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FRIDAY JUNE 9, 1922.

MARY'S MISTAKE”

TER PENALTY OF POLITENESS.

Mary Johnson, a coloured girl, was charged before Magistrate Fraser this morning with soliciting.

She denied the charge.

CARPENTERS WAR.

SEX MONTHS FOR

PARTICIPANTS.

Magistrate Fraser yesterday after noon passed sentence of six months' jail and a fine of $500 or in default,

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Sergeant Enirer of No. 2, Police a further term of six months' hard / drew attention to the fact that it was and particulars.

ELE. the Govertor leaves Hong- kong by the Empress of Russia on Thursday next at noon. At yester day's Council meeting His Excellency labour, on, each of the five Chinese impossible for an Officer Administer rested in connection with the ing the Government to be sworn in until he was three miles outside the carpenters affray in West Point on May 19, when a number of striking

Colony. carpenters severely assaulted those who refused to support theis, causing serious injuries to Teral.

This is a feature of official ap

pointments that is rarely mentioned although, from enquiries made, the point has often cropped up. In some as the Executive Council has had to wait until an official had left the

Station said that he was on duty in Prays Beat in plainclothes at 11 o'clock last night when the defendant accosted him and raked him where he was going. He replied "taking walk" She asked "are you going home 1" and he replied "I had just thought about it.” She then made a certain suggestion to him. He aaked her where she wanted to go, and she at first suggested a tram ride, but, afterwards asked him to take her to lined by Mr. R. E. A. Webster, as long as the governor is in the Bor. The rule seems to be that as Japanese hotel near the Seamen's Institute. He arrested her.

that his clients (two of the injured Colony no officer can be appointed to defendant said that theen) were assaulted by the defendants

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There were three charges preferred against the accused intimidation, assault and disorderly conduct.

The case for the prosecution as out-

Colony before swearing in his succes

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The above named steamer having on Friday, 9th June,

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when seen this morning declined to notified to present their Bills of Lading

counter-signature, Mr. F. G. Vaux, for the defence, discuss what would happen if the for

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sergeant accosted her first and asked while they were at work in the Mes administer the Government. An official! 1992, consignees of cargo are hereby whance andjor from the wharves deli-

very may be obtained. take

Goods not cleared by the 15th

ggested that she should take him/denied the charges, and said that it "Empress "should be delayed around immediate delivery from alongnoe June, 1923, will be subject to rent,

her where she was going. When she said that she was going home he

home but she refused.

He hea suggested going to an "uptown botal," and afterwards invited her to go for a motor car ride; When she refused these overtures, he suggested a tram ride. She at first refused. He was persistent and she eventually agreed. telling him that he must go home afterwards." Perhaps ho had miunderstood. that sentence of hers:

When the tram got to the Post Office, the Sergeant asked her to get out and walk. She said No. If Mr. Patterson sees me it would not be right." He insisted aid she got ont. Then he told her that he was going to take her to see Inspector Patterson.

Magistrate : Why did you speak to him?-He addressed me by name.

You speak to everyone who calls you by name? I can't be rude. I did not know he wanted to "fiz me.'

What were you doing in the streets at that time of night 1-I was just returning from the Eastern Cinema with another girl."..

What happened to the other girl? --He chased her away.

What do you do for a living-1 don't work. I live with my mother in Taihang. She keeps me. made two applications to the Tele phone Company and was told to wait for a vacancy.

to the was purely a case of common assault about Lyemun unbeknown He proposed only to offer the defen Council, as being impracticable. It would however be interesting to know whether an officer sworn to adminis ter the govemment under those arcumstances would really be the man we take him to be.

dants' evidence and would not call say outside witnesses, because, he raid, *there were a number of witnesses against us and practically nobody for

US.”

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AT KOWLOON THEATRE.

admitted that they were carpenters, In their evidence, all five defendants

and one ever admitted that he was a them also admitted that they carried member of the striking guild. Two of sticks tick because he enffered from One said he wanted the weakness in the legs;" while the other said he required a heavy stick for a murder he never committed gets An ex-prirefighter who, transported

they had anything to do with the s box of law books, ads the tomes to "go up bills." All five denied that wrecked on a lonely island along with assault; they merely happened to be from cover to cover and then emerges in the vicinity when the fight occurred. again into society as San Francisco's Mr. Vaux submitted that it was most eminent criminal Lawyer, quite clear that an assault took place sounds as though he would be a but there was no evidence to show picturesque sort of personali- aesult They could not be convicted ferred that his clients took part in that ty. It is

role which, trans from novel to screen,

of intimidation as the charge of loees nothing of its virility as portray intimidation and assault were one and ed by Mahlon Hamilton in Half a been proved against his cliente Kowloon Theatre, the same thing. If anything had Chance," to-night's attraction at the it was only that of disorderly behaviour.

As castaway and cultured gentle man Mahlon Hamilton is responsible and

The Magistrate disagreed, I Lad

describing the thing as a murderous assault of the worst kind," passed the sentence mentioned.

Answering further questions, the defendant admitted that she was "in the life" before but had given it up on her mother's persuasion."

ed.

A fine of $25 or 14 days was impos-

KINEMA NOTES.

"THE LURE OF EGYPT."

TENNIS LEAGUE

A DIVISION,

At present in the A Division, L.R.C. are unbeaten and the only side that looks able to beat them in the C.R.C. They will win the league contest if they beat the C.RO and if they go

down, they will probably the for first place.

Did the spirit of Akhtator, the Christ-like Pharosh of Egypt who dred thirty-three centuries ago, re-

The US.R.C. by reason of their appear on the sands of the Thebian very close victory over the C.R.C., Desert? Did Gondo Koro, a desert have just a chance of joining these mystic and priest, have knowledge two at the Lead The U.S.R.C. have handed down to him through bundreds to meet the E.K.C.C. and if they lose of generations of Egyptians? Or did there they will be quite cat of it. some mystic spiritual communicatica Civil Service, the Club de Recreio exist between himself and the great and the Japanese have so far made a king? These questions, vering ones poor show. in scientific circles to-day,. are the basic moving force of the Federal I. R. C. Fathe featore, "The Lure of Egypt," C. R. O.. which is the attraction at the World U. 8. B. C. Theatre to-day. The story is

K.C.C.. modern one, adapted from Norma H. KC.C. Lorimar's novel, "There Was a King H. B. K.. in Egypt," and deals with love and Club de R.. adventure, scientific research and C. S. C. C. treasure stealing in mysterious,! colourful Egypt. The principal figures in this romantic story are enacted by Robert McKim, Claire Adams, Joseph J. Dowling, Carl Gantvoot and Mande Wayne.

STOLEN CLOTH.

steamer or the Company's Godown, where all cargo impeding immediate

discharge will be lauded at Consignees

risk

Storage will be arressed on cargo remaining undelivered after Friday 16th June, 1932

All broken, chafed and damaged packages will be landed into the Com- pany's Godown where same will be examined on Friday, 16th Jane, 1929, at 11 am.

So claims will be recognised after goods have left the Steamer or Godows, and none will be entertained if present- ed later than three weeks after arrival of steamer.

No fire insurance whatever will be *fected.

F. TSUTSUML

Manager. Hongkong, June 9, 1922.

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BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. During the summer months mothers should watch for any unnatural loose ness of the child's bowe's. When giver prompt attention at this time sorus trouble may be avoided. Chamberlain's Celic and Diarrhoes Remedy cau always Chemists and Etorekeepers.

All besten, obated and damaged

where they will be examined on the 14th June, 1959 at 10 Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

S.ML by

packages are to be left in the godowas

Claims against the steamer must be presented in writing within ten days after arrival of steamer, otherwise they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be affected by the undersigned in any case whatever." Bill of Lading will be countersigned

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

General Agents.`

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dongkong, June 8, 1922.

TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

Today

ALL preliminary notices of forth-

coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in the news columns of the China Mail, are charged for at the rate of $1 each, last year) providing that they do not (as announced in May and June of occupy more than four lines. Io fature will be placed in the advertising this space it exceeded they

for an unforgettably fire piece of charbe depended upon. For sale by all colutons. at the prevailing reter.

acterisation, and sympathetic support comes to him from Lillian Rich who, as the daughter of the man who sentenced "Sailor" Burke to twenty years at Tar Quentin, makes a very appealing heroine.

WATER SUPPLY.

FURTHER CURTAILMENT

PROBABLE.

and the present dry spell it is probable In view of the shortage of water.

kang will find ita that within the next few days Hong- curtailed. The rider-mir system will water supply again be called into use.

teen this morning emphasised the The Director of Public Works when

need for economy in the use of water.

there was no reed for alarm and that He impressed on the enquirer that any measures taken would be simply PTS precautionary. There is no doubt that a shortage exists but the main poist is that with careful handling the present eupply can be made to

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of drought. Figures show that May

and June are, wet months. A dry

o spell in one is mostly set off by heavy rains in the other. The main thing now is to prevent waste and hope that the cooling showers will soon strive.

Q.C., O.B.C. and L.B.C. who have played five out of their nine matches lead with four points each.

K.C.C. who have only played four matches have been defeated once.

Civil Service and Club de Racreio

QC..

A godown coolie formerly employed IR. C. at Messrs. Reiss & Co's. godown C. R. C. charged before Magistrate Lindsell K. C. C. yesterday with the theft of ten rolis M B.K.. of cloth which he had pawned at University various pawnshops.

0.C. C.

He admitted his guilt and said he Police had stolen the "cipth while he Club de B. was working for Reiss & Co., C. 8. C. C.

at $15 per month plas lodging in the godown. He was dismissed in March

this year for negligence.

Defendant was searched by Sergt.

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are bracketed at the bottom pointless. A daylight robbery was attempted by three armed men at No. 237, Hollywood Road, in the vicinity of the Central Police Station at 3.15 p.m. yesterday. The men knocked on the door of the flat, and calling ont the name of the master of the flat, Domestic Occurrences led his wife to open the door. Leading Articles Bushing in the men produced Correspondence revolvers and held up the woman, her Local and General· small son and a servant girl, the only Hongkong University occupants of the fat at the time. Company Meeting": While the intruden were ransacking Hawker Held Up... a cubicle, the servant girl escaped to Chamber of Commerce the verandah and blew a police Steam Launch Pirated whistle. This had the effect of Rowing Feat. confusing the robbers who departed The Rents' Ordinance hurriedly without taking anything. To E. W. H.. All three made good their escape. Our Finance

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