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Peculiar circumstances attending the first arms seizure of the year, affected this morning, give the impression that an attempt to secrete weapons on board a local ship with possibly piratical inten- tions has been nipped in the bud,,

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HONGKONG'S NEXT GOVERNOR.

HOME GOSSIP..

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Hongkong has strong grounds for believing that His Excellency the Governor, Sir Edward Stubbs, will be invited to remain' here at the conclusion of his term of office but newspaper reports at Home 8.refer to possible changes.

Melbourne, January England were all out in the From what was actually seen, desire among local bad characters. it appears that those who are to bring off a coup-even at second innings for 290. alleged to have been involved, took greater risk than in ordinary

H. Sutcliffe was out for 127. . exrome measures in trying to get times before China New Year, so Australia, therefore, won by rid of the firearms once they knewas to be flush for the occasion. the game was up,

Finally there is the proximity Early this morning,. Revenue of the spot where the bag was

[Details of the play in the Officers from the Imports and retreived, to a number of wharves ing of stumps yesterday, will be Second Test Match, up to draw. Exports Department were pro-where river steamers berth. cecding along that part of the Accordingly revelations of found on page 11.1 Praya near the Steamboat Co.'s sensational nature should not Macao wharf at Wing Lok Street. cauke any great surprise" when On their approach, so it, is the arrested persons are,brought alleged, a bag was thrown over before the Magistrate. from a small sampan, The Revenue Officers thereupon took into custody those on board-- three, personsand at once com-. menced dredging operations.

Their efforts were rewarded when a bag was brought up. Eight Mauser pistols with eight butts and about 500 rounds of ammunition, in clipa, comprised the contents of the "haul."""

"Trade custom" in Hongkong and South China for illicit arms deals is for each weapon to be accompanied by 100 rounds of ammunition. Experience from seizures in the past of arms believed to be in transit as part of the trade has borne this out.

That the ammunition was in clips and that there were less than the usual 100 per pistol" number! of rounds, naturally lead to a suspicion that the rounds were for immediate use rather than for dis- posal by sale.

Then there is the well-known

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SUN

'EMPRESS OF RUSSIA"

SEARCH,

FO BACK?

STYLES IN SURNAMES.

No nassenger by the name of Sun Fo was on the list of the Empress of Russia" when she arrived here this morning.

Peculiarity in the. English spell. ing of Chinese names and Man- darin pronunciations nearly led a China Mail" reporter to jump to the conclusion that a Chinese saloon passenger whose surname · was spelt "Son" was the son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

...

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}} A “China Mail" reporter whoThe Daily Graphic" under- made enquiries in official quarters that when Sir John Bred- after the announcement was bury the British representative made by the unofficial members on the Reparations Commission, of the Legislative Council that retires from that post in a few they had requested the Colonial months, he will be offered a

ment was likely to be made before vacancies about that time," states Office to re-appoint Sir Edward Colonial Governorship. was informed that no announce will be two or three such

June or July of this year and it the report, "but the one for which would not be without precedent if Sir John is thought to be most (in the event of another Governor suitable is the Governorship of being appointed) a temporary Hongkong. Sir Reginald Stubbs, successor was at first appointed the present Governor, is retiring on the expiration of the five years' period of service for which⚫ he was appointed."

WORLD'S RECORDS BROKEN.

Circling the new Culver City speedway, Toramy Milton, driving a car with a one hundred and twenty-two cubic inch motor, was officially timed as he negotiated ten laps i the mile and a quarter track at the rate of one hund and thirty and one-tenth miles an hour, breaking all world's speed record on a board, rack.

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GERMAN PROTEST.

SEEKS DETAILS OF ALLIED COMPLAINTS.

COLOGNE, QUESTION.

(Reuter's Service.)

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THE BIG COUP AT LOCK HING'S CURIO SHOP.

IMPORTANT CLUES.

GANG STILL IN THE COLONY,

EMDEN.”

FAMOUS CRUISER

REPLACED.

LAUNCHING CEREMONY,

(Reuter's Service.)

What actually occurs when a Colonial Governdrship becomes vacant is that the Colonial Office, in touch with the doings of all the smaller colonial governors, is in a position to recommend one or more for appointment "to the Secretary of State for Colonies. When the decision made the chosen one is communicated with and in the event of his accept- ance the consent of His Majesty has, of course, to be obtained.

Simultaneous announcement is then made to the colony con- cerned and to the Press and as the elaborate machinery which the Press has evolved,

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Sir John BWLWIEK BERIUTYSER G.C.B., K.C.B., C.B., who as prin- cipal British representative' on- the Reparations Commission has handled delicate negotiations, was raised to a barony in the New Year's Honours' List. He is an Insurance Commissioner and was a member of the National Health Insurance Joint Committee. Throughout the war period he wás Joint' Permanent Secretary to H.M. Treasury,

Hongkong's present Governor, Berlin, January 7. Sir Edward Stubbs, K.C.M.G., A "German Note to the Allies Owing to the faintness of the

cruiser has held the past, since 1919. German new protests against the decision not finger-prints on the walls and "Emden," of 6,000 tons, with a

Appointed second class clerk, to evacuate Cologne, and demands furniture of Messr, Lock Hing's speed of 29 knots, and carrying first class clerk in 1910. He was Colonial Office, in 1900, he became at the earliest a communication

establishment, the Criminal In- eight 15-centimetre, guns, has giving details of the Allied com- plaints. It says that the Allies telligence Department has not been launched at Wilhelmshaven. sent on a special mission to the The new cruiser has been Malay Peninsula and Hongkong could claim the right to postpone been able to connect the gang named in memory of the famous the same year. He was a mem the other, the vowel sounds some evacuation only if Germany were which carried out the burglary cruiser sunk by H.M.S. "Sydney."ber of the West African Lands what like, the "u" in municipal guilty of shortcomings, the im-there on Tuesday eight with the The original "Emden" was a Committee in 1912. He was ap Dr. Sun's and, of course, Mr. Sun's portance of which corresponded culprits who perpetrated the light cruiser and famous com- pointed Colonial Secretary of .This post he surnames, belong to the second with the hardship of an extension wholesale ransacking of Messra, merce raider belonging to Ad- Ceylon in 19

of the occupation.'

There are two Chinese sur. Dames which, according to the Cantonese pronunciation, apelt "Sun." In Contonese, one is pronounced like "son" and in

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The name which gave the The Note insists that Germany Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Co.'s miral von Spee's Pacific squadron. held until he came to Hongkong

Early in the war she was de in 1919. impression that Mr. Sun Fo was has been disarmed so completely shop of two big floors during the tached to. prey on British com- Ceylon Government on using his "self-adopted". name that she can no longer be a mili-week-end.

merce in the East.. Having occasions. WEB Sun Fong-hin," this being tary factor in European affairs,

However, by studying the clues eluded the Japanese warships the name of one of the Colony's and concludes:The differences obtained, the police detectives lying in wait for her by rigging leading sugar merchants who often of opinion arising over the

up a fourth funnel and, displaying visits Shanghai on business. Evacuation Treaty, which result have been able to arrive at certhe British flag, she appeared in

Another factor which prompted in one-sided dictation, cannot be tain conclusions concerning one the Bay of Bengal early in GREAT BRITAIN'S SPECIAL further inquiry was the presence interpreted as lack of goodwill on of the gang, who was probably the September, 1914, and within a of a name S. Y. Wu" on the pasthe part of Germany, whereas, if first to get through the window senger list. The Chinese surname which according to the Cantonese the Allies continued to be guided pronunciation is written. "Ng is by the spirit of the London Con- at Lock Hing's. So as not to ham. spelt "W" according to Man- ference, a settlement would be per the officers in their inquiries, darin. It is known that there is a speedily reached.

secretary, formerly at Canton and who once lived in Victoria, B.C.,

by name of Ng Sheang-ying and

whose name could be rendered as

ARMAMENT.5.

SY. Wu." Further, Mr. Ng AN AIR RACE DEVELOPED, Sheung-ying has been reported to have been travelling with Mr. Sun Fo.

Inquiries were made in the best

AMERICA'S POSITION,

(Router's American Service.)

details cannot be given.b

As the burglars knew that the coup would be discovered early yesterday morning/when the shop opened for business, and that cheques could not be cashed till 10 am., they did not present the cheques and compradors order for comparatively small amounts, for payment at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

DELEGATE.

(Router's Service.)

LONDON, Jauuary 7.

week had captured seven large communication between. India merchantmen and cut off all sea and Burma. Afterward her operations were extended to the Indian Ocean with equal success. It is officially announced that The device of a dummy funnel the Marquis of Salisbury has been was again resorted to, to enable appolated special delegate of the Oplum her to enter the harbour of Pen- Great Britain to eng, where she torpedoed and Conference at Geneva on Januzay sank the Russian cruiser Temt 12 Sir Malcolm Delevingne, thug," also inking the French Under Secretary of State, Home work destroyer "Mousquetaire" outside Office, whose admirable the harbour. On November 9 she preceding the conference as the was caught and driven ashore on principal British delegate has been the Cocoa Islands by the Austra-Geneva as the British delegate.

fully recognised, will again go to lian cruiser "H.M.S. "Sydney."

MARIANNA LATHR During her brief career of two months the "Emden" captured 17 attend the Geneva conference.as The Marquis of Salisbury will not British merchant vessels, valued he fall while hunting in Hert in the aggregate at $2,211,000, fordshire to-day. Indian tea by 2d. a lb, paralysing tigating the aircraft industry It is deduced that the gang has the jute trade, and largely increas- He held that office uil despatched that, although the Army Bill re not left the Colony. In the ing the cost of rubber and tin.] by his father, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, to discuss matters with Marshal commended the record sum of Interval the polles. Chang Fro-ling the Maken-marshal: $16,000,000, it ala insufficient to is tightening cats and pant with. Some-time-BRO-ft-reported maintain an adequate air force reasonable good luck, the culprits.

The Gymkhana Club hald that Mr. Sun Fo had been Instruct Mr. Weeks is opposed to the might be brought to book.

their half-yearly resting last week 1 ́ad to return to Canton,.

unification of the Army and Navy in this morging's police report, | when a profit was reported of air, services. He recommended the valge of jewellery, goods, etc, nearly $5,600 up to the close of the the building-up of commercial and money stolen, is given at season in September, The DEW grandstand cost up to that dite aviation, even to the point of a $8,531 75

report of the daring robe $2,000, and since completion the subsidy, as the best means of de-

yesterday's tɔtal has worked out, at less than veloping an adequate reserve force

$60,000

| informed circles but the report that Mr. Sun Fo had arrived in Hong- kong back from the North `could

New York, January 6. not be confirmed. Some state that Admitting that the armament Nothing has come to light re- they have been informed that Mr. race has developed into an air garding the fate of the bundles of Sun Fo is definitely travelling to armament race, Mr. John W. de deeds for padi-folds and Canton by one of the boats leaving Weeks, Secretary for War, has in-promissory notes made out to the

Mr. Sun Fo, as many will know, formed the House of Representa-firm, which are valued at over incidentally raising the price of was the first Mayor of Canton, tives Committee which is inves- $50,000

to-morrow night.

Calcutta, January 7-The Bengal legislative council has rejected the bul providing for an appeal to the High Court from the tribunal of three judges-Reuter

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THEIR GUN ELEVATION..

(Reuter's Sernite.)

VASHINGTON, "January

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