom the

Maria Rosa, a Christian Chinese references to extra-territoriality in tracts sigued, sealed and delivered, Consular jurisdiction," he says, audience meet for the first time three hie well-known book, "These from they will be as honest as private in-was abolished in Japan nearly years after her narriage. It is at this lady said she had lived in the house the land of Sinim." Its real signific | dividuals.”

twenty years ago, when Japan was point that the principal action of the for the past three months, ever since ance, he pointed out, was detrimental, If we had no right to inage Sian far from being regarded as a strong play takes place, for, bored with her

she came from Macao. The accused and "a serious derangement in China's Tein as a de facto government "of the Porrer in a naval and military sense." husband, Elizabeth Cheney becomes

whom she had brought with her imm affairs." On page 146 he writes: "Until day," what light has the D.P. to The fact is that the long and bitter attached to a young planter home Macao, had been in her employ for it is withdrawn there will be no speak of Canton as de facto "success controversy was settled, and a Radical from the FM.S. on leave. Even with nearly five months. The witness sold assured dwelling at ease no real ars" of the people who made the deal? government conceded all the Japanese the example of Porteous and Lady she had a tin hox containing 50- welcome for foreign interosuse. We might remind the D.P. of its claims, after the world had been im- Kitty before her, and beedless of the gold coins, one 35 note and 2016 Restore jurisdiction, and the feeling own recent epigram, that abuse is no pressed by Japan's efficient display of warning of her husband's father and jewellery at the loot of her bed. It. of the responsibility to protect as argument, and that it is not necessary naval and military strength against of Lady Kitty herself, Elizabeth also contained some rubbish such as well as the appreciation of intercourse to call your opponent a fool if you China. This might not impress, the slopes with Teddy Laton. There the shavings and odds and ends of cloths will at once love up to a higher can prove him one. Our difficulty is world as much now as it did then, play ends, somewhat abruptly, leav. placed there to mislead thieves. The plane."

that it will not accept its own words perhaps, but we happen to remember, ing the audience to wonder whether box was always locked. Before going It is extra-territoriality that makes as proof, but prefers to eat them. as a working journalist, that there was the same fate awaits the young couple out at 5.30 p.m., on the 15th, she the Chinese dislike us, and if we are Will we be wrong now in suggesting that strong impression at the time. as befell Forteous and Lady Kitty handed the locked box to the axial fair we cannot wonder at it. Many that its position is this that while the Incidentally, Professor Chamberlain, The acting was very effective all for safe keeping, fu always had been of our people, knowing their rights" Kwangsi officials who sold the Cassel in an article on the subject, said: round but Miss Gertrude Godart, who her custom. She did not tell the under these treaties, gratuitously and Concession were a de facto government, Japan's marvellous successes (in the had the part of Lady Catherine her to understand that it was some amah what it contained but gave offensively showed contempt for the the present Canton Government war with China] made resistance to Cheney, and Miss Joan Mayne, who lex loci which, written or auwritten (accused by it of an "unlawful act" any of her demands increasingly sustained the dificult role of Eliza-thing of value which must be guarded was respected by all around them and in repudiating that concession) is not? difficult." And so far from there has beth, were notably successful.. carefully. When she returned watching them. It is so one-sided an If Sinn Fein is "an organization in ing been a general recognition that To-night the Company will appear had been forced open and the valu

late at night she found that the box. arrangement, moreover. While the revolt against the recognized Govern- her laws, etc., were satisfactory (cer in The Law Divine." foreigner travelling or residing in ment," from whom no one can expect tain codes had not even been publish- China is not amenable to Chinese a valid contract, what is the Cantoned) this authority anys."from the point authority, the Chinese government is Government, from which the Daily of view of patriotic Englishmen, held responsible for the safety of his Press expects lawful acts"? If any the residents in Japan almost un- person and property. This is an body is weak in the matter of analogies, animously regard the British Foreign If one were asked to define the obligation which no other country we would like this D.P. writer's head Office with contempt, for having meaning of The Law Divine," it undertakes, even where they subject examined first, before submitting our allowed itself to be so grossly misled is highly probable that one would be the foreign_visitor to their own own. If the present Government and soundly beaten.” As we have somewhat nonplussed. Mr. H. V. authority. Full responsibility and co at Canton .. has not yet estab- sach an unscrupulous opponent to Esmond the popular author of the authority is what extra-territoriality lished its claim to be the Government deal with let us add that we quote play bearing this title has answered old curtain and $100 in cash in a means. It actually impedes our foreiga of the Republic of China" (D.P. those words, got in approval of them, the definition in his delightful comedy cash rex on top of the wardrobe, trade, because but for it the Chinese words) why expect lawful acts from but to show that the DP. suggestion most satisfactorily. Plays come but luckily this was not touched. would let us go anywhere in China. it, why chide it for "unlawful acts?" that an automatic abolition of extra- and go yearly, and just a few create Replying to the Magistrate, the Their restrictions (unheard of As to our alleged misapprehension territoriality occurred when it was sufficient interest to remain with us witness said that she had saved the iu their earlier history) are of the position re Mui-tsai sale con-"warranted" is simply a grotesque long after their contemporaries have sovereigns from time to time. Every- direct and immediate answer to tracts, we can only suspect that our perversion of history. Its skating faded from sight and memory. Some time her husband came bome she got our claims. in this matter. opponent has no eye or ear for irony, over our allusion to the current of us will remember, the first pro- more. It had been her habit for Wen Hsiang, regent for Tung Chih We refer the public to a multiplicity opinion of the administration of duction of "The Law Divine quite years whenever she got dollars, to

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ables extracted. The door of her cubicle had been burst open. The accused was in the flat. She looked sick" but was not frightened. She did not seem a bit concerned and refused to speak,

The witness added that she had other money in the house at the time,

$700 in $100 notes tied up in an

Daily Press endeavours to hold us up during his minority, mentioned by of Daily Press "evidence" in its justice as between foreigners and recently at Wyndham's Theatre, the bay sovereigna.ove as Bolshevist propagandists. It is Sir Robert Hart as tone of the ablest, campaign against our Government Japanese, held by foreign residents remarkable success it attained, the A tallyman employed by the sure to call us worse things by friendliest, and most intelligent man- as primarily guilty in this matter there; was as inexcusable as it was, long run it had at that popular Nippon Yusen Kaisha living at No. 33 and by, when we have nailed its darins ever met by foreigners," said; and remind it that, so far from shall we say, typical

theatre, and later on the tour in Park Street, directly behind complsin- cars to the pillory they deserve. ItDo away with your extrater seriously accusing the Government

the provinces, where it is still running ant's residence, said on the tight of pretends to consider our previous ritoriality clause, and your mission of "recognising" slavery, we have criticism "laboured and ineffective," aries and merchants may go where consistently defended it against the

successfully. The author of "The the 13th he was passing through Jacob Law Divine," has given us one of the Sassoon Street on his way home when then laboury ineffertually they please, and settle where they extravagant allegations of the DP.

most natural pictures of English he heard a police whistle. He went through an article of thirteen hundred please; it your missionaries can make and its friends. No intelligent person

home life that it is possible to to No. 36 and tried the door of the words to draw its usual red herrings our people better, that will be our would have described our ironie With complete confidence we could across a plain trail. We will here gain; if your merchants can make reference to that as a misapprehension passengers to Kobe by the Pacific that in watching the progress of the was squatting just inside the door Mr. and Mrs. C. Edgcumbe were imagine. His characters are so real flat. It was not locked, Acoused leave it to the judgment of the public notice such points only as, if ignored money, ours will share in the advant- of the Government's position. to recognize, so glaring is it, the intel- by us, might tend to further its age. But retain it, and we must do

Msil liner Hoosier State."

play each member of the audience Her hands were tied in front of her, lectual dishonesty of the Daily Press deliberate attempts to mislead public our best to confine you and our trouble. When we spoke of no European

gets the impression that they are also her feet, but she was not gagged. individually taking part in the The witness released her Both knots in its so-called "Reply to Criticism" opinion, in the interests of disappointed to the treaty ports." "How much more power being asked for extra-territorial- Among the passengers for Shang-play itself, and it is only were "bows" and were easily untied. yesterday. It read more like legal concessionaires.

intelligently and reasonably that ity, we did hesitate a moment with bai by the Hoosier State were Mr. when the curtain falls leaving them She could have untied them with her chicanery than honest controversy, Thus, the D.P. says: "In his heathen talk sounds than the the case of Turkey in mind, but then Juleon Amold and Mr. Eugene Chen, on the other side that the illusion is teeth if she had wished. more like the quibbling of a lawyer advocacy of the abolition of selfish sophistries of the Christian (1) decided to let the passage go, in the

shattered. The Services are repre- The witness added that there was a with a bad case than the debating of extraterritoriality in China, the Daily Press! It should be noted that belief that no honest reader could be A man of honour. Indeed, it evaded leader-writer of the China Mail is Chinese jurisprudence cannot be ad- misled by it. If the D.P. cares to Our correspondent " Ypres" asks sented by a young Army lad and a towel tied loosely round the accused' reference to our opening demonstra-supported only by Russian Bolsker vanced as quickly as we would insist that Turks are Europeans, of us to state that he will be glad to cheery young Naval officer, both of neck and a piece of firowood was tion of its had faith; and although it vists, who are willing to pay that wish to see it, because such course we must concede the point. receive the names of those supporting whom creato amusing recollections lying on the floor. Accused would could do no other than publish a letter price for official recognition of the foreign contempt. breeds an echo But that does not altogether vitiate his views. Ex-service men should of the alleged rivalry, between the not say anything

state whether they are legionaries or Services. These roles are played by A woman living on the same ficor from Mr. Eugene Chen, calling its at Soviet Government by the Clovers among Chinese subjects too, and the point we were making. tention to the same glaring injustice, ment of China." That is either a lie weakona China's authority over its

Mr. Dudley Howarth and Mr. Tom 88 complainant said she heard a groan Another word about: Bolshevism,

Fenwick respectively in the pre about 9.30 pm. coming from the it offered no excuse or apology to him or an ignorant mistake. Our opponent own people. In the circumstances, and the D. P. writer's mean

sentation of The Law Divine" cubicle opposite. Sho asked "What or to its readers. Instead it appended must make his own election. We sarprising progress has been made attempt to blacken UB with A European lady lost a gold

footnote as impadour and pointless will remind him of a little history-Answering the local Chinese alarm that

It was falsely, bracelet worth $20 on the Canton which will be staged to-night is the matter, have you got a tooth. by the Warwick Comedy Comache There followed sound to the and illogical as a schoolgirl's quarrel not to be found, perhaps, in a law over our new Banishment Ordinance, representing that the arguments for wharf lart night. A cargo coolie pany at the Theatre Royal. Mias door being violently shaken and more some retort might be. In the cream-library

our Governor said on Monday that the abolition were all Chinese, and it found it and landed it over to a Joan Mayne plays the lead Edie La groans, so she blow a whistle. stances, it is a temptation to scho Up to the beginning of the XVI first and obvious answer is that per mentioned the Russians as exemplary European Sergeant who found its Bs Miss Marjory Clark Shriaip, Inspector Murphy said he went Mr. Chen's comment that contra-century, although the foreigners were sons pr pared to behave themselves victims. We were obliged to point owner: The coolie was given a reward and Mr. Thorpe-Mayne Jack La the house about 11.15 pm. The versy becomes impossible with an not always as well behaved as they lawfully had nothing to fear out that several (not one only) of $1 for his honesty

Bas. Misa Gertrude Godart, who stoused was sitting near her bed She opponent who iguores considerations are now, the Chinese were most This answer applios equally well Russian lawyers spoke for aboli

scored such a hit last night in Tho could not speak at first, but finally of intellectual honesty and to de- hospitable and liberal and tolerant to to any foreigner afraid of the abolition. They may be Bolshevists

having sins to take any further notice of it. visitors. All the writers can tion of a right" that began as a ng well as Russians. That The Victoria Recreation Club Circle is also in the cast together told him the story of robbe But that would be to let it continue recall are agreed on this.

Even wron and has never been any

very likely seeing that both olds its first Scratch Regatta of the with Miss Lend Flowerdew Miss, visited the house. Hoe marestricted its programme of mis official positions were open to them, thing else. Our mareirante did very Russian republica ore Bol huvistic, Suitday, December 4 On Friday and deliers.

Beason at. Black Boulder Point on Dorothy Radio Mia Nina Bradley wrists and ankles but found to mark

ight's production of rope having been leading the public, in the interests of The Chinese, in other words, had not well before we got it. They were Thure may be Russians in China who November 25, a subscription dance will be the final one of this play in though there were some light pres cmonflaged Interest, And we may yet camed their reputation for never the habit of waiting for subl. 18 hot Bolshevists, but we haven't will be given at the Club for incubus Hongkong. OSA, who have net song on the wrists, 1DU not ehirk the duty of exposing exclusiveness." This was because protection b for exploiting kete yet head from them. Wo will print

concluded the evidence and it whenever it does that. We the foreigners had not yet and sewe hure

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