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TUESDAY APRIL 22 ∙1924

BUILDING COLLAPSE.

WYNDHAM HOTEL ACCIDENT.

WORKMAN'S APPRENTICE

INJURED.

At 2.40 this afternoon, part of the Wyndham Hotel which stands at the junction of Wyndhamn Street and Glenealy and is in course of being demolished, collapsed with a resounding crash. Debris was thrown across the street to the Dairy Farm's offices and passers- by had narrow escapes. :

From a foreman who is in charge of the work of palling the hotel down it was gathered that all the fokis managed to get out from the building before anything serious happened but a Chinese boy who had the appearance of an apprentice and was working at the place was taken away by other workmen. He was bleedink in

several places but could walk with

support.

mound of old bricks etc., was lying outside what used to be the entrance to the old hotel. Passage outside was blocked for minutes.

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THE PAUL BEAU."

MAY BE TOWED INTO DOCK TO-MORROW.

THE RIVER COLLISION,

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The steamer which collided with the ss. "Paul Beau" near Sarapan Chau the Canton River on Saturday night, has been Le fils de identified as the s.s.

After she struck Paul Doumer." the river steamer, she was able to proceed to Canton and yesterday was lying off the Taikoo wharf at Canton discharging cargo. This is a vessel of 704 tons, owned by the Kalyue Steamship Company.

A message received from the "Paul Beau" by the Harbour Office yesterday morning stating that they were badly in need of provisions came after the Taikoo tug and sal- age party had left with provisions aboard.

"The Manager of the Canton Navigation Company, owners of

the

Paul Beau'

BİG ARMS HAUL.

CHINESE STUDENT

ARRESTED.

SAMPAN PEOPLE. CHARGED.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

On arrival of the "Paul Lecat" found in the ship, 18 pistols and yesterday, one of the ship's officers 800 rounds of ammunition which were handed over to the police.

When Detective Sergeant Dork he seized 39 revolvers, 85.980 ing subsequently visited the ship

rounds of revolver anımanition and 3,900 rounds of Mauser ammunt

tion.

A Chinese student was arrested by a Revenue Officer for alleged possession, among his luggage of the ship, of an automatic and some ammunition.

KOWLOON'S THEATRE

MORE VARIETY AT THE

STAR.

Thoroughly maintaining its reputation for varlety, the Star Theatre this week offers several to-morrow there is being shewn a notable attractions. To-day and

To Please One Woman lever Paramount picture called which shows the scrapes a man

the leading role and the picture is can get into to please the lady of his heart. Clair Windsor takes

consistently entertaining

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Reuter cable from: Paris states

that in the Inter-Army rugby match the British defeated the French 21:17.

A Chinese, charged with the unlawful possession of 170 maels of w opium, was fined $2,500, with the alternative of six months' hard labour.

Colonel J. Christie, was

granted by: Mr. L. Scrivenor of charged at Ipoh with attempted cheating in respect of a cheque

Gopeng. He was discharged.

A market butcher was describ- ed by Divisional Inspector Black- man at the Yaumati Police Court He was yesterday as a bully charged with assaulting a woman who was dissatisfied with the beef supplied to her and was bound over.

For possession of two choppers on a satapan in the harbour, two Chinese were yesterday sentenced to six weeks' hard labour each; A Chinese detective told the Police Court Magistrate at Yaumati' how he followed defendants and ulti- mately challenged them.

Beginning Thursday there will be a special double programme. Three weeks hard labour was This will include the two famous meted out to a Chinese who had dancers, little Mura Shipoff and been working at the Kowloon her brother. Miss Shipoft was Godowns and on leaving had instructor who stolen eleven pounds of nails. taught by the It is stated that several deten. trained Pavlova and she is regard. He was tried in the Yaumati tions have been made in connectioned by many as the coming Pavlova. Magistracy yesterday.

Miss Shipoff is well-known in with the discoveries of arms.

Hongkong, having achieved local Following upon the discovery fame here when she appeared a on board the French mail steamer number of times in performances and her "Paul Lecat, yesterday morning given in the Hongkong Hotel's companion told China Meil 100,000 rounds of ammunition, her skilled artistry on those occa

ship Charles or over, 50 revolvers and nearly roof garden. Many still remember Hardouin" representative this morning that four men were charged at the sions. though the "Paul Bean! was Marine Court this morning with Showing in conjunction with leaking it was expected she unlawfully depositing rubbish and Miss Shipoff's dances, is an

picture, would be temporarily repaired to throwing substance into the harExcellent movie tow her into Hongkong to-morrow, bour without permission. Their Message from Mars," which is

based on the well-known play nates were Ng Chai, master of

the same name. La passenger boat, Ho Tung, un- employed, 31, Cock Street, Li hun, unemployed, and Wong Ching-man. The third and fourth! defendants did not appear and bail of $50 was estreated. As a sequel to the motor bus

Manuel Roca Beltrao stated that crash on a bridge in the New The US. Consul General has at 5 mm. he was on board the Territories the Sunday before last, Leen intoerned by the Chief "Paul Lecat" with his agents and the two drivers appeared before Quarantine Officer of the Philip the officers when he saw a sampar Mr. R. E. Lindsell, on remand, at pine Islands that, until further t the gangway. The second the Magistracy this morning tootice, the regulations with redefendant, in the sumpan was face a charge of manslaughter.

It will be recalled that the out-gard to small-pox at Manila will receiving a bag through the port. going bus contained a party of as follows

hole. About five bags had been boy scouts who were travelling to 1.-The inspection of vessels pussed into the sampen when he camp at Un Long. One of them arriving in Manila from all ports noticed them. The second defen- was killed and others were injured. will be made at the ustad guardant was seen to throw a bag inte Altogether three have died and antine anchorage beyond the the water this morning. Traffic Inspector breakwater. Vessels will not be Kent informed His Worship that a required to call at Mariveles for fourth had succumbed in hospital. inspection. The case was again remanded..

FOURTH DEATH.

MOTOR BUS COLLISION SEQUEL.

GOLF CLUB.

EASTER MONDAY COMPETITIONS.

Results in the Golf Club Easter Monday competitions were follows:-

as

In the long driving Mr. A. K. Mackenzie (238 yards) won the men's competition easily as did Mrs. Fitzroy Williams (166 yards) who came first in the ladies' section.

Captain Bloxham (9) won the men's approaching and putting event and Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Fitzroy-Williams and Mrs. Humphreys tied with 1 each. At the second attempt Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Fitzroy-Williams tied again with 31 each and finally Mrs. Parker won with a score of 10.

SIR W. REES DAVIES.

QUARANTINE.

MANILA RESTRICTIONS

LIGHTENED.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The mistress of a passenger boat was fined $3 by the Marine Magistrate this morning for carry- ing six passengers in excess of the number allowed. The boat was licensed for eleven and seventeen were counted on board.

According to a Reuter cable. from Minister and Mme. Chu held London, the Chinese

a reception Legation in hohour of Mr. Liang al the Chinese

Shih-ye and the Hongkong repre- sentatives of the British Empire Exhibition. A hundred and fifty Far Eastern guests were present.

„Atalanta talabal

In

to

The s.s. "R. C. Rickmers," the German vessel which was damag- ed and beached at Yaumati, after

For picking the packet of a trying to avoid a trading ink, has compatriot in the Po Hing theatre been repaired sufficiently to allow on Sunday and stealing $3.50 in her to get alongside Kowloon coins, a Chinese was yesterday The sampan left very quickly wharves. She was repaired ten-sentenced by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, A steam launch was hired and the porarily by a diverfrom Taikoo sitting at the Yaumati Magistracy,

Dockyard and after discharging to two months' hard labour. agent chased the sampan. During the remainder of her cargo will evidence, the victim said that as a 2-3 third class, steerage or the chase witness saw bags being proceed to Taikoo Dock, to com-theatre attendant went to fetch a deck passengers from Hongkong thrown into the water. The samplete her repairs.

constable, defendant started and Amoy will be required to pre-pan was brought bark and search-

divide the spoils with an alleged sent, either

ed but nothing was found. When Two batches of Pitman's confederate... vaccination certificate the police launch came alongside shorthand (a) a

certificates arrived signed by the medical offi- defendants were given in charge lately from Bath. The list of

After causing considerable cer attached to the Ameri-

The it defendant's excuse winners is as follows:-Theory-alarm to her owners through being can Consulate at the port of was that it was not his fault. He The Misses Nellie Gubbay, reported pirated, while towing a embarkation: or

had been engaged by the second Myra Guttieres, Anita King, junk from Wuchow to Hongkong, (b) a certificate of vaccination defendant for 50 cents.

Cissie Horley, Julia Remedios, the steam launch The

Chee On," issued by the ship's sur-second defendant said that He Anita Silice, Elisabeth Thomas, (British Bag) returned yesterday Marjorie Warpes, Violet May. with her crew of nine all safe. knew nothing about the matter. Hedviges Silva, Cissie Xavier. Nothing was taken and it seems He had gone to see a friend.

Patricia Remedios, Lolita Rocha that the pirates wanted the launch, and Bertha Smith. Speed words per minute the Misses Iris number of native craft which they 80 for no other purpose than towing a Warnes and Conchita Del Pan. had taken as prizes. Speed 100 wordsi per minute, the Misses Beatrice Gill, Anna Lyen, Violet May and Mary Medina.

geon; or

(e) xtisfactory evidence of

recent successful vaccina- tion. Satisfactory evidence of vaccination means that the passenger will be able to present a recent success- ful "take" as evidenced by sear, or immune reaction;

or

(d) the absence of the re-

quirements as outlined in (a), (b)..or (c), of this paragraph. the passenger will be vaccinated before i being allowed to land af Manila,

The two defendants were fined $25 each, with the alternative of one month's imprisonment.

YAUMATI MAGISTRACY.

THIS MORNING'S VARIED

CASES.

Among the variety of cases before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Yaumati Police Court this

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The Hon. the Attorney General (Mr. J. H. Kemp K. C.) returns to the Colony on Monday.

Five cases of small-pox, one

notified yesterday.

3. All third class, steerage or morning, was a charge of stowing deck passengers who have com-away on the Indo-China s.s. "Sui of diphtheria, and one of cerebo Among those who bade farewellther section (a), (b), or (c), of preferred against Marsa Delano

plied with the requirements of Sang" from Amoy to Hongkong spinal fever, all Chinese, were to Sir William at Blake Pier this the foregoing paragraph, will be (32), described as an unemployed morning were H.E. the Governor,assed through quarantine with tallyman of Japan. Sir Claud Severn (Colonial Secre- tary) Mr. Gill (U. S. Consul out detention, provided no other General) and many other Govern quarantinable disease exists. ment and consular officials.

HAVE YOU A BICYCLE ?

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. de Abney,. Mr. and Mrs, W. Adamson, Mrs. His Worship adjourned the case R. W. Bagot, Mr. C. H. Blason, Sir for Sub-Inspector Spear of the Paul and Lady Chater, Hon. Mr. 4.-Vaccination will not be re-Water Police to inquire if the Chow Sui-ki, Mr. N. A. V. Croucher, quired of first or second cabin Japanese Consul would arrange Mr. E Ralphs, Mr. and Mrs. passengers, except in those cases for defendant to be repatriated. Taggart, Mr. R. F. Mattingley, and in which it is apparent that the An accountant of a Chinese firm Mr. F. P. de V. Soures, are passen- passenger is of the steerage type in Taumati was charged with gers on the outgoing" Empress of and travelling first class in order making a false entry of $150 in Australia.". to avoid the vaccination require his employers books. Mr. D.

Members of the Motor Cycle section of the Hongkong Automoblie Association enjoyed their trip round the New Territories yesterday. About a dozen cyclists started the trip at Holt's Wharf in the morning and procceded by way of Taipo to Fanling where a stop was made for tiffin. At Castle Peak another stop was called and several of the braver spirits cooled themselves in the water. The round tour was completed towards the evening.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

The late Sir Henry Lucy left £250,000.

Mr. E. R. Price has arrived in Hongkong from Bedford to join the China Maif's literary staff.

The Prince of Wales has return-

In connection with the VRC athletic meeting, it has been decid-ments which apply to third class. Caliurn prosecuted and Mr. Leo A very pretty wedding, attended ed to London from le Trouquet,

to

D'Almada defended. was remanded.

ed to throw open the bicycle races steerage or deck passengers.

relatives, The case only by close

was states a Reuter cable from London. all-comers in the Colony. 5. New crew taken on board at

celebrated at the Free Church, There are three cycle events, one the port of Hongkong or Amoy,

Mr. Maurice Jenks, a prominent mile, two miles and three miles, shall be vaccinated prior to board-rope from a licenced, junk in the Miss Helen Ware, daughter of the companied by his wife is staying

For the theft of two lengths of Shanghai, which was artistically

decorated with marguerites, when Londen chartered accountant, aċ- respectively.

ing the vessel, or immediately harbour, a Chinese was sentenced late Rev. and Mrs. James Ware, at Raffles Hotel, Singapore. Mr. thereafter, by the ship's surgeon.to six months' hard labour. He became the bride of Mr. Roland Jenks is on a business trip to the who shall issue a certificate as to was a one-eyed man with a pre Bachrach, son of Mr. and Mrs. Far East,

DINOSAUR REMAINS.

"COMING BRITISH EXPEDI-

TION.

the vaccination status of the crew vious conviction for attempted E. L. Bachrach, of London. The

PASSION.

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ceremony was performed by the A wedding, which attracted Rev. L. W. Faucett, M.A., of St.much interest took place in John's University.

Singapore when Mr. M. E. Joseph, | son of Mr. N. Joseph, was married

pocket-picking.

There were also other cases of petty larceny, unlawful possession and the usual bevy of opium divan and hawker cases which were The death is announced in alto Miss Sarah Ellison, second An expedition which may help GREAT HISTORICAL FILM summarily despatched with small Reuter cable from London of the daughter of Mr. I. Ellison,, the

penallies.

noted novelist Marie Corelli. well-known Singapore contractor, to elucidate the age of the Earth

This afternoon, the Triad Marie Corelli was adopted in builder and merchant, and Mrs. will leave Marseilles in charge of Mr. W. E. Cutler, of the Univer- Just as there are books which Society case will again come up infancy by Charles Mackay, the Ellison.

well-known song-writer and 'litters leave a strong impression in the for hearing.

atçar, and brought up during

A Renter cable from Pittsburg childhood in England. After announces the death of Signora wards she was sent to France and Eleanor Dase, the famous Italian educated in a convent. Her first tragedisome, who had been suffer book, "A Romance of Two ing from influenza. Signora Duse Worlds," was an instant success, came of a histrionic family. Both and from that time she devoted her father, and grandfather were herself entirely to literature. Her actors. She appeared in New York, publications were: A Romance of 1893; London, 1893-94 and before. Two Worlds, 1886; Vendetta, 1886; Queen Victoria at Windsor in 1894.

sity of Manitoba.

The expedition, which is sent by mind for several days after they the British Museum (Natural have been read so are there movie History), intends to explore the plays which keep recurring to the fossil remains, millions of years thoughts. One of these, is now old, in the Tanganyika Territory, showing at the Coronet Theatre- Passion, the great historical Sim

FOOTBALL.

SOUTH CHINA PLAYS THE REST.

Before the war, when this part depicting the romantic life of of East Africa belonged to Ger- Madame du Barry, the winsome many, remains of gigantic dino-ttle French milliner who became Baurs, now in Berlin, were dis- chief favourite of Louis XV and As a rival attraction to the race Thelma, 1887; Ardath, 1889; Soul Deceased was in her sixty-third covered. It is proposed to reopen ruled a kingdom in his name, only meeting at Happy Valley, the of Lilith, 1892; Barabbas, 1893; year? the sites of these discoveries at to perish at the guillotine when football match yesterday, afternoon The Sorrows of Satan, 1895; Tendaguru and in the Mbemkuru the French Revolution broke out drew thousands of spectators and Mighty Atom, 1896; The Murder of valley.

o all its terror. The vivid im even standing room was not avall Mr. L. S. B. Leakey, of St. pression which "Passion" leaves able long before the match sun John's College, Cambridge, will in the mind is due to more than accompany the expedition.

ed.

Mr. H. J. Timperley, who bas Dellcla. 1806 Ziska: the Problem been on the China Mail's literary of a Wicked Soul, 1897; Jane, 1897; staff for the past three years, left the Kashima Boy, 1900; The Master Christian, Hongkong by the fascinating story. There is South China faced a team select 1900; Temporal Power, "A Study Maru" to-day for Shenghai, «n also the brilliant acting of Pola ed from the other teams in the in Supremacy, 1902: God's Good route to Peking, where he joins Negri as Madame du Barry, while senior league and a goalless draw Man, 1904; Free Opinions, 1905;

Reuter's office. Mr. Timperley has aqually notable is the splendid resulted.

The Treasures of Heaven, 1906 wide circle of fiends here; staging, especially in the great After the game the first league Holy Orders, 1908; The Devil's especially among the members of Baghdad. April 20-Extre court pageants and the terrible cup and other trophies were pre Meter, 1910; The Life Everlasting, the Ex-Active Service Men's mists stablied in the street two mob scenes when the Bastille is sented. A cannonade of crackers 1911: Innocent, Her Fancy and Association which he helped to deputies known to favour the rati- stormed and the Palace is taken was sent off at the South China His Fact, 1914: The Young Diana, form, and for which he was joint fication of the Anglo-Irak Treaty. From every standpoint "Passion" club when the cup was brought 1917; My Little Bit a Record of Honorary Secretary for some

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War Work, 1919.

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