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FRIDAY JUNE 6, 1924

CORRESPONDENCE,

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE 'OF STUDENTS.

[To the Editor of the China Mail,]

Sir-I am directed by the Chairman of the University Union

the University and of its students, that the Council of the Union hus appointed Mr. Edward Ho Tung as the Representative of the Student-Body of the University to the Imperial Conference of Stu dents to be held in London and Cambridge from July 18th to the

AMERICAN. FLYERS,

EXPECTED HERE SUNDAY

NOON.

ARRANGEMENTS READY,

The China Mail learns from Mr. Shaw, of the Standard Oil Com

JAPAN'S PROTEST.

PLAYING ON THE CROWD'S FEELINGS.

national anti-exclusion

THE CHINA MAIL.

EXPERT BILLIARDS.

STUBBS ROAD.

HOW THE DISTRICT IS BEING DEVELOPED.

GOOD PROGRESS MADE.

MR. STEVENSON'S HONG- KONG MATCHES.

TALK OF "DISGRACE,"

Hongkong billiards supporters are looking forward eagerly to the TOKYO, June 5.

series of matches which Mr. H. W.

A run up Stubbs Rond any Stevenson will play during his This afternoon some 250 brief stay in Hongkong. He in-afternoon for those who do not to inform you. as one who is Pany, who is in charge of the citizens filled the "huge wrestling tends participating in three or four,] make use of th. ad daily, wit! keenly interested in. the work og arrangements for the reception hall to its capacity for the first one of which will probably be stag-provide interesting glimpses of the

protest ut Hongkong of the American flyers, that the aviators are meeting prompted by publicists ed at the Hongkong Club, but all progress made in the development

the dates have not been fixed as of that part of the upper levels... expected here about hoon on including representatives of every

yet

From the approaches to Happy Sunday. Mr. Shaw had received Lower House political party or Tonight he will concede 350 in Valley the many buildings now A resolution game of 800 up to Mr. P A. going up and sites in the course of the flyers left Shanghai this morn no message but he thought thatisation, moderate and extreme, as

well as the Press:

Yvanovich (former Hongkong preparation on the lower half of was carried to the effect that:- ing.

All steps must be taken to champion and this year's chal- Stubbs Road can easily be seen. Arrangements for the clearance maintain Japan's position against lenger) at the Club Lusitano. Our One improvement which will be

champion, Mr. A. J. Osmund is which has been reserved for the ton Bill."

that locality and those who use the appropriate to publicly mention ayers were definitely made this

The large attendance which was cap at the Catholic Union Club to road to travel by motor to the here how much the Union is in-rink. The U.S.N. destroyer due as much to the holiday as to its debted to Mr. Ho Tung for the

Mr. Stevenson visited the Colony Peak, is the putting up of electric {"Paul Jones” is anchored off the purpose of the meeting, re- willing and prompt.consideration Stonecutters to guard the buoys.

years ago. He won the English lights on both sides of the road at sponded enthusiastically to

Championship in 1901 and 1905 and close intervals. Nearly all the with which he responded to the

of speeches! which At the airmen's request nothing series students' call for help in this has been arranged in the way of emphasised the seriousness of the lost in the 1919 final. During his posts have been erected and the stay in Shanghai he met some of lower part of Stubbs Road, ie, the best cueists up there and gave below the hairpin bend, ought to The official invitation from the public entertainment here. They disgrace inflicted on Japan as an

Asiatics, wherefore Japan some delightful expositions of be sufficiently well-lighted in the National Union of Students (Eng-expect to remain here for Sunday attempt to

billiards,

course of a few weeks. land) for a representative from night.

should strive to strengthen her national power on behalf not only of herself but of all Asiatics.

The promoters propuse to or ganise a nation-wide campaign to the gravity of the situation.- Reater.

31st, 1924. It would, perhaps, be of that section of Laichikok Bay America's Anti-Japanese Immig likely to play with a similar hand highly appreciated by residents in |

matter.

Commander Smith Interviewed.

Hongkong University to the Im- Licut Smith has informed perial Conference of Students. Reuter's that their Agency was reached us on June 1st, together with a letter from its President, the first to tell him that he had Mr. Ralph. Nunn May. laying stress on the special significance of such a conference and the

to

close while lands

been appointed commander of the calling the attention of the people light, though he expected it.

he found the trouble: Lieut. Smith said he had had troublous times

DANGEROUS

GOODS.

$100 FINE FOR STORING WITHOUT LICENCE.

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On June 14, Mr. Stevenson is due to leave by the "Kashgar" for Singapore and Banbay, en route for Home.

INDIAN GUARDS.

On the sites above the hairpin bend, several houses are being completed while retaining walls are being put up for many others. The wonderful strides that have been made up to the present, with His accident, at Kagoshima was

out taking into consideration other due to the copper binding on the

additions and improvements pro- urgent necessity of closo co-opera-ontoon, which gave a resistance

jected. form ample answer to tion by all the Universities of the

Before Licut. Commander Con- those who expressed doubts when Empire. Mr. Ho Tung was hus preventing the machine from

way Hake. .... sitting as the ambitious scheme of opening once nominated by the Chairmanising. He tried for three hours

Marine Magistrate at the Marine up the eastern upper levels was of the Union, and as the restito remedy the fault. and finally

Court yesterday afternoon, Phail, first mooted. of a Circular passed on June Bed, donned a bathing suit and went to

Wan, an Indian: guard

of the

The hairpin bend referred to the Council officially appointed the bottom of the pontoon, where

Macuo steamer Chuen Chow," bears promise of being an import. him as the Representative of this

Mr. E. W. Hamilton emphasised was charged with absenting himself ant motor crossing. Branching University to the Conference, at which he is to sit in the capacity Practically at every stage until the necessity of storing dangerous from the ship without leave. off from Stubba Road is the road

this, which was the easiest goods in properly licensed Ko-

Captain Frederick Jones stated to Repulse Bay and another skirt- imaginable. The weather was downs when he fined Chan Lan- splendid and the landing arrange-fong $100 at the Kowloon Magis-that after the ship left Hongkong ing the other side of Wong-Nei- ments entirely satisfactory. Lt. tracy this morning. As an instance, on June 2 he noticed only tive Chong Valley. Smith's lying time was Chours he quoted the recent disaster at guards on board, and defendant To a layman's eye it appears as Shansuipo where four people the sixth) was seen on the Hong-if yet another road is being made Lieut. Smith anticipated start-were killed in an explosion,

kong wharf when the ship got back which will connect Stubbs Road Chan, a firecracker manufacturer here the following day.

bend almost directly with the foot of 315 Reclamation St.

The No. 1 guard and another of Wong-Nei-Chong village which charged with storing dangerous

Happy Valley tram lines. goods (chlorate of potash) without guard, who stand charged with means only a few paces, from the dence in a godown in Argyle disobeying tho orders of the master should offer the district very easy

gave evidence that defendant made Street.

!communication with the tramway On arrival Mr. H. Macnamara, for the the trip to Macao,

and therefore render it easily defence, said his client pleaded back at Hongkong he was posted accessible to other than motor guilty, but explained that he at the wharf to prevent coolies traffic.

of a plenipotentiary, although the appointment was not given any publicity at the time.

The choice of Mr. Ho Tung was not, however, made in order to 45 minutes to cover 560 miles. take advantage of his proceeding

to the Exhibition Wembley.ing on Saturday or Sunday. Indeed, the Council was too aware

ARMED ROBBERS.

THIS MORNING'S VAIN ATTEMPT.

POLICE SEARCH FERRISS.

was

This

of the inultifarious services he had rendered to the students to allow such an important mission to be entrusted to a less worthy person. Mr. Ho Tung, it should be men-i tioned, has been Chairman of the University Union, and he and his

did not

know he had to rushing on board. There he was Indications also exist that Council did much towards recur-

get a licence, for

storing seen by the captain who called Stubbs Road will be widened to ing the incomprehensibility of

chlorate of potash. The chlorate defendant up and said that he cope with the large number of! spine of the intricate problems

was stored separately and was not would be reported.

motor vehicles which make use of with which the excentive body or Residents who travelled by the

dangerous 'It only became dan-

His Worship said he could not it and the auxiliary road should the Union. like all other such "Star" Ferry between eleven" and

The also help. Another convenience bodies, has frequently to be con- noon this morning were surprised gerous when it was mixed with

other substances. His client had consider the case proved. fronted. As Chairman of the to see a party of police officers been recracker manufacturer charge against the other two would talked of is the building of a chair-

What had Arts Association, and working in searching passengers.

for twenty years and chlorate of be proceeded with this afternoon. coolies' shelter at the bend. conjunction with the amiable Pro-occurred previonsly was that an fasser Hinton, he made 1829 a attempt had been made by two potash was used in his business, year at very successful student armed men to carry out a robbery It was the first time he had been

summonsed.

explosive

"The Magistrate said that apart

at a Chinese tenement at the

Police evidence showed that the achilies. As regards his activis second floor of No. 3. Li Chit chlorate was stored in a godown, tes in Logard Hall, suffice it to Street in the Wanchai district..

It say that while they have won for

One of the men had a dagger but exposed and very damp.

was among other him only admiration from else and the other brought a dagger where, they have, in that distin along with him.

They succeed materials. "guished Hostel, almost command- in getting up to the floor but the ed a genuine idolization from gone alarm was raised and they decamp. of his tristed friends. Mr. Hoed. Nothing was stolen. Tung its been prominent also in As has been usual lately police

were throwi various other spheres of activities cordons in the University, and the immediately the report was made, popularity and esteem which he hence the search at the ferry wharf now enjoys, as a result of his use- As searchers are on regular duty fulness and magnanimity, cannot at the Yaumati and other wharves claim to be anything beyond what nothing extraordinary was noticed

on the other ferries. is his, duc..

PIRATES' ESCAPE.

KONGMOON INCIDENT

EXPLAINED.

Ou

..

TIMES ENTERPRISE."

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

SECTION.

Contractors' motor lorries are running up and down almost with- out stop and it seems safe to predict that ia matter of months the district will become a distinct residential area within ten or Afteen minutes' reach of town. Repulse Bay and the southern part of the island will also be near at hand, thanks to the excellent road

from the fact that this stuff was} "Entering the Exhibition at stored without a licence, it led to Wembley, millions of British sub-over the hills. other things. In the recent explojects will ascend the Heights of sión chlorate of potash was stored Enspire. Spread before them is without a licence. The storekeeper the wondrous reality of Britain's on that occasion said he did not might and magnitude, her grandeur and her glory. "Riches ar d romance, know the stuff was dangerous.

ancient civilisation. Bowering in

BARBARIC CRUELTY.

HAWKER'S METHOD OF KILLING DUCKS.

of Ill-treatment-

iWo ducks amounting almost to torture, was alleged against a Chinese hawker Magistracy this morning on a charge of cruelty.

MR. HEUGHAN

modern enterprise, the limitless FAMOUS SINGER'S RETURN range of activity and achievement! the scene is without parallel ini the history of mankind.""

VISIT,

In such inspiring and appropriate Mr. William Heughan, the phrase, a special supplement of famous Scottish singer who The Times called the British Em recently visited Hongkong, TR- pire Section" receives its introduce turns to the Colony next week tion on a front page which. is after a very successful tour of the artistically set out and instantly North. His Scottish night in cellent style of the Times, the sup; been one of the most enthusiastic plement contains, 32 pages issued

On Wednesday the China Moir, 1.When he appeared at the Kowloon arresting. Printed in the usual exShanghai saw what must have

Kongmoon correspondent reported as follows:-

were

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of

Evidence given by the Police showed that the hawker was seen to dip two ducks into boiling water outside Yaumati Market and then cut their throats. Sixteen ducks nearby were already dead:

them.

on

There is also an "The

Lights of

It is regrettable that we have not as yet received from England any definite programme for that proceedings of the Conferener, and the investing Mr. Ho Tung with full powers seems to be absolgely | necessary under the circumstances. Such subjects as the early allo tims of the British. Boxer. Indem- nity for educational purpose in

on the opening day, April 23. gatherings in the Settlement's The lanach Fung Hing" China, with particular considera-

Every angle of the exhibition is history. The pipers and drum- alleged to have been used as a sion to the only British University

dealt with by a score of well known mers of the Shanghai "Scottish piratical craft, has been captured

journalists. One of the chief were present, playing before the in the Far East, the Union's

by one of the Hongkong armed

features is a double page concert and during the interval, hearty endorsement of the proposal

launches for protecting convoys.

photograph of Wembley taken The succeeding nights were little | from the National Union of

The prize is now in the custody

Despite the hawker's denial of from the air. From the picture an less successful, and in each Students (England) to bring China

of the Customs.

this ill-treatment he was fined $25. idea of the magnitude of the instance, there was a crowded into the Confederation Inter From inquiries made locally it

Another Chinese was charged Exhibition can be gained.

house. Mr. Heughan's visits to nationals des Etudiants and its 10-has since been made out that with carrying ducks by their wings

Hongkong has a little comer in Tientsin and Pelting were also pirates »mised help to bring about such a there

splendid movement, and the ascer board "the "Fung Hing What and causing unnecessary pain to the supplement with an advert remarkably successful, the Tien- which gives a nutshell history of tain papers describing them as a tainment of the conditions of post-Fung Hing manned by soldiers, said he was not an expert in the article

actually happened was that the

Mr. Hamilton, the Magistrate, the Colony?"

triumph.. graduate study in Great Britain by had been attacked by a fast armed husiness, but he knew that when a Hongkong

Mr. Heughan's return visit to Chinesa students, have been un-

"The publication is worth keeping the Colony is necessarily brief as officially suggested to Mr. Ho launch that had previously been rabbit was lifted up by its ears. it

used by a military officer. The looked cruel, but that was apparent as a

souvenir of the historic he is due for engagements in Australia and elsewhere. He is Tung, who will hanself undoubted escort launch proceeded to the ly the proper way. He asked if occasion.

giving two concerts here this time, ly introduce for discussion at the rescue but pwing to shallow water anybody in Court knew which was

the first in the Star Theatre on Conference such problems of in-and inferior speed it soon lost the proper way to carry ducks.

Wednesday night next and the portance to the University and its sight of the fast launch on which The reply, came that ducks should

second in the Peak Club the students as his knowledge of the the pirates escaped.

he carried by their feet.

following night. After his fine institution permits. But there can The captured launch was taken

The defendant was fined $5. bo no slindow of doubt as to the back to Pak Kai where an inquiry

Notice has been given that the performances here before and his full force of energy with which he was held. Each of the men on

POLICE INSPECTION. light vessel "Kemmendine, at outstanding success in the North, hoard was examined separately will represent the interests of the and all told the same story. There

the approach to Rangoon harbour, he is assured large audiences on University, particularly those of the was nothing to be done but release HE GOVERNOR TO ATTEND will be placed on her station at both occasions. Student-Body, at the Imperial Con- the launch and the crew of soldiers. Perence of Students, and I am suto that the public interested in the welfare of the University of Hong- kong will join with us in wishing Mr. Ho Tung every auecern at the Conference. He left for England per the "Kashima Maru" on the 4th, inst.

I am further directed by the and a good-will which will be Chairman of the Union to express securely made se o banis upon through your columns to the public which a closer bond of friendship of Hongkong, the Union's deep between the public and, the Univer seated appreciation of the kindly sity may be effected. interest and good-will which it has uniformly displayed in the work of

the students of the University,-

an internat which will always serve as a source of encouragement to radoabled efforts by the students,

NAVAL FUNERAL.

ANNUAL EVENT.

H.E, the Governor will inspect the Hongkong Police Force on The naval funeral will take June 11. place this evening of Petty Officer The inspection, which will he Frank P. Waterworth, who died attended by all the customary last night in the Naval Hospital, ceremony will take place at the Central Police parade ground at 4.30 in the afternoon.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

}

C, Z. M. MA, › Secretary University Union. Hongkong, June 0th, 1924.

RANGOON HARBOUR.

On her bow will be the spil exhibited her usual lights (fixed white light visible twelve miles) The temputury light vessel brig "Arya" will be brought into Rangoon.

CIVIL WAR.

A CLAN FIGHT?

NAVAL YARD COOLIE SERIOUSLY INJURED.

. In a hglit at Wanchai-apparently between rival workers yesterday. a coolie employed in the Naval Yard was seriously injured and had to be taken to the Government Civil Hospital. “

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A police report states that Ng calling on Bengal on Tirana They have sent as ministers to resign and urging the ultimatum to the Government de Chan, the victim received scalp resignation of the Governor, Lord manding its resignation. Govern and body wounds as a result of Lytton, on the ground that hement troops at Alessio, which is the battle. Ten other coolies set

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