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WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1922.

A SMALL BOY.

· WITH A BIG IMAGINATION.

SENDS POLICE ON WELD COOSE

CHASE.

A little Chinese boy, with a vivid imagination, gave the police to end of trouble for nothing yesterday.

He left his home in Wes: Paint at 9 o'clock yesterday morning to go to school sad was not seen again. His anxious parents reported his dis appearance to the police when he had not returned as late as 9 p.m. Detectives searched ligh and low. bat no trace of the missing boy cocid be foezd. As the search was about to be given up as hopeless, the boy returned home, at about midnight. He gave an exciting account of how he was kidnapped.

"CHINESE IN BURMA.

SPECIAL CABLE.

TRUSTED WHEREVER THEY GO.

art

and

The

PRINCE AT PENANG.

[Ching Mail SPECIAL]

SINGAPORE, May 23. The Prince landed at Penang to-

He received an enthusiastic

He sails for Colombo to-night.

PEERAGE ADVISER.

CLAIMS.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MANILA TYPHOON.

NO WORD FROM GENERAL WOOD.

BUT UTFICIALS NOT ALARMED,

(Reuter's Pacific Service.) ̈ ̧

Manila, May 24. No word has been received from Gezeral Wood whose yacht is now two, days overdue. The wireless cannot locate him. Officials state they are not alarmed, however,

No loss

of life was reported Feiterday from the typhoon. Teleg-

rupted in the provinces.

LAUNCH STRIKE.

OFFICIAL DENTAL OF GUILD ASSERTIONS.

The Chinese in Burmas mostly come from the Provinces of Fokkien, Canton, and Yunnan, saya a corre- spondeat of the Rangoon Times. Those who come from Fokies are day. the most wealthy and enterprising, as some of them have passed through reception. the Straits Settlements and have experienced the advantages of British rule. The settlers from Canto: are mostly artisans and contractors,

'admired mnch who esteemed by the officers of the Public Works Depar.ment, and who ROMANTIC MEMORIES OF OLD raphic communication is still inter- have amassed great fortunes. Yunnanese are found in large num bere in Mandalay and in other parts

Dr. John Horace Round, LL:D. of Upper Burma, where ther founded who bas resigned from the position of prosperous settlements in the reigns Honorary Historical Adviser to the He was returning home about of Burmese Kings. The Chines from p.m., from school, be said, when bal these different Frovinces speak diffe Crown in Peerage cases is recognised wet a man who invited him to go to rest dialects which are not metually the greatest living authority on matters relating to the Peerage. He a teashop to drink tea. As the man intelligible and they are obliged to was well dressed and kind, he accepted make use of the Burmese language in is 66 and has lived at Brunswick- terrace, Hove, Susser, all his life. the invitation. He was treated the cours of their inter-com-

His books, "Studies in Peerage and the rorally by kind stranger, munication. The medium of com- bat

the "ta had been mannication may be different but their Family History," 1900; and "Fearage drugged and presently be felt faint character and motives are almost the and Pedigree," 1910, are recognised

suthoritative works. and tid not know anything more. same. They possess tigh

He has been described by an When be recovered in the trance, qualities of courage, honrats, and he fcrrd himself in an unused trathfulness, and their word is as torney-General as the only master

bond. They

trasted of his craft. matsbed on the hillside above the their slaughter house is Kesarde Town. wherever they go, and whenever ungcarded bat the Burmese villager wish to found a matsbed dvor Was locked new village in the country side, they the outside. He broke a hole in the invariably icrite s Chinaman to come matting on the side of the matshed along with them so that he may be and slipped out. The rest war com their banker, the purchaser of their paratively easy and he found his way produce, home with little difficulty.

He

Was

the

sre

the

purveyor of their requirements, and the connecting link between the town and the

t-

During the last 20 year he has advised in all claims to peerages "I first came to the assistance of thei Crown," he said, "when the office of Lord Great Chamberlain was troub ling the House of Lords. This was in 1902, when the Duke of Atholl, the Marquis of Cholmondeley, the Earl of The parents took the boy to the

Ancaster, and Earl Carrington were contesting the right to bold that office. polier, and he repeated his story to country. them. Detectives were again sent out, The Chinese character was never This is a quaint fendal office created the time to keep watch tear the shown up to conspicuously as during 200 years ago. There was a question matshed and catch the kidnapper when the strenuous and troublous days as to who was entitled to it. Ioffered he came for his victim. The detectives of the British annexstion of Upper my advice, and it was decided to leave returned about hali an hour later and Burma, extending from 1865 to 1895. the office as it was. reported that they could not find any No Chinaman was ever found in the matched in the locality the boy rebel ranks, and no Chinaman chased had indicated. The bor and with the bounds or ras with the bare. bis :arents were seat for. Nor was any Chinaman ever killed or The truth of the fail's story was assassinated by the rebels or dacoits, stral taxed and finally he adimitted though he might be living charmed in tears that it was a pack of lies. and unprotected in a lonely village

He had gone with a number of in the countryside, other boys, he said. amid sobs.

show st

to

MEAL OF NAILS.

X-RAYEQUEL TO A BET.

THE COUNTRY'S TRADZES.

Chinaman

"An interesting claim in which I have been concerned and is now for the third time being discussed is that of two ladies who are jointly claiming the earldoms of Warwick and Salisbury. The former was created by the King-maker during the Wars of the Roses and is the oldest earldom estant, and the claim is likely to prove the most interesting of modern

tires.

...

The H.K. General Chamber of Com- merce, which was accepted as inter- mediary between the launch owners and the strikers, and has already dispute, denies the truth of the a large dossier connected with the advertisement published by the Association of Launch Engineers and Coxswains, especially the statement rhat the owners gave no sincere teply to overtures.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS,

· NOTICE.

THE Os and Stations of the Chinese Maritime Customs for 1

Kowloon and District will be closed to public business on WEDNESDAY next, the Slet instant (Dragon Boat Festival;

C. THORNE, Commissioner of Chinese Customs,

Kowloon and District. York Buildings, Hongkong Mag 23, 1922.

TO LET.

LET. BOARD AND REST TDENCE: Opportunity caters for Bacheler to share with one other furnished at best locality Kowloon. Replies to Box No. 1360 c/o China Mail" office.

OFFICIAL NOTICE.

PROPOSED TO CHANGE A

'SHIP'S NAME.

the! Then he was As far as hocesty is concerned a Keshing Theatre.

"A peerage claim that created afraid to go bome and face his Burman would trust a parente, se he invented the story to sooner than any other foreigner. much interest was that in 1913 of the save himself from a drubbing. He That is the reason why the whole only daughter of the late Bernard received the drabbing al: the same, trade of the country is in the hands Lord Petre, then a girl of 12 in which right in the station. Beth parents of Chinamen, and why the freight she sccceeded and became Lay took a hand in the last act of the carried by the railway and river stea Furnival, who in September 1919 drams, and the bay was led away mers mostly belongs to them. At suddenly disappeared from har Len every paddy centre on the railway don address without telling all her home crying bitterly.

line from Prome to Rangoon, and from relatives where she was guing. This Rangoon to Manday or to Martaban caused some anxiety as to what bad KWOK LAI PAN, of No. 33 Con- the conspicuous figure, who collects happened, until it became known tha: naught Road Central, Hongkong, bereby give notice that in conse the produce of the country, is that of she had gone on a trip to Scotland, the Chinaman. Again, wherever one)

"Often a decision has turned on quence of uniformity with the combina- tion of names of the other vessels owned may travel, in the chief towns of the question whether the son who, by me, I have applied to the Board of Burma, the Chinese quarter is always for instance ran away with the house Trade, under Section 47 of the Merchant the best situated, most brillantly maid ever married her. Many baron Shipping Act 1894, in respect of the A man who wa- found in a collaps-lighted, and is the most wealthy and ics at present in abeyance depend on ship Tim Shan" of Hongkong Oficial Number 112220 of gross tonnage 52.08 ed coalition suffering from stomach prosperous portion of the town. that point. pains outside

Surrey the

The Chinese population of Burma

"Another interesting case was that kaas, hitherto owned by me for permis- Theatre. Blackfriars, S.E., told may not be much more than s

known as the claim of the beautiinion to change her name to HEE LEE" and to have her registered in at Guys Hospital an extraordinary hundred thousand, but like the nursemaid. This was in 1914, in the the new name at the port of Bangkong story of a lost bet. He had tried to Parsis of Western India, they form a hearing of claims to the baronies of as owned by me. swallow six in. nails but could concreting link between the

Dyssant, Fitzwasyn, and Martin, în Any objections to the proposed European scd their Anistic fellow which the petitions of Viscount Gage change of name must be sent to the The man, Charles Rogers, 25, an citizers; atd their intelligence, and Sir R. B. S. Wrey were opposed Registrar of Shipping or Harbour Master unemploved bargee. of 14, Ordnance honesty, wealth and enterprise have by Mr. R. J. Wild as grandson of Sirst Bongkong within seven days from street, Chatham, had tramped to conferred upon them a definite status Bourchier Falk Wrey. Sir Bourchier, the appearance of this advertisement London in search of work. He said in the counsels of the country. For it was stated, fell in love with and Dated at Hongkong this 23rd day of that he felt no pain until three days character, industry and ability, they married s most beautiful Irishwoman, after bis strange mesi.

stand conspicuous among the alien a nursemaid. That has never been

mata

only five.

-J

His story was received with "ojourner" in the Province. When acepticism at the hospital. X-my ex-the Reform Scheme comes into ope amination, however, proved its truth. ration at the beginning of 1923, it is The men with whom Rogers made very probable that the Chinese Com- the bet were, he states, strangers tomunity will be privileged to elect two him. They offered him £1 if be

more representatives to the swallowed the six nails. When be Legislative Council. failed to do so they refused to pay anything.

WOLF HUNT BY AIR.

PACKS SPOTTED" FROM AN AEROPLANE.

THE FUTURE.

decided."

A QUEER FISH.

CIRCULAR SILVER BODY AND BED SNOUT.

May 1929.

KWOK LAI PAN,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

The SS. "WRAY CASTLE”

Optional Cargo will be forwarded antees notice to the tontrary be gives before 24th inst

No claims will be admitted after the

From NEW YORK.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are here- by informed that all Goods The late Mr. Grattan Geary, the

A fiah of a species hitherto un-being landed at their risk into the Editor of the Bombay Gazette, who

Godown of the Hongkong and Kowloon visited Burma in 1885, has deliberate known to science, caught by a Ja-Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, ly recorded that the future of Burus panese fisherman 13 miles of shore at whence, and/or from the wharres de belongs to men of the Chinese race a depth of 1,300 feet, is on exhibition livery may be obtained. He is the anther of a book called at Honolulu, and is exciting great

Burima Alter the Conquest" and at interest. Wolves having proved very pages 22 and 23 of that publication, The specimen weighs 1501b. and is destructive in the arighbourhood of occurs the following statement: fat and almost circular. Silver pre McDonald, Karsa, U.S.A... az exten-There is nothing in this to frighten dominates in the colcaring of its body, give tunt was organised with the aids Chinaman, who is so baabful gene with its fics and anout of scarlet, and

doreal, about 18 of two seroplanes from the aerodrome rally when abroad that he lives a life the at Beaver City (Febriskal about 75 of single blessedness. He marries a ches long, spotted with white. The be presented to the Undersigned on or Burmese girl, and the children ares head is mottled with dark grey and before the 10th gras, or they will not be The hunters on the ground were great imrovement on the Burmese black, and the eyes are round and signaled to constantly by the pilote males. They inherit industry from about 4 inch in diameter. of the seroplanes as they "spotted" both parente and grow up models of Dr. C. H. Edmondson, ichthyologist movements by the rolves.

hard working and thrifty citizens. at the University of Hawaii, says that So successful was the co-operation To them according to men of foresight the specimen is not classified in any of theee "herial hunters" that it is will belong the future of Barma.". available scientific work. The £sh suggested that aeroplanes should be

There is, no doubt, that there is a will be presented to the Bishop used on an organised scale in extermin-great future for the Chinese race in Museum in Honolulu. sting destructive animals.

miles away.

FOR YOUR WIFE AND YOU.

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in-

responsibility by founding and Yannanese or Mandarin dialect as the As a remedy for one of woman's most endowing schools for the education of common dialect er lingua francs for troublesome aliments Pinkettes the dainty little laxatives, are perfection the rising generation at Hengoen and the thres Communities is still under They are equally helpful for me. Aaj other chief towns, like Mandalay, discussion gectly as sature theý dispel

PINKETTES

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dozen teachers have determined to be loyal and submissive been imported from "Peking to the British raj, which is the Govern University. At Mandalay, there ment of the country of their adoption. is a school, founded by each of For obowing such loyalty, they expect. Druggists everywhere sell Bukettes, the three Communities, namely, the no reward whatsoever, because the ar por free at 80 cents the rial from Dr Yannsnes, Fukkienese, and Can Paz Britannica in itself, already con- Williams' Medicine Co., 96 Ezechuan Head, Shanghai:

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constipation.bey.care disordered liver.

ioaness, sick headaches, pimples, for

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Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 30th inst. will be subject to rent.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS

Q.

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

DARTICULARS "and Conditions of

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And

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On view on Monday. Termin :- Cseh on delivery.

HUGHES & HOUGH,

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Hongkong, May 24, 1998.

די

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