FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928
DAVIS CUP TENNIS.
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CHICAGO, August 10. Playing the opening match for the Davis Cup final in the Ameri- can zone, Shimidzu (Japan) defeat ed Hawkes (Australia) 6-4, 3-6,
2-6, 6-1, 6-4
SHIMIDZU'S VICTORY,
LATER.
beat Anderson (Australia) Fukuda (Japan) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1,
Shimidau was victorious owing to his greater steadiness and ex- perience, though Hawkes was very spectacular. The latter began to tire in the fourth set, which the Japanese won easily.
DURING DINNER.
MINTING IN AMOY.
WARNED OFF BY BRITISH CONSUL.
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HONGKONG MAN'S JOB.
LONG KNIFE.
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YOUNG, JAPANESE WOMAN
SLASHED..
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SUPPOSED FAMILY QUARREL.
verge of collapse, being unable to reply to the questions put to him.
Detective Inspector Earner, De- tective Sergeant Dixon and Chinese detectives soon reached the scene. First aid was rendered and the woman was 'taken", to hospital in the motor-ambulance; That by was engaged to erect a
Mr. C. G. Perdue, Assistant Direc- mint at Amoy which subsequently
tor of Criminal Intelligence took proved to be an illegal enterprise
What is surmised to have been charge on arrival. None of the and to take charge of the Anoy Japanese woman being slashed and
a family quarrel resulted in a young household saw the beginning of the docks was the story told by a Euro- stabbed about 11 o'clock this morn-attack and no reason was forthcom- pean nained E. T. Arnold, of ing. The victim lives with her ing, it being stated that there had Armand Buildings, Kowloon, who husband and his brother at the first been no quarrel, brought an action in the Bummary Court this morning to recover a saun of $336.51, balance of salary due, from Lo Yan-san. 48, Den Vaux Road.
The action was undefended and in support of his claim the plaintiff told the Puise Judge Mr. Justice compertz) that he was engaged by the defendant in Hongkong on May
floor of No. 37, Hollywood Road, not far from the main gate of the police headquarters.
It is alleged that her husband's brother suddenly attacked her with a long knife when she was sitting in the front parlour. Stic ran into the kitchen where she almost collapsed.
Meanwhile the brother is stated
20 to erect some mint machinery to have been disarmed, the knife
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at Amoy and also to take charge being subsequently recovered JAPAN TELEPHONE & ELECTRIC CO. of the Amoy dock. About a week in the street. A Chinese constable. LTD., 17 Queen's Road Central, after his arrival in Amoy he called arrived on the scene to find the has been appointed to act as Hon. on the British Consul to pay his brother in a straight-jacket. The Secretary and Treasurer of the respects and to have himself re-prisoner went calmly to the central Society.
J. H. DONNITHORNE, gistered. The Consul said to him: station where he was put in the
President. "If you have anything to do with charge-room dock. Here he seem- the mint it will be my painful duty ed to be breathless and on the
Hongkong, August 10, 1023, SUN YAT-SEN FORCES TAKE CITY. to hand you over for arrest," ex-
WUCHOW GENERAL
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plaining that the defendant had no right to coin money. Witness thanked the Consul for his kind advice and told him he would go back and report the conversation to
WUCHOW, Wednesday. Wuchow has now been occupied by the Sun Yat-sen forces. The city fell into their hands some
The Conal then little time ago but they did not the defendant. then take possession, remaining said if he will call on me this encamped outside. The Kwangsi afternoon I will tell him what I general, Fung Bo Chau, was left in have told you-and more." When control of the city with 1,000 men, witness told the defendant what the On Tuesday night Fung was in- Consul bad said Lo asked "What vited to have dinner with the the devil has he got to do with it?" Kwangtung General on the pai Witness then asked whet he was (official houseboat.) About 3 a.m. to do since the dock had not been on Wednesday, while dinner was handed over and he was not allowed still, in progress. Fung was sudden to work in the mint. Lo told bin ly seized. He was taken aboard a he could "sit in the office and pass Northern cruiser in Sun Yat-sen's the time away" until the dock had pay and was conveyed to Canton. been handed over. About July 3 or The troops in Wuchow were witness asked for his June salary rushed and disanned. Over 1,000 and defendant said he was going to stands of arms and two field guns longkong in two or three days' are said to have been taken, time and would pay it to plaintiff's together with all the ammunition wife. The defendant did not, how in the city. This is a direct breach ever, go to Hongkong, explaining of the treaty made when the city that he was very busy, and, when was first taken, for it was then agreed that the city should be left "pproached again on the subject, he maid his secretary was going to in Kwangsi hands. Popular feeling in Wuchow is running very high Hongkong and would pay the money to Mrs. Arnold. No money and trouble Is feared.
had been paid to plaintiff's wife and
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Maidon Voyage
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1-7 Food Supplies
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7 Review
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78 The Typhoon ..
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8-9 Youth
19
9
Landslides
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9
Colony's Trade
.20
Colony's Youngsters
.20
on
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Mr. Harding's Death
.21
.10
"Found Drowned"
.21
TUESDAY, August 14, 1923, at 12 o'clock" (noon);".
*263 Barbara Allen *262 The First Nowell
.10
Capt. W. A. Carlton
.21
at their Balor Room, Daddoll Street,
*261 Eileen Alannah
.10
Stroot Theft
.21
One Liver & White Painter Dog
.10
"Buckum "
.22
One Liver Pointer Dog
11--12 City Fire
.22
fermi :--Call on dolivary.
.12
Ricaba Squarza
.22----29
On view on day of Salo.
12
Wuchow Shipping
.23
19
Hard Times
.23
.13
Colony's Health
.29
Boogkong, August 10, 3929."
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Lost in the War
.24
.14
Travellere, Luggage ·
.24
.14
At Anchor....
.24
.15
Boxer Indemnity
.215
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Kidnapped
..26
"TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS,
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Commercial
.26-27
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Scouts in Camp
.27
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Dead Beats...
.27
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Tricks of the Trade?
27
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Sport....
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Passenger
"Charivaria
Exchange
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Stole the Watch
.17
Lotal Blars Market
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$50 000 Launch Water Supply
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Colony's Progress
.:32
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Local Swimming..
.30
Hongkong Bank Notes
.17
Strack on the Chin
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Correspondence Armos Traffic
he had only received certain A Stadium Or What? advances for food, etc., in Amy Colony's Young which he had deducted in making What Happens bis cleim.
During July he got a Hongkong Importe bad attack of fever and defendant Our Literary Lobby told him he had better go to Hong-Band Concert kong. Witness left Amoy on July Insurance
PEKING, August 9. In political circles it, is pointed and when he called on the C. R. A. Fetition out that, according to the Constitu- defendant at the latter's Hongkong Unjust Blame tion, the governing Cabinet's term office he was offered $240. "clear China's Disunity" expires on September. I. If the of everything." This he refused to gach le Fame! President is not elected before accept
His Honour gave judgment for that date, Parliament must approve the prolongation of the governing the plaintiff with costs. Cabinet. Courtesy Daily Bulletin.
TYPHOONS ABOUT.
ANOTHER WET WEEK-END
PREDICTED.
WATER POLO.
TWO EXCITING MATCHES.
AT V.R.C.
{Argus.]
At the V.R.C. swimming pool,
Indications are that we are in for another wet week-end, though it is last night, spectators were treated predicted that the full force of the to two very close contests in the typhoon will pass us by. At 902 Hongkong Water Polo League. this morning, the Royal Observa- In the first match, the Kowloon tory issued a warning, that a ty British School Former Pupils' phoon or depression of unknown Association defeated King's "A" intensity was within 120 miles of by I goal to nil. The score at half latitude 23 N. and longitude 123 time was love all, but in the second E and was moving W.N.W. At half, after many strenuous tussles, p.m. yesterday, the American Jack scored for the K.B.S.F.A. The Consulate-General received a cable King's goalie, specially in the from the Manila Observatory, second half, played a brilliant which gave warning of -a- typhoon game. The sides were very evenly in a northerly direction. At 8.45 matched and the fact that there this morning a message
from were six minutes' continuous play Manila stated there was a cyclone during the game testifies to the few or typhoon to the east of Southern breaches of the rules. The line-up: Formosa, which W.N.W. or N.W.
was moving
STEAMER THEFTS.
WEST JESSUP'S SAFE. ROBBED.
K.B S. F.Angus (goal); Hyde,
A Duncan (backs): Rasmussen (half-back); Railton, Jack, C. Din- can (forwards).
King's (A):-Moore (goal); Hill, Kerney (backs); Proffitt (half-back); Paul, Parry, Jones (forwards). Referee: Mr. G. T. May.
'A ROUGH GAME. The second match, in which the opponents were the Lusitano Re- Captain Robert Wilson, of s.s. creation Club and the United "West Jessup," on arrival here Athletic Club, was a very rough yesterday reported to the police display. Mr. May, however, was that $650 U. S. Currency in new equal to the occasion and handled bank-notes had been stolen from the game with commendable skill. the ship's safe, the theft being dis- The two chief offenders were warn- covered on the day the vessel left ed towards the end of the first Shanghai. The chief officer also half that further display of temper lost G360 and 40 yen from his cabin, would entail their being ordered It is surmised that the theft must out of the bath; nevertheless a little have been committed while the less keenness to "get" the other' ship was working cargo in man would have improved the Shanghai.
O. K.
game. The U.A.C. scored a soft point when Kent beat Roza early in the first balf: The L.R.C. then commenced a regular bombard- ment, but Garrod kept them out until a splendid individual effort by Mazcal made the scores level just before the interval. In the second half, play was fairly even until Razavet, from a mêlée in front of goal put the U.A.Gabead.. From then until the end, the LR.C. Mr. C. F. Yuen, Secretary of the had slightly the better of the game, South China Athletic Association, but Garrod kept his goal intact. courteously informed the China The teams:
AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL
TOUR.
Mall this morning that the S.C.A.A. U.A.C.-Garrod (goal); Razavet, football team reached Sydney on Pereira(backs)Leonard (half back); August 6 They had all arrived in Logan, Mason, Kent (forwards), good health and had no trouble- LR.C.Roza (geal); Soares, some customs formalities to under Silva (backs). Marcal. (half back); Bo, the
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