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WEMBLEY PROSPECTS.
пета
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sion must be judged in the light of the confusing circumstances in which it was made (Jellicoe had not expected to sight the memy when he did, visibility was bað, and the roar of battle was all around him), It certainly led to {the missing of the decisive moment for the full use of our
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1925).
ARMS EVIL...
IMPORTANT SHANGHAI
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SEARCHES DURING VOYAGE.
A FLOUR TIN.
AMMUNITION CONCEALED.
"
A SMART PENALTY.
Before Mr. N. L. Smith," at the The Shanghai Municipal Coun- Central Magistracy this morning, undoubted superiority in gunell recently appointed a Special Ho Ngan-chau described as
power-out of twenty-seven ships engaged only thirteen fired on the enemy and but few of them were in a position to be able to hit. This is the version of the affair given by a writer in the "Review of
Committee to inquire into the
10
question of the smuggling of travelling trader, was charged re-arms and to suggest what with the possession of 49`rounds might be done to check. following report contains the
recommendations made.
The of ammunition.
13
Sub-Inspector Fallon prose- cuted, and Mr. N. I Brewer
Reviews." "What are the conclu- The Committee was appointed defended.
sions to be drawn from the battle?
At the time the Admiralty issued by the Council to inquire into the
The case for the prosecution circumstances attendant upon the a very misleading communiqué;
was that the accused came to public opinion felt there was into Shanghai and its vicinity, his way to Swatow, having with
prevalence of
arma-emuggling Hongkong from Java and was on something wrong and wounded and the close connection thereof him a tin containing what ap- from the fleet were met with aigns with the prevalence of armed rob
sive measures.
of dieupprobation
On the tin when they beries, and to make recommend peared to be flour. landed at Rosyth. This was tions to the Council with a view officers under the Piracy. Preven
being opened and examined by unfair but public opinion was not to the adoption of suitable represion Ordinance prior to the sail- altogether at fault; accustomed as this" country is to naval victory, on the grand scale, Jutland must by the Committee on November the contents with the ammuni Two meetings have been helding of the sa. "Amakusa Máru," a small tin box was found among be regarded as Inconclusive and 10 and November 24, and the disappointing. Jellicoe was set minutes of these meetings have one of the most supreme tests been forwarded to the Council The accused's story was that for information. A question- the package was given to him by
ever get mortal man. To handle that huge fleet of enormous "ships
SPECIAL DETECTIVES.
tion..
A fine of $200 was imposed, (1) That as the employment of
detectives by certain ship- and an order made for the con- ping companies has led to fiscation of the ammunition. moat beneficial results, all
FORGOT ABOUT IT! the more important shipping In another case, Tse-Lui-nam, companies should be asked previously manager of the Tung" to adopt like measures, both Tin Restaurant and partner in a at ports of loading and on Chinese firm at No. 90, Jervois board the ship: also that Street, was charged with the pos- with e view to making it session of 15 rounds of ammuni- more difficult for suspected tion. persons to convey contraband
Detective-Sergeant Andrew aboard ship the Municipal stated that the accused was Police should endeavour to
secure the co-operation of the granted a licence in 1922 in res- Police at Continental ports pect of a revolver and 50 rounds Where it is known that arms was removed to Canton at the of ammunition. The revolver and ammunition are taken end of 1923 without a proper per-
at high speed, to have vital deci-naire was submitted to the Com a friend in Java to take to sions to make in a few seconds mittee as a basis for discussion, another man in the village. The and as the result of careful con-package contained flour for mak- under conditions of noise, uncer- tainty and baling light, all theseideration, the following recom-ing cakes, and he was unaware that there was any ammunition things must be borne in mind mendations were recorded:
inside it. when commenting on what he did. Viewing the action in the calm of the study one can see that he made obvious mistakes.. It must be agreed that he was severely decision. With the return of the hampered by the scanty and Colony's chief Commissioner, the inaccurate information which he Hon. Mr. Hallifax, the Govern- received relative to the position or ment should be in a position to the German battle fleet but he had his own destroyers and light know whether, when the matter cruisers available and might well- is raised in the Legislative Coun- have made more use of them to cil, the official majority should gain intelligence and his handling of the feet during the night is vote a further subsidy or should
open to very severe criticism hold aloof. The public is largely indeed." ignorant regarding the financial side of the matter, but unless it can be shown that the money will be utterly wasted, the public; we are sure, will strongly favour the Hongkong pavilion being reopened, if not quite upon the same scale as last year, at least in a manner that will preserve its distinctive character. Hongkong is one of J. C. the most picturesque names in the long list of Empire outposts, and the Exhibition, not less than the Colony itself, would suffer a loss through the absence of the Hong- The company comprises ten (3) kong pavilion that no saving of formers in a melodious and mirth- capable and well trained per-
dollars could quite outweighful entertainment along the lines. Taking the Imperial viewpoint, made popular by the Co-optimists. To aspire to the pinnacle of therefore, we would strongly urge excellence reached by the latter the Government to see that Hong may seem merely ambition and
貸む must (4)
PANTALOONATICS,
́CLEVER, COMPANY FROM
HM.S. DURBAN "
TREAT AT THE STAR.
By kind permission of Captain Hamilton, R.N., the Pantaloonatics, the exceedingly clever revue company from H.M.S. Kowloon, to-morrow (Tuesday) and "Durban" will appear at the Star. Wednesday night.
kong is again suitably represented nothing more; but that the when the great pageant of Pantaloonhuis do
Wembley is once more thrown believe on the authority of our
Shanghal contemporaries open to the world.
Church Going.
recent
This must be said in advance→→ the scenic and lighting effects are nothing if not superb. They make |the ordinary semi-dramatic enter- tainment even' in some famous Following the
con-playhouses seem very small fry troversy on church going-non- indeed. That was the net impres church going should be the proper siön received from a visit to the phrase!-a layman anonymously | Star during one of the rehearsals. gives expression to his views in As the prices of admission are the January issue of "St. John's only $2 and $1, respectively, and Cathedral Notes." He is frankness as fifty per cent, of the proceeds personified. Thus, he refers to the will be devoted to charity, there business men who pay a visit to should be packed houses on both the Cathedral and afterward com- nights plain that "they couldn't. hear a word," or the sermon was "not worth listening to" whilst the "sloppiness" of an unprepared discourse is picked out as grating "THE COVERED WAGON" on one's ears The lay corres-
THE CORONET. pondent appears to put his finger on the right spot -affecting the
A RECORD BREAKER.
AT
en board.
(2) That the Commissioner of mit being obtained. The licence. Customs be requested to expired two months ago, and no address a letter to all ship- attempt was made to renew it. ping companies, calling their On December 26, the accused's attention to the necessity of allowing him to board the s
luggage was searched before searches for contraband,
(5)
t
(6)
whole theme of church-going when Lovers of the sliver screen in he asserts that the layman goes. Hongkong owe the management to church to get a positive lead of the Coronet a distinct debt of from a guide who knows God and gratitude for extending the season who has been instructed in His of The Covered Wagon" to-day Hongkong still wavering over word. And, who can deny the and to-morrow Not always does the question whether it should truth of the position in the a boomed picture justify every participate in the British Empire Primitive Church when men went expectation, but this cannot be
to worship on the Lord's Day not said of a film that has been de Exhibition again this year, the because it was the respectable acribed by the usually calm that Malaya intends to thing to do, but and this is tional success and that has created "London Daily Press as a sensa reopen its pavilion has distinct italicised because they wanted
to. local interest, for just possibly attend church exists or until which it has been shown.
Unless the inclination to a furore in every other country in Hongkong may be influenced by such in erested in the hearts of The film is a record of the hard- the example of the slater colony. men, the cry of shrinking con-Anglo-Saxon ploneers who led the ships and trials endured by hardy Introducing the Budget last Octo-gregations and empty churches way in caravans of covered wag- ber, His Excellency the Governor, must be expected. Surely it is the ons across the plains and deserts (7) noting the fact that no vote had stalwarts of the church to main-to the Pacife coasts in the fortles chief end of the clergy and of the of the great American continent been included for the Exhibition, tain or create that inclination in at last century long before steam observed that the question of the individual, whether in Hong-vanquished distance and made it Hongkong participating again was kong, Hallifax, or Hull. one upon which two views were
possible to traverso in thres and a half days territory that then occupied more than nine months possible, and he did not wish to Jellicoe and Jutland.
The sum up, The Covered commit the Government to any
The conferring on Admiral Wagon" is the most colossal fim opinion until the Legislative Jellicoe of an earldom may be nothing like it.will ever be done over undertaken, and possibly Council had had full opportunity taken as an entire vindication, so again hence the wisdom of visit- of 'considering the matter. This far as official circles are concerned, ing the Coronet either to-day or statement was made before the of his manipulation of the feet at to-morrow.
the Battle of Jutland over which
al
being conducted by the ship's "Lungehan" for Canton, and the officers during the course of ammunition was found fn a a voyage. If later, a seizure trunk.
of arms and ammunition is The accused said that he left made, a report would be Hongkong for good toward the called for from the Captain end of 1923, and was now living of the ship as to whether the at Shu Shan village. On search had been carried out. December 18 he visited Hongkong That the Commissioner of to see his friends and at the Customs should address a same time removed some clothing letter to the shipping com- which he had left behind in a panies emphasizing the im trunk. The 15 rounds of am- portance of strict compliance munition found in the trunk by them with the conditiona when he was arrested a week governing their annual later on the way back formed guarantee.
part of the 50 rounds obtained
1
That Consular Courts of under the permit. The ammuni- Inquiry be instituted on tion was put into the trunk whilst
board ship in all cases where he was still in Hongkong, and he smuggled goods are found on forgot all about it.. board by the Customs
Asked what became of the re- searchers. It is agreed that volver, accused stated that he such Courts should act as had it in the village but that he expeditiously as possible, could not bring it here as the Canton authorities would not That representations should allow him to do so,
PENALTIES. AND POLICE.
be made to the various Con-
The Magistrate imposed a fine
suls for the infliction of the of $50, and ordered the ammuni maximum penalty for the tlon to be confiscated:
offence of arms smuggling and, where it is obvious that the maximuni penalty is clearly insufficient to act as £ deterrent against this offence, that the various Consuls who have as yet taken no 'steps towards such penalties being increased, be approached with the view of
TIMID CYCLIST.
៦
RIDES AWAY AFTER
ACCIDENT."
Before Mr. J. R. Wood at the
the necessary powers being Central Magistracy this mornings
obtained.
That a special branch of the Chung Yee-fun, a student at St. Municipal Police be in Stephen's College, living at No. stituted to function on the 14, Bonham Road, was charged private docks, wharves and with falling to stop after an jetties, between the Astor accident in which his motor cycle) House and Yangtszepoo, for knocked down a Chinese girl.
Sub-Inspector the purpose of preventing the
Alexander in landing,
concealment and charging the man said that the girl was still in hospital suffering distribution of arms and am from injuries which were stated munition, and that the
owners of such private, pro- to be serious. The defendant perties, be addressed in order made no attempt to stop after the to obtain the necessary per-
accident and was traced by the
mission for the special police later. branch of the police, which The defendant stated that would be detailed solely for immediately after the accident a this purpose, to function on crowd had collected near the spot. their properties,
A threatening attitude was, That an appeal be made to adopted towards him, and he the Chinese Chambers of drove away, being too frightened Commerce, and the various to even go to the Police Station. institutions founded by the He did make a report the next merchant classes for their morning, and he was found by co-operation in dealing with the police the same evening. the general question of arms The defendant was fined $50. smuggling.
E. F. MACKAY,
(Chairman)
J. COCHET, E. S. CUNNINGHAM, P. CREPIN,
J. HAROLD DOLLAR, M. ICHIKI, L.A. LYALL H. M. TIBBEY.
'December 12, 1924.
Shanghai. January-Thé "Evening News" states that about 80 Chinese, presumably soldiers, part of whom were disguised as civilians on New Year's Eve, Home authorities had come to acute controversy has raged. The
boarded two China Merchant's Three Chinese, whose appear. their decision to reopen the vital decision on which the ance-dld-not-appear to be sati
steamers, the “Klangyung” and Exhibition again this year, and fortunes of the battle turned was factory, were stopped by some
the "Klangta," which were moored" off the French Bund, and forced. was all that could be expected Grand Fleet to depipy, to port and Friday night. Two of the imen that by which Tellico ordered the detectives on duly at. Mongkok on
.......... the passengers and crew into the while any doubt remained. How-thus away from the enemy, his Zot away after a struggle, but the
cabins and removed from the hold
· LINGERING COUGHS, that it has been known resson: for this being the grave third was abol in the leg as he Bronchitis leaves a bad cough.
247 cause of rifles, and other whe definitely for some little time that risk to which the feet would have was running away. A revolver do infimenss and la grippe, but these made good their escape. The arms So materiala valued at $500,000," and the Exhibition is to be continued ich respect he believed that the thrown by the man in his the heating and earstive qualities of from Hankow to the local repro been exposed from torpedoes, in fonded in three lichambers was hard, lingering coughs yield easily to are reported to have been consigoed the Hongkong Government cannot German Olps enjoyed marked fight. The wounded man is now Chamberlain's Court Hemady Good sentative of the Tulf of Cheklang delay much longer reaching Za superiority. Alth the deck in hospital.
for troublesome night coughs too For I vuale everywherecent
over now
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