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No. 19,458

三斥 統一月四年五十二百九千一英

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL,

China Mail S

THE DOLLAR,

To-day's closing rate 2/3 3'16

p-day's, opening rate 2/3 3/16

日九月三丑乙次十四十國民竿中

"THE

COURT

BOYS FOR SALE.

CANTON ITE

TOOK $23,000.

HITEAWAY

5

HAWKED IN STREETS OF HONGKONG.

NEEDY PARENTS."

CHAN KWING-MIN-

DEFEATE

HONGKON DIRECTOR'S

FALL.

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IN

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LINSES

OM ALL

HOIGKONG DALERS.

Tales of Woe For, the Ears of the Rich.

Herrstill had tertrude je human beings, needy "parents"

From time to time young

Whether boys' have beetruecoy-" Chinese boys have been taken red or not, there is no denying that they find a ready market in Hong. With the passing of the Fong, Mui Tsai law. Chinese families are chary of buying girls. But there many Chinese who firmly are believe that it is their duty to have successors to continue the worshipping of ancestral tombs

ach year,

round the streets and offered for #mo Two such instances were. noticed by *" China

Mail eporter this week. In each cas the vendor, with his clothing in rags, claimed to be the father. Nobody seemed to doubt the sellers' bona fides and they were allowed to pass.on unquestionei fe the reporter followed! one of the couples along several strotz No sale was part through, wever, and the boy was taken

Jane.

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Cant General Hsu inflicted a sèries of

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Trade between SPB

-End in-

ASH SPECULATING,

Chief, Justice Takes Merciful View.

Dabbling in the local share market was said to have been the uddoing of a young Chinese, Jung Tan Lloyd, who appeared at an adjourned sitting of the Criminal Sessions this morning. to answer charges of forgery and embezzlement.

to re-take SwBW%

The sums involved in the outlined by the acting Attorney terior parts is now rang and charges totalled $22.995 and were General, Sir Henry Pollock, "K.C., the Canton forces. are firmly admitted to have been taken from who said that receipts purporting entrenched in surrounding terri

Tid. of Ho Receipts Shanghai Bank had been forged tory. It is stated that seral the funds of Lloyd & Co., to be those of the Hongkong and Hsu proposes, to leave a online confirming ters of credit by the prisoner on dates in be ate in charge and to return to against docunts London and tween October 6, 1923, and concerning parredits and November 6, 1924. The chop of securities were ged to cover the Bank on the receipts, was g the defalcations

Canton.

The "warship” ·capt Chan cruisers is not When Mui Tsais were bought. Fung. It is the Wing F and, sold, a girl of from eight to is really a transport, fourteen would fetch about $10 from the old Hongkong

KADINY firm and then the director

in was due to circumstances when it became a limited lability not uncommon out here. With a company. He was re ented by desire to make more money than Mr. F. C. Jenkin thin ing and he got from the business, he guilty speculated on the local share market which went against him,

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or

counsel entered a on his behalf.

15 per year (of her age) bikaine Hok Cafton, was wight looking boy, nowadays, efzed by the Wing

alleged smuggling of aims Decasionally cases of kidnap¦particularly one whose sure

the same as that of, hiest par even in the interior, are brought to the notice of the police, father, would fetch about $30

From the resulting Police

Court prosentions, it seems as if i the usual modis operandi is for a ¦ young ingeful to be enticed away from his parents by giving him. sonte food or taking him for a ten- house treat. In both the attempt- eri salus referred to above the here i appeared to follow their owne?! meekly and neither of them dis puted the long tales of wod told j by alpar respoctive "parents."

Tha. he had het.

Caren fol abje 1 plaverty, threzit # asion fire,werping through hist inative village last Year! cestnoplay all he had was tite

- advanced by the first, go!

Tablebaded me of th

wh ske Punti di det ipad, such a whh tongue and wis! made whose the stupage that soare |

Federer..

Ling [one" Lude who was goproached :

about it. If the man was realy his Patron, Newling to prompt- jing, the young hopeful kerge to

Mary....... The lady then gave him. tity went and tuld the pun to So are preeure a gond meal,

It was the sime in the other Here the man's excuse for disposing of the boy was that he hd se uut from an up-country village in Kwangsi to trade in Wuchow but had been waylaid by bandits who had stripped him of all he possessed. As he had a large family to support and rouki

ot perforin manual labour, he must needs, he said, sell his son to obtain further capital with which to keep the others together. While the father knocked at doors to tell people about his mis- fortune, the boy wept copiously. As usual, the kind ones gave a little silver and the couple went Toway,

FALL INTO HOLD

DUTCH LINE SKIPPER'S DEATH.

LIKEABLE PERSONALITY PASSES.

་

A cable has been received by the Java-China-Japan Lijn from Soerabala, announcing that Cap- tain J. P. Scholten of the s.s. Tjisondari fell into the No. 1 hold

sustained.

silver coins.

(The Hok Canton used

The facts of

ONE OF THE STRANGEST RACES IN THE WORD

TUNNEL

ca were and in order to meet his liabilities he committed his offence in the hope that the market would turn in his favour.

One of the strangest races on record is being ran by workers blasting through the grante caverns of the high Sierras, at Huntington Lake, California. Two crews of five hundred men each are working with air drills in mud-filled working posts, with ice cold water dripping upon them, striving to cut down The tunnel, half a me under the High The few remaining feet of stone and earth between them. Sierray, and 7,000 feet above the sea, when completed, will form the y unit to the Southern Califortie Edison Company's power project. tapping the waters of the San Josquin River.

WORLD TOURISTS.

FRANCONIA PASSENGERS

IMPRESSED.

LOST WATCH INCIDENT.

The Franconia round-the- world tourists experienced dis- appointing weather on the first day of their stay yesterday, the drizzle which welcomed them on arrival continuing practically throughout the day.

The party which left for Can- ton in the morning returned last night. In spite of the bad wea- ther, the majority of those left behind did a little sight-seeing, and incidentally made some purchases..

regularly at Hongkong until it SAID IT WAS SINFUL

fell into the hands of the Canton naval forces. Built in 1875 by

J. Elder & Co. of Glasgow, the EVIDENCE IN INDIAN CASE, vessel was formerly named the Egeron. Its net tonnage is 856.] General Chan Kwing-ming still has a

very small army some where in the next province.”

KOWLOON WEDDING.

Mr. Jenkin described the action of the defendant's co-partners in handing him over to the police when they found out the defalca- tions as precipitate, and said that they had very rapidly regretted the course they took. The mem -bers of the firm were all either bloodelatives or lied by the

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|up in Chinese village life.

The people who were injured by the course the man took were anxious that the prosecution should stop, and they had applie for it to be at the Magistract the matter had been ta their hands and am prosecuti were so

the sn

some restitution had been ma

Addressing defondant, Sit Henry Cowper Gollum, Chief Jus

said that his counsel - had made powerful appeal on his behalf for mercy of the Court. Defendant had as well as he could -in-pleading guy and in At yesterday's proceedings at trying to make some amatas is the Kowloon Magistracy in the offence had been a very deliberate case in which Hakin Karem Bus one and he had carried it over a stands charged with possession of poisons and illegally practi considerable period of time. It was sing medicine, it was divvery sad to find in such a post- closed in evidence what. tion a man who had led a respect- alleged to be a conspiracy at

L

DRINI

able-life previously. Those whICECREAME

MORINAGAS

There was a very happy gather- the house of Abbas Khan in were most directly interested had ing at the home of the bride after Austin Road when certain witnesses appealed to him for a light sen-1 the wedding at Andrew's for the prosecution were offeredtence to be inflated but as Chief Chuch, Kowloon, yesterday of packets of medicine which they Justice he had to look at the case Miss Marjorie Thorpe Joy and Mr. to report to the police had not merely from the point of view. Albert Edward Farrell, parti come from the defendant of defendant's partners but also In answer to questions the defrom that of the public. People who culare of which appeared in fendant said that he intended to committed serious offences like yesterday's "China Mail."

register himself as a doctor, but he this must not be allowed to think The following weit present: dismissed the idea on learplug that they could do so with ẩm- The Rev. G. R. and Mrs. Lindsay, that his certificates were no good. punity, but he was glad to be able Apart from other good impres- Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Tofte, Mr. He was told that there had been a to take a merciful view of the case sions which the tourists may D. Humphreys, Mr. H. Hum-meeting in Abbas Khan's house in all its circumstances, and the have gained so soon after their

An Indian watchigan giving sentence of the Court would be Asiatic Budd arrival, an incident occurred phreys, Mr. D. E. Chrk, Mr. and Festerday which has earned for Mrs. J. J. Robson, Mr. and Mrs. evidence described the meeting at imprisonment with hard: Jabour the shopkeepers of Hongkong a D. A. Purves, Mrs. Harvey, Mr. the house of Abbas Khan when for nine months.

On a and Mrs. W. Edwards, Mr. and the latter offered those present of his steamer at that port and reputation for honesty, has since succumbed to injuries visit to the Swatow Lace Com-Airs. James Jack, Mr., Mrs. and Dackets of medicine which they

pany's establishment. at

BAGS OF FLOUR 21, Miss Hansom, Mrs. G. Young, were to give to the police Captain Scholten was one of Queen's Road Central, Mrs. F. B. Mr. and Mrs. A. Hicks, apt. and and say they came from the He himself was defendant. inadvertently the oldest J.C.J.L. Captains. He Redington

Innes, Capt. and Mrs offered a packet of powder, but he left Mrs.

ALLEGED FALSE TRADE was of a cheery disposition and behind her wristlet watch valued Mitchell, Rev. G. E Arrowsmith refused to take it

"MARK: very well liked by everybody. at gold $300. The shop people Mrs. and Miss Arrowsmith, Miss Another witness an Indiáo

He leaves a wife and two immediately made efforts to re-ilayward, Mr. and Mrs. Ms. Mr. sergeant of the RG.A, deposed Before Mr. J. R. children, who are at Home.

store the article to its owner by and Mrs. T. A. Martin, 28. S. to having visited the house of Central Magistracy this posting up a notice cutside the Hidden, Mr. B. Wylie A. W. Abbas Khan where he saw Tin Po-lec, of No. 99, shop. They went further by Smith, Mr. T. Low, Mr and Mrs. number of people. On learning Street, appeared on a suma sending notices to the Hongkong Jackson, Mrs. D. J. Purves, Miss that they were conspiring against living in his possessi Hotel, where the visitors gather Harrison. Dransfield, Mrs. the defendant he told Abba Chica Navigation in groups, and also to the Fran- Lamieri Misa Wish Mrs. Khan that it was sinful to do such

godown at Connaught Road conia. The owner of the watch Eveleigh and Mr. E Rouillon, a thing. A dog belonging to Mr. Allan, was traced in the course of the Consul-General for Peru.

The case was adjourned for one bags of four to

trade mark had been upp chief engineer of the Macan boat day, and Mrs. Redington and th

to-day.

infringed mark was sust Chuen Chow; was taken to passengers on the vessel were. A motor bus knocked down a

**Kingfisher - mark, the prop Kennedy Town yesterday to be a little impressed by the honesty

Mesare. Dodwell and Co., kept under observation. ÷

at Kowloon City'

|_ Mr M/H. Turner app local shop-keepers. Needless to yesterday. The led sustained

behalf of the Company Captain Jones of the same vessel say the incident was the subject Injuries to his head and, had to be

His Worship · explained to in the leg shortly before it was of much talk amongst the taken to the Government Civil seized, and that it had also

defendant tin, detail, the previously attacked two other persons.

DOG THAT BIT.

It is reported that the animal bit and painstaking efforts of the Chinese boy

.

visitora

The weather conditions to-day,

Hospital.

Lalthough not as bad as yesterday, afternoon, when the visitors will are still not conducive to a realisa-" get their first glimpse of the New tion of the pleasures anticipated Territories,

COIN BOX THEFT.

TELEPHONE COMPANY

ROBBED.

It was reported to the police yesterday by the China and japan | murk, wez

For carrying eight passengers by our visitors. Two parties With all the arrencements Telephone Ca in excess of the number allowed making up a total of 180 left for being in the hands of it firm which coli, box by licens the mistress of a Macao this morning. The Can- stands for everything app coolie-boa was fined $6. at the ton boat also took 90. The re- ing to the tourist, the visitors 200 muy in the box was Marine Court this morning.

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