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Temperature 58 Barometer 30 00

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"CHINESE XMAS.”

A CHRISTMAS PLEA.

Mr. Wood Lenient In Judgment.

INSPECTOR MURPHY'S DEATH.

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TO-DAY'S WINTER FESTIVAL,

SERVANTS' CHANCE.

Specious Demands For" Cumshaw.

New Year Eve is the proper time,

CHANCE TO REFORM.

INCIDENT IN COURT,

At the Central Magistracy this morning, before Mr. J. R. Wood.

POLICE FORCE LOSS.

FALL FROM VERANDAH.

Sleep-Walking

Supposed

Accident.

Sub-Inspector James Murphy of the Hongkong Police Force passed away at the Government Civil Hospital last night, following a sleep-walking accident last Tuesday.

This news will be received with Police station and was found to

Do not be surprised if your house boy suggests a "cumshaw" Of course, there is a compara- or a holiday for Christmas, tively small Chinese Christian unemployed: seaman named Although he is not Hikely to be'a community who regard Christmas John J. O'Sullivan was charged Christian he is interested in the in the same light as other Chris- with behaving in a noisy and dis- festive season because; for him, it tians and who celebrate it in the orderly manner at the Seamen's regret by many outside the Force have sustained severe injuries. commences "what he calls the same manner, according to in- Institute on Saturday evening, for Mr. Murphy's was a person- It was these injuries and shock "Chinese Christmas, by which he dividual means. Most of the and further with using threaten ality which made him many that were the cause of death. means the Winter Solstice Festival department stores will take a ing and abusive language towards friends. on December 22,

holiday, but the majority of both. G. H. Sellwood, the manager generous man, his loss will be attributed to a habit which Mr.

A conscientious and "Tung Chih" as the Festival is masters' and mens guilds, will.

The cause of the accident was of the Institute. called. Is" determined by Chinese lunar calendar. Strange the day of the Solstice. A straight stated that O'Sullivan was turned ficiently into contact with him to was attired in pyjamar when

the probably observe the holiday on, Divisional

greatly felt by his police comrades, Murphy had lately been addicted Inspector Aris and those others who came suf- to of walking in his sleep. to say it is never more than a day run of four days off will be wel-out of the Institute by Mr. Sell appreciate his sterling qualities. found and it is surraised that he He out as compared with December comed by the majority of Chinese wood on Friday owing to mis- 22 in the Gregorian calendar. employed in European offices for behaviour and drunkenness and early morning of December 16 dah which, his quarters adjoined. It will be recalled that in the fell from the second floor veran- Its chief importance lies in it un opportunity to visit friends and warned not to come back. On Sub-Inspector being one of the four settlement, relatives in Canton and "Canton Saturday evening the defendant picked up in an unconscious state officers days of the year. On account of more far."

Murphy

" WAS Mr Murphy was one of the its proximity to China New Year!

entered the premises in a drunken | in the compound of the Central supervise search work in connec

specially detailed which is necessarily the biggest | settlement day in the Chinese

tion with the Piracy Prevention Ordinance. year, its importange has declined!

He was a single Land it has come to be looked upor

man as a preliminary reckoning for the grand finale.

Actually there is little open celebration. At home the women- folk will certainly "chin-chin-jos" and send one another eatables, but the menfolk, will contine their respects to a celebration at West Point.

Just as Easter is called by the uknowing, the "European Ching. Ming." Ching Ming, being the period of ancestor-worship at the tombs falling every year about Easter, so Christmas is called the "European Tung Chih." On the other hand the uneducated Chinese will say that, December, 22 "b'long Chinese Christmas," whereas they mean nething of the sort. If gratuities are demanded it should be pointed out that China

CAUGHT A TARTAR

HOLD-UP MAN, STOPS DETECTIVE.

AWAITING TRIAL NOW.

W

RUSSIA WANTS HER FLEET BACK.

Here is the Russian fleet, interned by the French since the war, the return of which has been demanded by the Soviet, now that France gid Russia have resumed relations,

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, and ill-clad condition, and used

SPECIAL SESSION PLANNED IN LONDON.

GENEVA PROTOCOL DISCUSSION.

(Reuter's Service)

London, December 22,

were

WEEK-END CASUALTIES.

CHILD DROWNED IN HARBOUR.

DEATH IN THE STREET.

to

As many of the European police as can be spared from duty will accompany the body from the Hospital to the last resting place at four o'clock to-day.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

FOUR. CHINESE UNDER ARREST.

A CURIOUS CHAIN.

The arrest has been effected by the police of four Chinese, forming part of a gang of about seven, who were concerned In a highway robbery incident on Saturday. The arrest was brought about under peculiar circumstances. A Shanghai Chinese, who is a valet to an army official named Chit Dio-siu travelling on the 5.5. “Kwong Tai" to Shanghat, came

ashore to do some marketing. In a-secluded part of Second Street. The was attacked by about seven men. On attempting to run away, the men seized him and marched The-week-end casualties includ-him to the Police Station.. Taking him off on the pretence of taking ed two victims of traffic accidents, the and two deathss

man to a side lane, he was relieved of three gold

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We beg to an-

we

nounce that as

obscene language towards the manager. A report was made at the Police Station, but on the arrival of the police the defendant had gone away. He was taken into custody shortly after noon on Sunday After leaving the A detective on duty at West

Institute and until the time of his Point on Saturday night was ap-

arrest, the defendant is alleged to proached by a Chinese who asked

have been implicated in various. One of the accidents was that rings, $15 in money, and two him to what company he be

squabbles which ended in a in which a motor car, driven by watches. The victim, as soon as longed. Although this may sound invitations will be issued to a station, for not paying his fare.in the New Territories, yesterday to the Police Station and made a It is confidently expected ricsha coolie bringing him to the Mr. A. H. Barlow'at. Taipo Road his assailants had left him, hurried like-an-army-phrase, the informa- special Imperial Conference in The complainants in the latter knocked down and injured, a report. tion sought was as to which London at an early date to dis- cases guild he had joined. The cuss the Geneva Protocol, detective: replied that he was a

not bringing any Chinese woman, who had to be charges against the defendant.

Sub-Inspector Shaftain and a The general policy of the The defendant, drawing the carpenter by trade and, belonged Empire

taken to the Kyong Wah Hospital party of detectives set out with the to no organization. The Chinese

On the question

The other occurred at Laichikok complainant, and ten minutes later then asked for the loan of a few security will be cabled from gentle whistle, stated that he when he crossed the path of a lone of his assailants.

of attention of His Worship by a Rdad, a Chinese being injured one man was pointed out dallars, as his company appeared London to the Dominions at the pleaded guilty to the charges Kai Tak motor bus. This man was

The man be.. badly in need of week-end

was brought to the Police Station funds, at the same time making

brought by Mr. Sellwood, but also removed to hospital.

and the party set out again. Not his demand more emphatic by

knew nothing about the other in A Chinese girl was drowned long after the complainant shouted It appears, says the Obsereidents. In a pathetic appeal he yesterday when she dropped over-out"There are two more." On. producing a sharpened instrument. Vers" diplomatic correspondent, asked His Worship not to send board from a sampan which was carrying out a search of the two The detective said he had only 40 that Mr. Austen Chamberlain has him behind prison bars at Christ being towed across the harbour, one of them had a silver watch cents in his pocket, which he was made up his mind that security ismas. If you will give me a asked to produce. The Chinese the moat important question con- chance," he said, "I will promise

Sudden Death.

and chain which the complainant received a rude shock when he fronting him

An elderly Chinese, giving the identified as his property. Proceed- next found that he was gazing to ment of the evacuation of the again." In answer to a question poorer class, dropped on the pave shouted again "There's another." The postpone to behave properly and not drink appearance of belonging to the with the prisoners along Water the barrel of a revolver, and that Cologne Zone is really due to the as to how he lost his last job, thement at the junction of Des Voeux A'search of this man disclosed a Street, the complainant suddenly he had been trying to impose on a fact that evacuation would raise defendant said that he had to Road Central and Queen Victoria receipt from the Sun Company, deléctive.

The man was safely placed be the question of security.

questions immediately affecting enter hospital with a fractured Street, the block adjoining the new also a lock and key which were hind the bars on Saturday night, Government's policy emphatically the Divisional Inspector proved few minutes. The body was re-

The leg, which on investigation from, steel structure, at about 7.85 p.m. identified by the complainant as his and will be charged before the will

yesterday: Life was extinct in a property. Magistrate in due course.

Empire policy. to be correct!

CROWN RIGHTS

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LAND APPROPRIATED IN

NEW TERRITORY.

OWNERS' CONTENTION.

POLICY OF EMPIRE.

De

an

Elemental questions, affecting the The Magistrate; I am giving moved to the mortuary twenty whole Empire must be faced in you a chance on the understand-inutes later. India, Egypt, the Mediterranean, ing that you will be severely pun- North Africa, the Pacific and the ished if brought up again. Rhine. Thus, in Government's

The defendant thanked His

view, the Singapore project is Worship and left the Court with linked up for example with the a smile on his face. question of Cologne.

The main energy of Govern- ment in foreign affairs for the next few months will be devoted

Lands In the New Territory, to an attempt to achieve world which had been compulsorily taken security through the medium of over by the Crown and compensa-the League of Nations. tion paid, were the subject of legal argument before Sir Henry Cowper Gollan in the Supreme Court this morning.

The engagement is announced between Marion, only daughter of Mr. Harold Porter, acting British

Mr. F. C. Jenkin, for the owners Consul General at Mukden, ond

CAIRO

MURDER.

STUDENT LEADER SURREŊ- DERS TO-AUTHORITIES

(Reuter's Service.)

BETTER WEATHER.

MORE FAVOURABLE -REPORTS GENERALLY.

course.

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were brought down from Shanghai It is believed that the defendants by the complainant's master to serve as labourers in Canton. When they arrived in Can- ton, they were drafted into the army and later absconded. The complainant was apparently recognised by the defendants, who Captain Gibbs of the 8.5. "Sze. lost no time in getting revenge. chuan," which left Amoy on before the Magistrate in due The arrested men will be charged December 20, reports having encountered a strong monsoon. chow," which arrived from Shang- The commander of the s.s. "Yin- hai yesterday, reports "fresh mon-

Mr. A. R. Erskine, president soon, fine and clear." The s.s. of the Studebaker Corporation of "Honghwa" experienced a fresh South Bend, Ind., has mailed to monsoon throughout the voyage, friends in Shanghai copies of a from Singapore. Cairo, December 21,

On the whole, handsomely bound book covering claimed empowered them to take Police, second son of Sir Frederick leader who mysteriously disfavourable than during the pre- the Studebaker. Company since ite

reports, from all ships arriving.j possession, were ultra vires because Bourne, C.M G., and Lady Bouras, appeared the day after the mur ceding ten days,

Gayar, the student lover the week-end are more the history of the development of they were at variance with the in- late of Shanghai, siructions given under the signed nandate and treaty between China

der of Sir Lee Stack (the and Great Britain. The two Ordi-announce that owing to the later dered to the Procurateur-General, Mr. Edgar Warwick regrets to Sirdar), this morning surren nances concerned were the Crown departure of the "Kalyan," from who is conducting the enquiry Lands Resumptions Ordinance of Singapore, it will not now be pussiinto the murder of the Sirdar. 1900 and the New Territories Re-ble for the Wish Wynne Company gulation Ordinance of 1910.

Mr. Potter, whilst holding that Theatre Royal on Boxing-Night-as-i:

to commence. it's season at the the Ordinances were not straps, originally announced. The open-ath Road, occupied by a pork Armed robbers entered No. 40, claimed that even if they were it ing performance will now take stull holder, yesterday. There were. would not affect the case. There place on Saturday next instead, four men in the gang, two of whom was full power, he claimed, for the and tickets already booked at were armed with revolvers. Qu Colonial Laws Validity Act. action taken, in Section 4 of the Mautrio's for Boxing Night may be taining the keys of the wife, they exchanged for Saturday or any stala money and fewellery amount (Case proceeding).

other night during the seasoning to $6,591.40

of the land, contended that the Mrs. Porter, to Major Kenneth. Ordinances, which the Crown Bourne, M.C. Shanghak Municipal

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:

estahBshment in 1830 by John Studebaker, who was a descen- dant of an old Dutch farally which SHARE QUOTATIONS,

emigrated to the United States from Rotterdara, Holland in 1786, The story is so typical of the de- Tis.

velopment of many leading Amer- Langkatsrades 224 Buyers ican-industries in that it started: 12.10 Buyer as a small blacksmith and wagon- Shanghat Docks... 108 Buyers making shop and in time de- Now Engineerings 7.40 Buyaca-veloped into one of the leading The above, kindly supplied by motor came, the firm went into Orientals 4 Buyers wagon-making factories in the Messrs. J. Gould & Co, were the this line and now is one of the Shanghai, Cottons 58. Buyers, United States. Then when the opening quotations on the Shanghaf leading motor manufacturing in- market this morning.

dustries in the world.

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new-premises

situated in

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Queen's Road,

Central and will

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as

from the 15th of

December.

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