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THE CHINA MAIL.

who wasnt work. When about Today's Poem. **

half the Crown witnesses had boon

(Tho City Fountain.)

| heard, Mr. F. G. Jenkin, who

defended the prisoner, got up and Brightly sparkling crystal fountain, offered the Attorney-General Thero's delight in every ripple.

Fre the shady city square! remarkable quid pro quo. The As your waters spray the air! defeness found themselves unable to There's a subtle, fand persuasion answer in charge of manslaughter, In your silent invitation

For an hour's relaxation, siner the man had disobeyed explicit Seated in the shadows, dit. Confers not to lond his rifle except in And with interest never ending. euergency, but it was submitted To your side our foodsteps wending that the shooting was accidental. We accept your call, mibending, Mr. Jenkin therefore undertook to! For the noire from duties grita." withdraw his ples of une guilty to How, through leafy trees, usway.

Watching in a restfd silence,

the murder charge if the Crown Sunbeams, form a million rainbows. would acrept in its stend a plea of¦ As they strike your falling spray, guilty to auuslaughter. Mr. Keny disputing on your brink;

Watching, to, the happy sparrows accepting, the jury formally brought Watching swallows skim your sur in a verdict of guilty of man- faen: slaughter and the prisoner, who 10 And the dainty pigeons drink. minutes earlier had been in serious Ah, we need you, gurgling fountain, danger of lunging, was engratulat Reckoning the busy traveller

In the shady city square. ing himself on escaping with a light of the crowded thoroughfare. jail sentence. Whether or not the! man actually was guilty of murder is not for us to say a was i in this

we think, for the But

vase.

ƒ Attorney-General to decide.

we do maintain that the case having once gone to the jury it should have been left to them to determine, asi the Judge would undoubtedly have asked them to do, whether the man! was guilty of murder or whether it there was a reasonable doubt of his

| being guilty of nonder he was guilty of something else. The Chief dus Ltd the himself evalently found some dimeulty in priating the Attorney-General's attitude because

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HONGKONG, THURADAY, & VG. 13, 1923.

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In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KOWLOON POLICE.

„GOVERNMENT ANSWERS

CRITICISM.

'THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1925.

BREAKING RULES

KOWLOON FERRY AMENITIES.

(To the Editor of the Chine Mail.),

A WINNER)

PROGRAMME WORTH FIVE

DOLLARS,

The Government cannot agree)

The holder of the following that, the Kowloon Police Force in Sir,-As you may know, and theatre programme is requested to altogether inadequate, or that life very rightly too. the Ferry steamers forward it to the Chin Mail offico much property in Kowloon are dan being run for the general public, when a coupon to the value of $5 gerously unsafe,"

This statement just as a railway company runs its will be issued which may be was made by the Colonial Secretary trains for the convenience and changed for goods to the same in a letter went to the Kowloon comfort of the general public, value with any of the advertisers Residents Association and con- certain rules are generally ex- in the China Mail.

Star Theatre Programme No. 49 sidered by the Genem Committee hibited on such ferries or railway this week The Hon. Mr. Fletcher carriages that such and such a thing issued Tuesday and Wednesday, added flat the strength of the Police is strictly prohibited"; for in- August-21 and 22. Fores in Kowloon had been increas. stance on certain railway carriages Patrons of the three Cinema ed recently, and would be further of compartments "No smoking is Theatres, the Coronet, Star and inereused if the ocension 10

allowed" or "Passengers are re-World are advised to retain their de-

quested no to expectorate on the programmes and study the number floor" and so on. The Ferty to be found

on the front page. The Postionster-General wrote toon and Hongkong very rightly steamers running between Kow- the Association stating that in have notices as the following ex- fatare whenever a mail for Europe, hibited in English and Chinese:--

manded.

PORTAL FACILITIES.

Arneries. Judia or Australis is ne Įto be despatched on a goneraf hali- day tother than Sunday, Xinus Day or China New Year's Day) by a ship scheduled to sail or after 1,30 p.m., The Kowloon Branch Post Office will be open for business until, and eluse a mail at 11 nm. In case of earlier sailing the office will close about two and a half hours before sailing time.

TYPHOON SIGNALS

Passengers are requested not to put their feet on the seats" and

"No smoking and no spitting! on the floor" in one cabin on each ferry boat.

Such being the case, naturally one would expect these notices to

WATER POLO

FURTHER PROGRESS MADE-

IN LEAGUE.

(BY ARGUS.]

At the. V.R.C. swimming pool,

be observed explicitly, but, a case last night, the R.G.A. seniors occurred recently, sometime i proved far too good for the juniors, June this year, when a resident of: winning by 8-0. In the first half Kowloon was occupying the cabin, they scored on six occasions. Answering the Association's sug- where it distinctly has in English McDade got, the first two goals

Chinese "No gestion that signals should be dis and

smoking" carly in the game. Reddick scored played when the ferry had stopped "No spitting" (or some words to the third after a foul against the August 23-Coronet Theatre; running during typhoon weather, that effect, I may not be quite niors. After a corner to the B. the right wording); tram, Lelliot obtained possession, Nanook of the North."

the Government wrote that it was exact as to August 23. Star Theatre; considered inadvisable to display the Besides the writer there were two sending a long pass to Harris who ladies and some other men, and two registered number four: McDade The Fighting Guide,"

and proposed signals from Signal Hill citizens of Manila. One of them scored the fifth and Reddick the Dewdrop Inn."

beenuse of possible confusion with August 23.-World Theatre; weather signals. The mast at the Was smoking a cigarette, and, as 1, sixth. After the interval, Harris ALITY conversant with the law, I scored the seventh from a pass by at 5.15 pmn., Bessie Barriscale in Water Police Station was not suit-naturally drew the attention of the Lelliot and McDade obtained the "Life's Twist"; at 9.15 p.m., ble for the purpose. Au alteration smoker to the notice, when he in- final point just before the end. "Atlantide."

in the must at the Observatory in mediately stopped smoking, but his Teams connection with wireless telegraphy fellow companion, a national of

R.G.A. (A)-Kyte (goal); Lel-

་་

he expressed the opinim that hand" | the evidence as a whinke been pul ta!, the jury and they had believed one of the Crown witnesses (presumably the one who swore at the Magis trucy to having seen the Indian joint his rifle at the dead man) it September 1.-Promenade Con- was under consideration, and the Manila also, asked his companion Hot, Hitchins (backs); McDade cert at Hongkong Volunteer Head-display of the suggested signal for a cigarette and began to smoke (half-back); Reddick, Harris (for quarters 9.15. p.m.

would be nasidered in the same also and told the other to smoke, wards), connection.

SOCIAL.

| world larve been open to them to inve found the prisoner guilty of |unarder. By that and subsequent! rearks the Chief Justice seems to have gone as far as he could, with out overstepping the bounds of in- partiality imposed by his position, towards indicating that he thought i the case should have gone to the jury and that it largely depended upon the jury's opinion of this wit ness's evidence whether or not a murder charge could be sustained. Now this particular witness had not given evidence when the interrup tion occurred so that the jury had no opportunity of forming 1221 opinion, let alone expressing one, and the Attorney-General clearly, it appears to us, usurped their peculiaren though attached for life;

A slave could not attend a queen, Junction. Mr. Kemp's position in the matter indeed seems wholly As faithfully as did Ah Chien indefensible.

Who served my little wife. If he thought the evidence too slender to support a arder charge he should not have Oh, hubby.dear, 'tis wonderful, permitted the prisoner to be pHe never comes within my rooms

Ab Chien is so discreet: hugh the ordent of a murder fra and to be kept in four of his life for many days. If on the other hand he felt there was a reasonably strong prima facie case, albeit it contained

PUBLIC AUCTIONS. August 24-Lammert Bros., at York Buildings (Top Floor) a quantity of office furniture and"THE FIGHTING fittings, II a.m.

MEETINGS. December 12-Meeting of Un- secured Creditors of the Hong- kong Branch of the Banque Industrielle de Chine, at the City Hall, 3 p.m.

THE JEWELL

Until I'm dressed complete !"

That's good Ah Chien (sid

you're trained.

I wonder how you tell.

some element of doubt, it was for That Missie's Buished dressing: the jury, and not for him, to decide you seem to kraws; so well !** whether that doubt was sufficiently

verdict of

I)

| English-speaking

nations bound together by a verdict instead of a

strong to justify a manslaughter Ah Chien replied: "Him Number comnton language and a common munter. interest, and have therefore a great

advantage over any other group. France's Birth Rate. The interchange of teachers between!) Englund and Canada and the Despite the strenuous efforts Rindes scholars have already nude the decline in the birth-rate and to

made in France recently to check! exchange of educational methods redes the rate of infant mortality. Those who know tell us that i there is to be another war similes between North America the depopulation of France con

A closer union of tinues at a rate which is giving rise. The War, the Great War, Arunged. English-speaking nations world to growing alarm among scientists

and economists. A particularly bad; is impossible for deepen these already established clummels of relationship and prove

to the one now variously known as

don, etc., it civilisation to survive.

famous book predicted that no great? European war could last out three days or three weeks. That predic

blem appears to rest with the

and England.

tries,

feature of this depopulation is the

One. B'long plopper talkie me: No come when Missie no have

clothes- First makie key-hule see!"

1923.

-JOHN KYOTO,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The

GUIDE."

WILLIAM DUNCAN AT THE STAR.

be

ton.

the

whereupon I again drew the R.G.A. (B):- Oram (goal); second man's attention to the Doggerell, Baker (backs); Woolley notice, but he refused to take (half-back); Collyer, Barton, Poul- any notice of me and defied even

Referee:-Mr. G. T. May. the Captaip Superintendent of Police to rebuke him and that I was

THE SECOND GAME. In the at liberty to prosecute him. A mem-

second match, ber of the crew also drew his atten- R.A.M.C. created somewhat of a tion to the notice but he was surprise by preventing the LRC, the first half. ignored. When the ferry arrived from scoring in William Duncan, in "The

at Hongkong, the second man in Though they failed to score them which Fighting Guide,”

com question of the two mentioned, at- selves, they had slightly the better mences at the Star to-day, has a tacked the writer and asked to be of the exchanges. In the second story that fits him. He has soused taken to the C. S. P. and started to R.A.M.C. defence allowed Car half, mistake between the its possibilities and has made the use abusive language and threats. most of them. The mere plot is Some two days later the writer was valho to score when McCurrach one that starts a chuckle. Imagine returning to Kowloon, and the two was out of goal, and Marcal a petulant, overfed and overindulg-identical mea happened to added a second point with a shot ed nobleman with his fat valet, passengers by the same ferry who which gave the goalie no chance. setting out on a trip across the alighted at Kowloon. The second After this double reverse, the Canadian Rockies in the tender man of the two mentioned, actually RAM.C. played harder than ever, care of one of the greatest guides assaulted me and began to use most of the attacks and the L.R.C. won but lack of combination spoilt most in the north woods, Ned Light vile and abusive language and ning. Ned patiently loads himself threats, and when the writer tried by 20 Teams- and his indian helper with bathtub, to avoid him by engaging aricksha, Cruz (backs); Marcal (half-back); LRC-Roza (goa!); Silva, golf clubs, reclining chair, the second of the two only, follow- umbrellas and the thousand or so ed the ricksha and began to use the Rocha, Carvalho, Pereira (for- incongruous necessities of His same threats and abusive language, wards). Lordship. A week out

R.A.M.C. McCurrach (goal), be this was done a third time when Baigent, Pigott (backs); Percy blows

and up

to the writer happened to meet the do some of the fording him two same men in Kowloon. So much self. A letter in one of the noble for asking a passenger to refrain man's coats, which has been from smoking in a cabin which is appropriated by Ned, sets him on a marked" No smoking etc." which make a picture with some series of remarkable adventures,

wonderful scenery and- some humour of a high quality. “

decides

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Again, on Tuesday last the 21st

half-back); Tidd, Chilton, Miles (forwards).

Feferee:Mr. G. T. May.

CORONER'S ENQUIRY.

ACCIDENT CAUSED DEATH OF JAPANESE CYCLIST.

In his capacity as Coroner, Mr.

instant, in the same cabin, where it has the notice "No smoking etc"! there were a couple of ladies and other men in the compartment, to gether with a local architect apparently, because he had some house plans with him, and with him were three Chinese passengers In the same compartment who also J, R. Wood held an enquiry into The dead body of Wu Wing, ahad plans, apparently accompany the cause of the death of a Japanese Coolie aged 30, formerly living at ing the architect, smoking away ad shoemaker, named Sujita of 18, Shek-O, has been removed from lib, one of the Chinese men actual D'Aguilar Street, who died in the beneath a mat-shet which was ly spitting the butt end of his Government Civil Hospital on wrecked during the typhoon. cigar on to the floor, while the August 10th.. from a compound English architect (7) had his pipe fracture of the left leg. Sitting but was not smoking at the time. with the Coroner was a representa Causeway Bay breakwater was In this case the writer was not in tive from the Japanese Consulate. badly damaged during the the compartment but immediately typhoon, according to police re-in front and for this reason did and J. M. O. Remedios were on Messrs. G. Mellis, A. I. Mohamed ports. Three junks were sunk near not draw the attention of the the jury. the sea-wall in front of Jardine, smokers to the notice. Matheson's Sugar Refinery.

During the 24 hours ended extent to which it is due to the August 21, two cases of small-pox It wmy ใน ม. Norman Augell in 'a beginning of international under- wastage of infant life. Dr. Wallich, were reported.

1

One patient is ¿standing and acuity among all con- Professor of Obstetrics in the Paris British, the other Chinese.

The National Union of statement on recent statistics, hos Faculty of Medicine, who bases bis

A Reuter cable from Melbourne Teachers, in England, aumbers just declared that of newly-born states that the Pan-Pacific Science

The Japanese met his death as 122,000 English eduentors. It is children put out to nurse something Congress has concluded.

The purport of this letter is to the result of a collision between tion was not fulfilled. However no

ask whether such notices exhibited his motor cycle and a tram car near impossible to predict the influence like 50 per cent. are doomed to members have left for Sydney. person in his same senses wishes to

Advices from of such a body and such a number ignonnce of their nurses. In the death through the carelessness or

Chinkiang are really meant to be observed or the London Mission Chapel at Yee hare the horrors which commenced |

state that the British Consul, Mr. not, if they are to be observed then Woo Street, on the morning of in 1914 and continued for so long.erting its influence in the cause first ten days of inst month 255 Market, cables Reuter, the mark his throat cut, in his bath room should instruct their staff on the the driver of the tram in question On the London Exchange E. A. Sly, was found dead, with surely the ferry management August 9. Evidenco was given by and whose effect we are suffering of peace on the young mind, beyond newly-born children in Paris were reached forty million to the pound on August 20. An inquest is ferries to prevent passengers from that he was going towards Whit- from at the present moment, re-ying that such effort would un-t to arse, and of these only sterling, and closed at twenty being held, cables Renter from smoking only in the cabin which ty Street when the collision occur.

The solution of the pro-questionably be for the world's tween the 21st and 31st of the same

one was to be naturally fed, Be-seven million

Shanghai, peated.

is marked so and also to prevent red. He did not notice the unt. A well known Roman month 370 children were similarly i

the public generally from patting deceased until the head of his car A Reuter cable from Tokyo According to a Reuter message their muddy shoes on to the seats had met that of another tram ccm=" children of the present generation Catholic divine has given it that if handed over by their parents to the dated Augis states that the the Soviet has appropriated 185 and that behind ladies. Naturally ing from the opposite direction and those who have the responsible had control of the child mind of these children are conderent to Shanghai the previous afternoon, pose of renewing telegraphic com-ance etc, one may do as he likes The deceased swerved to the right care of others. "Fifty cent, of President Grant" sailed for thousand gold roubles for the pur- in one's home or private convey-behind which the man was riding. duty of directing their education England Roman Catholicisan would death, said Dr. Wallich. He after the fire had been extinguished, munication on the Persian frontier but in a public conveyance where hand side and collided with the and their outlook. Fence cannot be ere long become a world force, pleaded for an extension through The damage is stated to be not so via Kisiiarwat, Polteratsk and notices are exhibited, prohibiting outside comer of the tram. The taught as one would tench civics. The inference is obvious; coanaence France of university crèches similar seat as was at first reported. Gaudan.

smoking and putting up of the tram-driver sounded the foot gang Int it is possible to inculcate a right with the young. Inculente in them Paris, in which children are nursed to those already established in

feet on the seater especially when and applied the emergency brake, outlook on life in the thoughts of the horrors of war and the bless ander professional

The s.s. "Suisang" built to the

ladics are seated in front of them but it was too late. The cycle went children which will make them safe ings of peace, and war or the idea Until this was done there would Navigation Co., Ltd., by the Hong- again mentioned in which four all laws is the greatest asset for selous when picked up.

In Mr. Wood's Court this is far from being pleasant and on for about 45 feet before it was supervision. order of the Indo-China Steam

morning, the Yara"

case was playing, the game. Obedience to pulled up. Deceased was uncone : citizens of the world, and make of war will become a dead letter.

continue, he said, to be a wastage kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Chinese are charged with con- the welfare of any civilised nation fhem ses clearly in times of inter-

Dr. J. T. Smalley, of the Govern which, quite apart from sentiment, Ltd., is to be launched on Thursday spiracy to steal 8.452 rounds of or citizen, and indeed the whole ment Civil Hospital, said he France could not afford. It appears the 30th inst. Itional misunderstanding. IS

tut over 40,000 French children die

ammunition from a Norwegian Christian moral is based on operated on the deceased. The during their first year from lack of

vessel. Mr. King, D.S.P., informed "OBEDIENCE."

trust the man, however, did not recover front The following extracts from the Court that the prosecution in management of the Star Ferry the shock, which caused his death. proper care. Yet the birth rate here the London Gazette are published in tended to prefer an additional company will see to it that such

After several other witnesses, The sense of patriotian need not be attention during the earlier part of fand 115, in Austria 114, and in Mitchell to be Quartermaster with Wednesday at 11.30 am.

Charles set down for hearing Dext They have some kind of staff or reviewing the ovidence, said it was the week there would surely have Italy 113. relinquished, but it should be been some cournents made on the seems sufficiently alarming, but M. Memoranda-Lieut. and Tempy.

crew on each ferry and it is up to quite clear that what had happened Such a comparison the rank of Lieut. July 14, 1923;

these men to make it a point of had been, an accident and it was enlarged and broadened to include surprising finish to the murder trisi Justin Godart, an ex-Minister, han Ordinance Officer 4th Class H. T. the Naval Yard, charged with steal-irregularities are not contravened. in the matter rested principally, if A Chinese coolie, employed at duty to see off and on that such also equally clear that any blame an international feeling of amity on Tuesday when a young Indian pointed out a fact which is still more Bell, lzp. list, late R.F.A. is restored ing a block and tackin valued at $43, goodwill and understanding. A who was charged with the likely to rouse Frenchmen to to full pay whilst employed with was before Mr. J. R. Wood this tion you may give this letter, and Coroner also said that obviously Thanking you Sir for any atton- not wholly, with the deceased. The 10ming of a Chinese got of with realisation of the inunirent danger the R.A.O.C. July 14, 1933: Royal morning. He was arrested by an at the same time apologising for there was not gross negligence on nations could do much toward the slaughter. The Crown casa a ente. Unless there is an immediate

Army Ordinance Corps The unJadian.watchman,coming out of the such a lengthy complaint, but the part of the tram-driver-and- Tablishment of permanent inter- that at the Quarry Bay excavations improvement, the population 3rd Class and Majors to be ped in his over-dos-denied all stances to connect, the latest irre- verdict of accidental death,

the prisoner, in deliance of instrac France will actually be diminishing the rank of Lieut-Colonel May, 30, his plea was unavailing and he was

Ordnance Officers 2nd Class with knowledge of how it got there, but gularity, toaded miisket, while on duty, and in 1926 at the rate of 250,000 a 1923: Bt. Lieut-Colonel B. A. Hill, sentenced to six weeks' imprison- there deliberately shot a Chinese year.

D.S.O

therefore the world is to be made n Manslaughter or Murder?

pluce fit to live in, it must be done;

Had the typhoon and its after

I

through the children of every land.nath not monopolised the public while in Germany it is 141, in Eng-King's Regt.-R.S.M.

is only seven por 10,000 inhabitants, Command Orders Infantry-charge of larceny. The case was Irregularities are not allowed. had been called the Coroner, in

working group of English-speaking 18 months' imprisonment for man-¡ which this rate of depopulation pre-dermentioned Ordnance Officers gate with the block and tackle wrap-/ had to recapitulate former in-suggested that the jury bring in-

national peace, not because no

other group of nations could accomplish this. but because the

tions, went into a matted with a

ment.

Yours etc.

KOWLOONITE

Kowloon, August 23.

A verdict, to that effect, with a rider that go blame was attached to the trảm driver, was accordingly returned