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PIRATES' HAUNT.

RUMOUR OF A PROPOSED DEMONSTRATION.

MOVE ON

INDIAN CONSTABLE PRESSMAN.

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"IN SEARCH OF "COFY:"

Actuated by the belief that at heart the educated Chinese, seek in a paper reflection of "their own tolerance, moderation and common senge," Bo Shanghai publishing

BOMBARDMENT POSSIBLE. company has embarked upon a journalistic undertaking of con-

Butour has it that the Naval siderable interest. Its make up and Hongkong unthorties Fave dow aimilar to the weekly, fortnightly patched an expedition, to set in articles one by the "China Press

Bearing in mind two recent and monthly reviews of events for unison with the local Chinese (Shanghai) on bullion transit in which there is such a large market military, in a demonstration against Shanghai streets and another In in Britain. It is to be published that part of Bins Bay where the this paper on conditions in Hong- monthly in English and is pirates of the Hongwha landed. called The Far Eastern Speeth- Tast week, the Hongwa was told to move on this morning

kong-a China Mail" reporter. tor." From the editorial appear came in from Singapore, having for trying to track down two ing in the first issue it is gathered been pirated en rinter and taken in bags of what appeared to be that the paper will be conducted Bins Bay, where the pirates left treasure. essentially in Chinese intorests, the ship. About $10,000, in lont although it is the expressed inter-was taken in addition to the ship'kong that, to use the words of the

tion "to support no party, person, jarmony. -

It is not every bank in Hong-

or interest for any other reason It has, boon reported that a fleet Shanghal paper, "hands two boxes than that we believe them to be of Naval armed lunches, sccom. of silver to a coolle at the rear door right. These would not appear panied by one of the larger Police and then proceeds to forget about to be idle words, either, for what launches, proceeded, under orders, them." An escort-whether armed straighter talking could there be on Saturday, to Bias Ray. About or not, it was not possible to than the following to those a hundred men, under the command ascertain certainly accompanied responsible for the chaotic condi- of General Hung Shiu-ion, in ally two mesh bags of valuable proper- tion of affairs existing in China of Chan Kwing-ming, and who has to the P&O Bank this morn- idealism and hope we find ourjin anti-piracy measures before, were the reporter saw four/bkis carrying - to-day "After wild flights. of assisted the Hongkong Government ing

Standing outside Jardine's office, to have copperated with the armed boats.

selves almost where we started.

between them two bags, the con- Those of us who looked for some

No information was available, attents of which, as seen through the leadership which would give Police Headquarters when a "China meshes, looked like small sealed... security to the homes of millions Mail: reporter called this morning. boxes of gold coins. A European of common men and women and The mmour goes so far na to and a Chinese walked close to the

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save the younger generation of that the Bay may be bombarded if cooles youth have been mocked by deemed necessary.

Very likely it was while he militarism, triumphant and scorn- When the gang of about 34 was following in the wake of ful, whose creed would appear to pirates revealed their intentions the treasure, and peering under the European's jacket to sco if be that there is only one God and on the "Hongwha," they are he is on the side of the big armies alleged to have boasted of having reporter attracted the attention of a weapon were carried, that the and the mighty tuchuns." Up- participated in the attacks on the an Indian policeman. "At any holding the cause of those in the "Sui An and the "Hydrangea." rate, after the treasure had turned Straits Settlements who have It is interesting to note that both into the lane between the Fost organised a campaign against the these ships were taken to the Office and the new P. & O. build- restriction of Civil Service posts neighbourhood of Bias Bay, which ing, the officer came up to the to British subjects of European is quite close to Hongkong, on the reporter and told him to move birth, another editorial note paysite between this Colony and on” ntribute to British fairness by Swatow.] appealing to the organisers to "go slowly and fair play-the hall. mark of British administration throughout her long career as a colonising Power-will be forth- coming." On the prospects of the Rolution of China's problems there is much of interest within the pages of this first number of "The Far Eastern Spectator." Theresia

MOTOR FATALITY.

VERDICT IN SESSIONS.. TRIAL TO-DAY.

PRISONERS SENTENCED.

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CHINA PRESS" SUED.

$50,000 CLAIM FOR ALLEGED LIBEL.

A claim for $50,000 damaged

arson."

expressed agreement with Mr. "I think that the jury have has been filed against the "China Perceval Lancion, whose recent rightly found you guilty of this Press" in the US. Court by the China's measures must be so com- Telegraph" attracted a great deal Sir Henry Cowper Gollan, this of an areen case which was tried

articles in the London "Daily offence," said the Chief Justice; law firm of Faison and Heath.

The matter concerns the report The China Mail"plete that they will prevent the of attention, that disintegration is morning, to the two light in in the Mixed Court, on the 7th

smuggling of opium into Hong- the root of China's trouble, but charged with manslaughter in

disagreement in the analysis of its connection with the accident on instant, and plaintiff, Mr. A. kong, and it shall rest with a com causes as given by him and criti- the Kowloon City Road in NovemRoss; alleges that the report stig- mission appointed by the League cism of the articles by Mr. Yu er, in which an old man lost his of the band of incendiaries who matizes him "as being a member to say when that pitch of efficiency Loo-tang is published. No ran- life and several passengers were conspired to and did commit has been reached. Nothing could cour or racial feeling is allowed a injured. (The prisoners, the be fairer than this. Undoubtedly in this or the numerous other be struggling for possession of curred in North Soochow Road in place in the argumerits contained driver and inspector, were said to

The fire was that which oc- Britain's offer throws the onus on articles, and a good start would the wheel at the time of the March, 1921, when some 3,000 China, but without China's lead, appear to have been made with a accident). oplum-smoking can never be sup- magazine which gives promise of In his summing up His Lord pressed in Britain's Far Eastern bearing out the claim put forward ship emphasised that drivers had possessions. Take Hongkong as on its behalf that it is to contain a duty to pedestrians and passen- nothing but a fearless presenta- gere as well as to their employers the best example. Here the tion of what the editors are con- and should handle their machines

accordingly. Government, is striving, despite vinced are facts. the heavy revenue loss entailed, to eliminate smoking by rigidly enforcing the monopoly which Aviation and Empire. enables it to reduce the drug's A few days ago Reuter informed potency and make the price ever us that it had not been definitely more exacting. Public smoking decided to construct, an aviation base at Singapore, but that the resorts (opium divans) have been question was being disc..ssed in dangerous part of the road to built by the Taikoo Dock Co. for

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When the jury announced their verdict His Lordship, addressing the prisoners, said he could not understand how people who understood anything about driv ing could be guilty of such foolish They ap- peared to have chosen the most

carry out a most dangerous

and reckless conduct.

bales of silk valued at over Tis. 6,000,000 were destroyed

ANHUI OUT.

UNOFFICIAL TRIALS TO

DAY.

This morning, the unofficial trials of the steamer AnhuiTM* were held:

The" Anhui" has just been

abolished since 1910, the traffic connection with the consideration operation, and he would sentence the China Navigation Co. has been a State monopoly since of the whole problem of defence them to 18 months' imprisonment speed trials will be announced in It is expected that the public 1914; the consumption has fallen With a naval base and an aviation with hard labour.

base both at Singapore, one can [The only evidence to be heard

due course.

was reduced to such small dimen-

WIRELESS!

AN EXPERIMENT ON THE "LUNGSHAN."

morning it was reported that the

In local shipping circles this...

management of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., were fitting their fleet of river boats with wireless and that work would be put in hand next week........

in the last ten years from 900 envisage the mighty assistance this morning was that of the in- Ebrahim el Arculli and Family cheats to 240 per annum; and that would and could be rendered spector who said that he did not tender, their heartfelt thanks for

now carefully to the whole naval and military take the wheel out of the grasp the kind expressions of sympathy purchasers are they have received on the occasion rationed. But despite all this It is gratifying that in future see if there were any grounds for forces throughout the Far East. of the driver. He was looking on to of their recent sad bereavement, Hongkong's efforts to suppress schemes of Imperial defence avia-the complaint of the driver that the and also for the floral tributes:

the drug still further are largely tion is to come into its own, that steering gear was loose, the car is, if the aerial experts in had then swerved, and he fell with defeated because China still

authority in Great Britain at pre-his hand on the wheel; that was cultivates the poppy and. smug- sent have their own way.

It is why ARCULLI-On January 19, at gling cannot be prevented beyond only a matter of two short years thought he and the driver both some of the witnesses 20, Leighton Hill Road, Hong- kong, Ommatta, beloved wife a certain point. In the words of or so that the British Air Force had hold of the wheel.] of Ebrahim el Arculli, aged the special committee appointed sions as absolutely to be impotent 24. Shanghai papers please by H.E. the Governor to in the event of a war or even an consider the Colony's position international crisis. Happily, Hongkong, Treaday, January 29, 1925, incurred under the International vored and that ever again win CURIOUS CASE AT CANTON was gathered that the s.a. "Lung-

with regard to the obligations wiser counsels have since pre- vailed, there is good reason Opium Convention, "while China the flying wing of Britain's forces continues to provide its population either at Home or abroad be Canton of an attempt by a party fitted was to have wireless put News has come through from ahan"-the latest addition to the fleet and the most luxuriously with opium in limitless quantity, regarded as of no importance to of men, alleged to be detectives, Hongkong, in" attempting to pre- a whole. The scattered nature of on a charge of uttering, in Hong- Britain itself or to the Empire as to arrest a leading Chinese actor.

in as an experiment. vent consumption by Opium bas figured in the cables Chinese who happen to be within provement of our Imperial com- words against Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

those the Empire calls for a vast im-kong, while on the stage, certain its borders, is merely beating the munications, both militarily and

AL It is not known if the charge air." Accordingly it will be seen can be done to further this desir majeste, the colloquial being to DEFINITE DECISION MADE commercially, and anything that amounts to one of libel or lese that until China takes the initia-able end ought to be welcomed the effect that the actor had "run in our cables, not as the subject of tive Britain cannot possibly do and encouraged both by the public the doctor down."

BRITAIN'S STRIKING

OFFER.

so often lately that the public

must be weary of the word. To-day, however, opium appears

or

ACTOR CHARGED.

On enquiry from the office it

SAVE THE` MIKASA.”

interminable recriminations

IN TOKIO In this connection it should be futile suggestions, but as the sub-more than she is doing at present. and the Press,, Aviation is one

The offer which Lord Robert Cecil of Empire can be drawn closer ing of a Chinese' play is extem- ject of a striking offer that cannot

of the methods by which the links explained that most of the word- (Courtesy of Daily Bulletin). has made at Geneva in the than ever before. fail to rouse the public to fresh

It would bo poraneous but the authorities Empire's name is more than a gos-nothing short of criminal to do never permit anything in the

Tokio, January 16, interest. Just when it seemed

anything that would even in-shape of political propaganda. that the Geneva Conference must ture; it la a formula for the com- directly retard its progress.

Having received consent from The actor in question is the all the signatories to the Naval end in the usual deadlock with plete suppression of opium-smok-

second female impersonator in the Treaty, as well as that of the navy nothing more to its credit than a.

ing in Hongkong and our other Far

Yan Sau Nín troupe, which is one with Admiral Togo as Hon. Pre Winnipeg has drafted a dancing of the most popular showing to sident, this afternoon, decided to the "Save the Mikasa Scelety few pious hopes, Britain has pro-

Eastern possessions. If China code. It has been approved by vided a formula that can, if loyally declines to accept that formula the civic authorities and forwarded Hongkong audiences. His stage preserve "the historic battleship, carried out, settle the great opium she not only makes the labours of to dance hall proprietors: Here it name la Fung King-man. It is which was to be scrapped under is. Exaggerated movements of needless to state that all female the terms of the Naval Treaty, as-i problem once and for all. Briefly the Geneva conference utterly the body while dancing are strictly parts on the Chinese stage proper national memorial. the plan is this. Within fifteen abortive, but she also prolongs the forbidden. Couples using The report goes that the troupe renders It Impossible to move her

are undertaken by men, o B. Thangarasant÷stala=-of years of the date when China's opium evil indefinitely, for it is short steps, but must encircle the was performing in the Honain from Yokosuka, where the mem efforts to suppress the cultivation upon her own efforts that the ball. The man's right arm must Theatre in Canton, but that the orial is to be established? My of the poppy have become really suppression of opium-smoking not encircle his partner's body star heard of the contemplated The pavy has contributed the effective, Britain will see to it that, within her own territory, not let Hils right hand should be placed raid and fled. By a strange coin cost of scrapping the vessel ja oplum-smoking entirely coases in than that of Britain's Fan Eastern is arm must not encircle the aid of funds to support a gendar- which a national appeal is being, at the middle of her waist. The eldence the troupe was showing in wards the preservation fund, for Eastern possessions, Dossessions, finally depends.

morie contingent in Canton, Imade.

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