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一拜頭。魏十二月四年五十二百九千一英

HONGKONG, MONDAY APRIL 20, 1925,

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TEN YEARS AND “CAT.”

ROBBER GETS

HIS

DESERTS.

TWO YEARS OLD CRIME.

This Morning's Criminal Sessions Cases.

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The most striking feature of to-day's Criminal Sessions was the heavy penalty imposed by Mr. J. R. Wood, the new Puishe Judge, on a man convicted of participation in a two years of robbery.

Repulse Bay Home Robbed.

MRS. BOWES-SMITH'S LOSSES.

FOUR MONTHS' JAIL FOR

SOULPRIT. :

property received was a leather Amongst some of the stolen cash boxe coral necklace, locker and a magnifying glass.

THE - DOLLAR.

-To-day's closing" min! af3- 1/16 Today's openingɔente 2/3, 1/16-

日八十月三丑乙大曲十四十國民事中

TRADE SLUMP.

THE AUSTIN SEVEN.

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OMINOUS PIECEGOODS OUTLOOK.

Native

FEARS OF A CRISIS.

Dealers Feeling the

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month,

MEN'S

BATHING

Fears that a crisis in local commerce may follow the plecegopda alump are causing much anxiety to the mercantile community.

Mr. Wood's first case was that automatic pistols of asking him

The mystery attending the dis- made in the "China Mail to the or

Reference has already been the hindrances to free transport of Mak Sum, charged with rob (defendant) to give him $600 for appearance of a number of articles reported failure of a piecegoods hitherto ordered through Hang- the waterways. Stocks hery on April 15, 1923, at Wong the privilege of being let off the belonging to Mr

dealer of fifty-eight years' stand- kong import firms were piling up Nel Cheong Village. In the search. The arms were found in Bay, on various dates last month in

Smith, of" Eddiville, Repulse

Other native dealers are hero. Another disadvantage is course of her evidence the wife of a box in the prisoner's possessions solved when the police search feeling the pinch of decreased the increasing discount on Canton the robbed man accused the pri-fon board the "Ling Chow," soner of having forced into her

ed, on suspicion, the abode of a values and high rates of interest. subsidiary silver coins, in which Sentenced to seven years' im-young Chinese who had worked on loans with which to carry plecegoods are gold in the interior. husband's mouth some poisonprisonment. which had caused his death about The min arrested with a re-thefts. {

as a house cools at the time of the stocks.

This factor is tantamount to bwelve days later, but the Crown volver and Hve rounds of am-

$

On Saturday night, the Jervois adverse exchange. : . Solicitor, Mr. Whyte Smith, said munition in his possession as a

chants) hold a guild meeting to Hongkong General Chamber of Street dealers (wholesale mer- It was decided to approach the that there was some sort of sug- result of apice search on a tram

tevise steps to cope with the Commerce for assistance. gestion that the remedies which car on April 6 was sentenced to the man had used had aggravated five years' imprisonment.

Α situation." Between sixty, and letter was to be addressed to the the injuries.

seventy were present. Although two years had elapsed bullets in the revolver were dum

was brought about mainly by the period of four months by an It will be remembered that the

generally agreed that the, slump the extension of the delivery It was Chamber to-day asking-for- (1) between the time of the robbery'dums. and the arrest of the prisoner, the

chaotic up-country conditions and additional six months (2) and the woman had had no difficulty in.

waiving (by the importing fongs) picking the man out from thirteen

of the interest which would, others at the police station. Ques-: tioned by Mr. Justice Wood she

according to contract, accrue said that she would only be able to

through non-clearance within the recognise the other men who took

stipulated period. part in the robbery "partly per cent this man she recognised fully per cent." because he was the one who had tied her husband up. The others had not shown their faces.

The defendant pleaded not guilty this morning but in previous tatements he had confessed to participation in the robbery. At the Magistracy he had stated that he had been arrested by a police-. man who had told him that he was going to get him employment.on a Government launch. .This policeman had told him that unless he confessed he would be beaten to death.

defendant

The jury found uilty and Mr. Justice Wood sen- tenced him to ten years' hard Jabour and twelve strokes of the "pat."

STOLEN CHILD.

Child stealing formed the sub- fect of the next charge, defendant being Tam Wing. Mr. Whyte Smith said that a boy had been confided to the care of a relative in Hongkong who was a tailor and to whom he was apprenticed. He disappeared on February 27 and suspicion fell on the defen- dant who was the adopted son of the tailor and had taken the boy cut to tea on several occasions. On being questioned by the mother of the boy the defendant said "you need not be afraid, I can recover him."

At the police station he had stated that he and another man had taken the boy to Macao where they had received $25 each from a "dealer, in child- ren." The boy had not been seen by his relatives since. (Case proceeding.)

At the Central Magistracy this the accused pleaded guilty to two morning, before Mr. H. R. Butters, charges of theft and unlawful

BRITAIN STIRRED BY GRAVE SCANDAL.

„ABOVE, LABUT", "COL/DANNISTOUN. GENISIR.JOHN COVAINS Ben HRS TAD DELNIFTOUN. 229 COUNTESS JÚCARKANYON

In suing her former husband, Leutenant-Colonel Ian Önstow Dennistoun for the recovery of £1,100 she declared she advanced for the pyntents of his debts, the first Mra, Dennistoun declared in a London court that her husband urged her to establish a liaison with the late General Sir John Cowans, Quarter- master General of the British Army during the war, who died in 1821, and that by virtue of her intimacy with Cowans Dennistoun gained rapid promotion and easy military appointments. Colonel Dennistoun has besh married to the second Mrs. Dennistoun, who was the widow of the Earl of Since their divorce Carnarvon, discoverer of the Tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Aman. The present Countess of Carnarvon is her daughter-in-law. One of the first gra, Dennistoun's letters to her husband, read in court, said: "If you don't do something for me, I will be only expose your character, but will show you were living with Lady Carnarvon (the older) during her husband's life.""

CRICKET HOPES.

POSSIBLE INTERPORT

MATCH.

possession; one in respect of the

properly of Mrs. Bowes-Smith and

SHOT IN BACK. ̧*

the other relating to a sliver KOWLOON CITY ROBBERY cigarette case.

Sergeant McTerian sald that on

ARRESTS.

In an interview "by the "Wah Tez Yat Po," a leading merchant explained that there were over one hundred and forty firms which imported piecegoods, on indent, for account of native dealers. Old established firms might be able to help by extending the period for effecting delivery but some of the juniors might not be able to do so.

COSTUMES

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A number of gentlemen were taking steps to avert a crisis, these steps being similar to those adopted when danger threatened the yarn trade some years ago. A European expert with over twenty years experience in the local' piecegoods trade had 1000 approached the Hon. Mr. "P. H. Holyoak (chairman of the Cham- ber of Commerce), saya the article, and Mr. Holyoak was very sympathetic.

It is hoped that a certain amount of give and take will help materially to tide matters over and with the collaboration of the

"Des Voeux Road.:

banks, hopes are entertained that ICE CREAME

a solution will be forthcoming.

That the matter is one of extreme urgency is revealed in the attitude of the native bankers some of whom are stated to be pressing dealers for the payment of advances.

PIRATE ATTACK.

"PARROT'S BEAK" GANG

ปา FOILED.

LOCAL VESSELS' ESCAPE.

"Parrot's

Beax," already notorious in the annale of Canton of another attempt to moleat two River piracy, has been the scene

Hongkong vessels. Fortunately, being arrested, the, accused two MORE MEN IN CUSTODY: two pirates are believed to have the attack was frustrated, and alleged that he bought the hawker, but he had failed to point cigarette case from a marine The armed robbery in which six and falling into the river.

met their doom, after being skot out the man although he had been valued at $525 from a hut at To towed an

men secured a haul of property

Five days ago a steam launch given every opportunity to do so. Koo Ling village in the Kowloon Hongkong, bound for Wuchow, The value of the cigarette case, City district provided a further where it was to pick up a cargo of empty lighter out of

The Magistrate sentenced the he added, was £6.58.

development when another two firewood. the first charge and dismissed the accused four months' hard labour or

arrests were made during the Near "Parrot's Beak" in the other charge.

week-end.

were between

BANISHED MEN RETURN. Three possession of arms cases and two of breaches of deporta-

A VISIT TO SHANGHAI? tion orders were heard in the Supreme Court before His Lord-

Shanghai may have a chance of ship, Sir Henry Cowper Gollan, retrieving the Chief Justice.

Ashes" as there is a possibility of Hongkong sending The well worn excuse of a up an interport cricket team, leav mother's funeral to which he was ing on May 8 or 9 returning through Hongkong Owing to the all-important ques availed one of the deportees little. tion of leave It is hardly to be He had been deported as an "un- expected that the strongest team desirable" for life and was will be available. Still, according arrested here in connection with a to the latest information, several

On the gang entering the hut at Heungshan district three parti- theft..

9 p.m. last Monday, a little boy of very fast speed, approached cularly long rowing boats, capable of the team which defeated Singa.

slipped away unobserved and gave the two vessels. In each of the He was 'sentenced to three pore and Shanghai, in Hongkong,

timely information at the Police years' hard labour.

at the beginning of this season,

TICKET INCIDENT,

ten and Station. The police quickly turned boats The other deportee had been are being discussed. What with

out at the hut, but found that the twenty pirates most of whom arrested in connection with a the usual glorious uncertainty and robbery and was sentenced to 18 the memory of Hongkong's victory at the Central Magistracy this haul. Later, they came upon two

Before Mr. S B. B. McElderry, robbers had got away with the were brandishing firearms of all

kinda. months' imprisonment with hard in Shanghi the year before last, morning, a Chinese youth was men hiding under an embankment Going alongside the lighter, the labour.

if wou'd be decidedly rash to charged with evading payment of and they were both arrested after pirates attempted to clamber on A man who ran away from a make any predictions.

tramway fare.

a chase, one of them having to be deck but were frustrated through police picket between Mongkok The Rev. E. K. Quick, with his

Evidence was given by a tram shot in the back before he the lighter being empty and, and Shamsuipo was found to have ripe experience, has been asked to way conductor that on asking the surrendered.

therefore, standing high out of. been in possession of a revolver be captain. He justified his being defendant for his fare he was met The wounded man is at in the water. and three rounds of ammunition sent in to bit first in the last series with the question whether it was hospital, but his confederate, who several efforts to

The gang made board the which were picked up by the road-played here and his right-handed necessary to pry as he tended to had a dagger in his possession, lighter. Meanwhile the coxswain side. He denied the charge and slow bowling brought about a travel poly a short distance. After was formally charged before Mr. of the launch had ordered his said that they were the property Reparation whenever the A151

repeated requests the conductor E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon crew to open fire. Returning the of someone else, there having been line of attack looked like being falled, to receive the fare and he Magletracy this morning, when be fire, the pirates made off as fast others who ran away from the beaten.

that had the defendant arrested. The was remanded until Friday, Others of the last Hongkong defendant on'

as they could with the launch. picket. The defendant was fired

the other hand The two men arrested" subse steaming away in the other at five times by the police before team who have been asked if they claimed that he had a ticket bear- quently will be charged before direction. he was brought down. Evidence can go include A. C. I. Bowker, Pay log the figures p807, which he the Magistrate in due course. was given to the effect that the C.Q.M.S. Stripp, Bast Surrey Regt. He accused the conductor of cheat-

Lieut.-Com Hargreaves, RN alleged the conductor threw away." defendant had thrown the weapon and A. W. Ramsay of the Kowloon ing him: Records were produced away as he ran.

Cricket Club. He was sentenced to eight

to prove that the ticket is question Mr. H. E. Hollande informed was not lisued for that particular years' hard labour.

the China Mail this-morning, jo i trip. Chun-You-wing accused the response to inquiries, that the The Magistrate Imposed a ne constable who arrested him for Committee has been working to of $5.) having in his possession four get a side together for about #

month. Many of the members of Tor 48,qurs.ended yesterday, by cattle and poultry dealers, Chang Chau fishing boat picked the team had been granted leave one cal and full particulars would be one care

The Sanitary: Board is to meet available, he hoped, in the courte to-morrow at 4.15 pr

of the next few daysladdare

$1,300 ROBBERY.

Six men, armed with knives and 6.30 yesterday morning when „revolveri: semured a good haul- at:

they visited "the two upper floors of. 262, Des Voeux Road, occupied.

The inmates were bound and the robbers escaped

vellers estimate

at

fever (Indian ebro-spinal fever gaze of rubies (a đón)

Were Fot

The coxswain reports that he. noticed two pirates fall into the water as though they had been Bhot.

It was reported to the police on Saturday that the crew of a

up four men from a derelict Junk off Wagian. The men had gondi through great privations before their rescue/pi

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