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LOGALAND GENERAL,

CORRESPONDENCE.

"GAMING IN KOWLOON.”

The s.s. Rhexenor" which! was built in Hongkong for the Blue Funnel line, arrived here last [To the Editor of the "! China Mall,” night on her first outward voyage. The vessel brought the English mail of May 29, which was picked

Sir, "Querist's letter appear.

TUESDAY JUNE: 26.

TROUBLE OVER TYRES.

LOCAL MOTOR. GARAGE SUBD.

A dispute arising out of the sale

FATAL SHOTS.

ARMED MEN RAID SHOP

DARING SAMSHUIPO CRIME.

An attempt to cominit an armed

The recent successful music-hall experiment at home of providing a | "turn" by old-timers of the stage in the songs which gave them a fleet ing fame, suggests that a revival of some of the old songs would not be unacceptable. The homely senti- tho tunes, if syruppy, provided patched from London via Brindisi, pretty he asks a lot of questions motor car tyres was heard by the robbery in a Samshulpo shop ment of mast of them, was good up at Fort Said having been desing in your issue of to-day ie all very by Messrs Britto and Coy, of some vocal and whistling practico for The voyage from Liverpool took which "any fellow" could answer Pulsne Judge (Mr. Justice Gom last night resulted in two mea

right off, but what we all really pertz) in the Summary Court to 30 days, which is fast steaming..

want to know, it being notorious day. Messrs. Britto and Coy millions, and enlivened many

of $191,12 family party. If some wore devoted

Plans to establish a school of that public gaming is going on in claimed the sum to Beer, beer, glorious beer." journalism in connection with the Kowloon, isAre these games of from the Sun Garage, Cause- is chance, or any of there, against the way Bay, who denied liability. others had quite au exhilarating Peking University, which

In his brief outline of the plain effect though not dealing with the estimated to cost $500,000, were law? If so, why have they not golden-or is it amber-fluid, anounced at the American head been stopped long since? If not, tiffe case Mr. el Arculli explained How many thrilled to the pathos of quarters of the university. The can I or you or any other resident that a broker arranged the sale and The Miner's Dream of Home, school will be opened in the in Hongkong run the same stants a man named Chung said to be the "The Old Brass Locket and the autuma of next year. A three-without interference? Let us have manager of the garage went to horneliness of "Maggic Murphy's term course is planned, and theau official newer to these ques- Britto and Coy, and bought the

They covered all sides of professors will be American tions

Yours, etc., a rapidly changing pre-war exist-graduates with journalistic ex

THE POINT. Gus Elen made the coster perience with one Chinese, Journa-

Hongkong June 26, 1923. und his tnoke live, for us in his list on the staff.

Hoine.'

ence.

"Down

Coburn

the

'mudo

Road"

ren

of her audiences.

being shot, one fatally. The story as told by the master of the fire wood and charcoal shop at No. 33, Nam Cheung Street, where the crime was perpetrated, does not give the events leading up to the shooting but it is believed that the inmates must have offered reaist- ance or raised an alarm. There were six robbers. The first two who entered said they wanted to carry out a search for arms. The master doubted their purpose and tried to walk quietly out of the shop. His The broker gave evidence that action' was doticed and he was at when acting for other companies once seized and locked up in the he had dealt with the same man on kitchen at the rear of his shop. He behalf of the garage and the ac-had not been in there long when a [mumber of shots rang out. As nose Questioned by Mr. F. E. Nash, of the robbers were standing guard To the Editor of the " China Mall counts had always been settled.

who appeared for the defence the over him, the master proceeded to Sis,With reference to your witness said that the tyres sold make his way out of the back door

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tyres. A receipt was made out in the name of the garage and this man signed it.

Charlesne Landyman Burentur e

**The The ninth national convention Man who broke the bank at of the Y. M.G. A. in China will be Monte Curly." Lottie Cullins held in Canton, October 16 21. The Tara, m-boom, dc, y as theme of the conventios this year China's Hope-Character," probably a fatuous frolic, but she is nightly kicked it into the affections and in helping to realize this motto leading article in Saturday's edition were a now brand but he did not into Main Street were he blew his

Marriage i sine strong commissions, which

Mr. Nash then On returning to the shop, he Mother-in-laws came in for it as have been appointed, will study on the question of cinemas aud your agree that they were difficult to put whistle.

Baggestion that the Churches might on the market. they always-do, but in a different the outstanding problems of a well take a hand in recommending put it to him that he made an found the police had arrived. He

association both in its internal way At Trinity Church I met my work as well as in its outside re-good pictures, I should like to know arrangement with Chung, actually saw his younger brother lying on loom"; "Three wonen to every lationships and will bring their local managers have ever invoked the driver of a private car stored the floor, apparently dead, blood-

A cousin of the master, who re man," and a song that dealt with findings to the conventions for the aid of the clergy whenever they at the garage, to sell the tyres at a issuing from his mouth and chest.

have had a film that could com- commission of 20 per cent. the nagging propensities of a

Mr. Nash said his case was that cently came from the country, was and the whole-hearted sympathy woman who was only four feet three against her hubby's six feet two.

Mr. L. V. Chute, Bulhara's of those engaged in religious work. the garage was not responsible also wounded in the left arm. All. The list could easily be lengthened. Covert, Wissett, Halesworth, Suf-I see that at home, the cinema as since the goods were not sold the miscreants

The Devil's Advocate.

discussion and adoption.

escaped,

ARMS AND OPIUM.

PASSENGERS” LUGGAGE

SEARCHED.

with the

Ltd It affords opportunity for quiet con-folk, writes 10 The China an aid to religions influence is being to the garage but to Chung who templation of an apparently by Express and Telegraph. If the used and film displays in Church was a private chauffeur. Called This is as it to give evidence, the Chinese pro- gone age when the Music hall was opinion of the literati" of China are not uncommon. more of a family gathering place could be canvassed-and the in- should be and a step in the right prietor of the garage said he know than it is now the days when some fluence of this mass on the huge direction. The deadly enemy of nothing of the transaction until he in indifference" your got a letter from Mr. Britto on re "Hally had a chairman who sn mass of the common people religion nounced each item in a style that of China is supreme-I am quite Church correspondent wrote the ceipt of which he made inquiries result told Chung to settle the mat would put some Chairmen to could convinced they would vote unan- other Saturday. It is the apparent among the chauffeurs and as a

imously for the replacement of an aloofness-indiference is the true ter himself. At Chung's request The discovery in an empty rolled mention, to shame.

Emperor: When China became a word-of the clergy in the ordinary witness saw Mr. Britto to whom oats tin of some raw opium led to intimately acquainted with China affaire and pleasures of the demo he explained that it was Chung's a further search of a Chinese Republic, nearly every foreigner felt that it was a foredoomed fail-cracy which alienates them from the affair. Mr. Britto referred him to passenger's baggage on the 8.3. Shangliai is to have a Community ure. Might this not be suggested Church and which might be obviat- his solicitors and witness explain-President Wilson" Church, and the experiment may to China as a first step, with the ed if our clericals come down from ed the matter to them. Chung had result that he was charged before bo said to be in keeping with the promise of an international loan, if their altitude and instead of con- no share in the firm and no authori Mr. J. R. Wood this morning with

ty to represent it.

the possession of 124 taefs of raw` Yours, etc.,.

The Pulsne Judge inquired whe- opium. His statement that he was modernism and enterprise of the it proved to be successful in pacify domning, directed and advised.

-SHANIEN. ther the garage's stock book was bringing the oplem for a friend Northern Settlement. The move-ing the country?

Canton. June 25, 1923.

available as, if the tyres were re helped him little for a fine of $1.500 ment is not to be confused with the

At the Volunteer Headquar

ceived by the Sun Garage, one was imposed or four months hard propagation of communistic political

might expect to find an entry on labour. doctrines.This Church is to heaters, yesterday afternoon, there

the day of the sale. 'Mr. Arculli Church of and for the people, not was a gathering of over 200 Chinese

said that an inspection had been merely opening its doors on Sun-present when Mr. L. C. Parker Rees, Chief Land Surveyor of the

made of the books but no trace of days, bus opening them daily; not Public Works Department, offered merely ministering to spiritual for sale by auction five lots of the Editor of the "China Mail." the transaction was found. The books did not appear, however, to needs but giving attention to the Crown land. The first four lots, all

Sir-Your article of to-day's have been very well kept. social questions that beset the situated at Ma Tau Chung, wer issue regarding the importation of Chung, who said he

the driver of The movement sold together, the upset price being ordinary person. will be watched with interest and $81,597. Bidding was brisk and foodstuffs from Wachow for use in was sympathy, Experimenting in lasted half an hour. The land Hongkong reveals a situation which Taikop car, told the Court that for should not be tolerated, I believe Messrs. Britto & Co.'s broker Church activity is not as common was finally knocked down as it might be. The introduction $450,500, a little over $1 per foot that there is some covenant between arranged with him to sell the tyres the same liner was fined $500 for He told. of the magie lantern was at age The second sale, which involved China and the foreign powers on commission, promising that possession of I revolver and 300. the Magistrate (Mr. J. R. Wood) time viewed with horror, whilst a 88,000 square feet of land at Stubbs whereby lovies, customs, taxes, etc. those tyres which were not sold rounds of ammunition. time viewer the cincing does not Road, also aroused keen competi- on merchandise going in and out of could be conclusion of Chung's that has had ved in, the U.S.A. find general favour. Clergymen tion. Bidding started at the upset treaty ports, cannot be collected have said they are not variety price of $14,700. Excepting about except under the clauses which pro evidence His Honour commented since birth and was told by the price of a tyre) in the defendant's papers, that he was entitled to agents and that such things can be ten bids of from $1,000 to $3,000 vide for these payments. If this is upon an entry of $36,64 (the cost lawyer who prepared his travelling obtained elsewhere without much each the competition was sustane so, the levy by local authorities books on the same day that, accord-bring one gun into Hongkong and. difficult. Others lay the blame for ed by offers in hundreds. The would be illegal. However, that is ing to the evidence, a tyre had been no more. diminished church attendance on lot was sold for $100,200. The pur not the point to which I wish to sold back to plaintiffs' broker at the hapless attending: laity and chasers in each case were Chinese. draw your attention. It is, oa you cost price as a friendly transaction. calmly assure them that is, your

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TAXING OUR FOOD SUPPLIES.

Yours, etc., Hongkong, June 25:

CHOW.

At the

$750 FINE;

For being in possession of a. mauser pistol and 3 magazines a Chinese, who returned from Am erica by the s.5. "President Wil- Another Chinese passenger by sod," was fined $750 this morning.

YELLOW DRAGON;"

OUR REVIEWER BREAKS, INTO VERSE.

The Pulsne Judge said that butThe 'Yellow D.' for June is out" for the coincidence of the amount bear Queen's students cry and

shout). of this entry being the same as the

say, that collections by the military. The proprietor had explained that will add to the price paid by the this represented the price at { business.** And so it goes on, with

consumer in Hongkong. Cannot which a number of old tyres two nations are ready to cut off their theology a mass of mixtures accord-

some steps be taken to prevent this? were sold to a marine hawker noses to spite their faces over an ing. to the school of thought of the

In the fewA Reuter message from Con-If a formal protest proves of little and Chung said, in answer that or no avail, could not reprisals be to His Honour's questions that he BASSET-On June 20, 1923, issue that did not exist six months padres concerned.

experiments which have been made, stantinople to-day Shanghai, to Monsieur and Madame Lucien Basset, a son. ago. And this after the 1914 tragedy. the one to which we have given the Mustapha Kemal received Baron taken? In any case, I consider this had sold tyres to the Sincere Cont un injustice which should not be pany and to somebody in Wuchow. Truly a sad, a grim sign of the caption to this note, is most inter- Uchida at Riga,

tolerated and trust that steps will be times. But is there no remedy, no esting. Dispensing with a sermon,

According to a Reuter cable from taken to stop it? hope? Germany is offering this two of the clergy staff engage in

some absorbing debateable point of states that Mr. Joffe has been RUMJAHN.--At the French Hos- fatul passive resistance can she question and answer. They take London, a message from Moscow this morning, Elias not be induced to call a halt? The religion, such as the Resurrection, officially appointed Soviet repre pital Rumjahn, aged 16 1/2 years. French say she can, but the French and by means of question and reply sentative in the Kusso-Japanese Funeral takes place to-day, 5.15 p.m. Shanghai, Tientsin (we have now found) close their traverse, so far as is possible, the negotiations.

Dr. A. P: Peck, father of Mr. arisen in the minds of men on this! and Kobe papers please copy eyes to facts. Doubtless the Germany well known issues which have MANTHEL-On June 1923, at man Government would gladly stop matter. Thus a Church service Willys Fock, Chinese Secretary of Shanghai, John L. Manthel, passive resistance if it could. But becomes not merely a matter of the American Legation, died in chief engineers.s." Woosung,"

Not only would the ritual, but something in which it is Berkeley, California, on June 15. aged 57 years.

attempt spell the Cabinet's speedy possible to have doubts of mind and Dr. Peck was 74 years old and reason dispersed in no uncertain lived in China, mostly in Shan tung, from 1880 until 1919 when dloom and internal chaos-pervasive fashion. The idea might, for madness has seized the populace short season, be adopted locally. which would declare itself betrayed

The China Mail.

VICIOUS CIRCLE.

it cannot.

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sixteen years ago and was only re-

NEW

cost price of the plaintiff's tyres heLscan its pages and Ind would unhesitatingly have given A feast attractive to the mind. judgment for the defendants. The Editorial as usual At His Honour's suggestion the Deserves strict perusal. case was adjourned in order to There the Editor dilates find out whether the Sincere Con Upon the exam., candidates pany bought the tyres from Chung | The Old Boys letters he reviews" or the garage and also in order to And thanks them for their timely

views. School notes are quite a regular hawker to be secured.

scream allow the evidence of the marine

MOLLER CHARGES,

"COLONIAL SECRETARY'S

STATEMENT.

Much information from them we

do glean.. "Bathing

suggests

at

Cheting

C, Chain'

A welcome rest from schoolish

testu..

COAL WHARF:

· LOCAL ENTERPRISE. KAILAN MINING COMPANY'S

The Kailan Mining Administra he retired from his medical praction is reclaiming a site for a coal tice in Tientsin at the age of 71. yard and wharf at Lai-chi-kok id- joining the Dairy Farm Company's. The death took place at Singa property there. Interviewed this

"School life 5000 years ago" but the Ruhr millions are now To-day' Poc

pore on May 12 of Mr. LV. de morning Mr. C.A. Peel, of Messrs.

Proves things were not then quite The hero

we love in this land Jonk after a brief illness. Decess Dodwell & Co., the Administration's

so slow.. Hong Kong, Tursday, JUNE 20, 1993. beyond control. According to this

ed, who came from Ceylon, joined local agents, courteously informed

The Colonial Secretary (the Hon. The latest thumbnails" do dot afternoon's cables, the German Pro-to-day: mier, speaking at Koenigsberg. Is the hero who lightens some fel- the Medical Department about our representative that the area to Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher), interview-

maring - low man's load afrined that no order, as the who makes of the mountain some cently retransferred to the District be reclaimed is more than 500,000 ed this morning with regard to the The reputates of C., and R.

Hospital; Kutain Taimpate from Pa-square feet. Most of this space will he repeated charges made by Mr. In other Items dealt with zeal French-had demanded, could ter

pleasant highway

appeal." and other products of the Adminis- said that he had nothing further to minate the situation croated by the Who makes of the desert some blos hang. He leaves a wife and four used for the storage of coal and coke Eric Moller and Mr. C. R. Burkill Aro Matric.", books and What had passive resistance in

children. – P. son-Bown road..

tration, such as firebricks and fire-add to what he had told a China Making again the "Yellow D.. the Buhr to do with reparations

JOAQUIN MILLARS

The wedding took place on clay, There will be space available Mail reporter when interviewed on this time last year? Nothing! Will of the people. And he spoke

Saturday last, at Tsingtao, of Mr for the stomge of at least 60,000 the subject, on Jane 8, when he had The magazine that pleases me.

suid that "the Moller ships were Then what has it to do with the truth. The Ruhr population has felt the invader's heal and it is

Er. Wilken of the Hongkong and tone of coal LOGAL AND GENERAL, reparations now 2 You may well

Shanghai Banking Corporation, Included in the plans is a wet treated in exactly the same manner and Misa Doris E. Kent of Shang basin which will be 500fb. long and as all other British ships similarly, ask, for passive resistance is slowly irrevocably embittered: Any further Slowly but attempts to crush its spirit will

Cable Communication with hat: Mr. Wilken, who is a native 180ft wide, enabling lighters to be commandeered."

In view, however, of the letters only stiffen its resolve. Here then raining Europe.

of Reading, England, has many loaded at all times, sarely. The whole world's fate lies no hope. The French, what of Macao is interrupted.

friends in Hongkong, he having The wharf is to be of concrete, from Messrs. Moller and Burkill, Until it is hangs on this issue.

them? Will they give way; will

When the Peak Tramway 3.16 been'st the head office of the Bank 800ft long. This will be used appearing In the N. C. Daily News, ed from here by the Empress of Bottled, France refuses to withdraw,

Until she does they withdraw their ruinous down car was nearing the Bowen for a good many year. His bride chiefly for discharging col on to the Colonial Secretary is now pre- Canada June 2 arrived in New from the Ruhr.

demand? One fears not. They Road level, a Chinese, who had the is the elder daughter of Captain the yard from the Administration & paring a precis of the entire York on Jana 22, having been 20

appearance of being a new arrival and Mrs. W. E. Kent and is well steamers. Except in special cases episode, which, when completed, days in transit

the local press torenable the public withdraw, Germany refuses to stop have sworn that passive resistance from the country, threw himself on known In Shanghai where hers will not be employed for the will be issued for publication In Allowing for the 13 hours differ-

bunkering_of___steamers aa ik: 14 to form, their own judgment: shall cease and coase it must the ralis. The car was stopped parents residen

usually more convenient to carry

· Vicious "circle lasts, réparations re- main unsolved; and while repara Otherwise France has failed. almost at once but it had already

and Holland (1677) now passes to Instantaneous. tions remain unsolved Europe's National dishonong ? Never Ruin run over the man. Death was The Earldom of Breadalbane cut this work in the barboim whilst Captain C. W. Campbell, of Bors cargo in being loaded or discharged, Genomic chaos continues, Europe's rather than shame.. And ruin it orgy of hata grows still more bitter. will be, for both sides, unless sanity That he was one of a party of land, along with the five minor The yard should be read", for the robbers who carried hatchets, fron Scottish titles. His father claimed storage of cost during the latter ball "Thus the world runs two terrible preveile. Even the must hopeful, bars, knives, and torches when the peerages and the large family of next year?

isks-the risk that Europe will however, camiot dog that canity robbing a house in Kip Shek Mir estates Perthshire and Argyll The depth of water

ar economo collapse and the risk emerging from the present folly. village some time ago, was the shire in 1862:on the death of das armed conflict will result: Shall Europe, then, finally sunk into charge against a Chinese before Brst Marquis of the or Either event would be enough to moras? The answer libe with JR Wood Hesterday after creations Litigation went on shake the world, and who knows

ssive resistance.

While thie

Britain first with Ameri nox And promptly demand ther All this simply because exert their mi

ally submerge our sadly shaken

vin living-listhe house several years ap:1 alleged that she saw defendant decision but the latter denied the charge. (In 186

s' remanded until Campbell

Swille

be less

A. C. P. S. RECORD.

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