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LIBEN 30

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1925.

China" Mail

Temperature 74, Barometer 29.76

Rainfall 0.00 in., Humidity" 80

No.: 19,501

THE DOLLAR

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The Colony to-day lost one of its best known residents through the death of Mr. C. Montagne Ede following prolonged ill health. The news of his passing will cause profound regret to ull classes of the community.

Mr Ede was always a keen

At the time of his death int his residence. "Derrington." No. student of politics in China. In 8. Peak Road, at 10 o'clock this Shanghai, he was adviser to the morning) the e Mr. Meringue Viceroy of Nanking and subse Ede had with him his wife and || quently

to the Tuchun of son-in-law, Major

Mrs. and

Szechuan.. Rotherum. His only son will re- The Hongkong Excavation, Pile ceive the newa on his way

Driving and Construction Co. from Home, having been corn-Ltd, and subsidiary concerns municuted with when his father's closed offices to-day as a mark of illness took on a more pericus respect to the memory of the late Mr. Montague. Ede who was It will be remembered that arominently connected with them. health trip to California had been funeral service will inke planned for the late Mr. Montague place at St. John's Cathedral at} Ede who

was to have left Just 5 nm, to-day. Saturday..

Mr. Edel who was fi0 years of age, was of Cornish descent-Dist was born at Constantinople. He joined

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Society of Canton, in March, 1884. being a pointed" general munage? 1907. by the forty years he was connected with it he largely responsible for the bald- ing up of what is now a mget ex- tensive business organisation.. La July last Mr. Ede resigned from the Company and his places General Manager was taken by Mr. Paul Lauder.

BUSINESS CAREER/>

Mr. Ede's first twenty-four years were spent princițially with the company's" establishments at Shanghai and Yokohama. It was in 1908 that he succeeded Mr. W. J. Saunders as General Manager of the Union Insurance Society and its masspointed come panies. Sirve that date new Branches of the Society has been established at - Tokyo, Hankow, Tientsin. Surabaya, Bombay, Sydney. Adelaide, Brisbane,

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The China Fire Insurance Co., Lid.. and the North China Insur- ance Co. Ltd. was alroggated with the Union Co. In 1915 the capital of the company was in- creased to $4,000,000 and four years later to £2,000,000. When

Mr. Ede assumed charge in 1908 the Union Society's total assets were approximately a million sterling and when he retired in May last year, the figure was over five millions.

PUBLIC SERVICE,

Following the announcement of his retirement, Mr. Ede was ap- pointed an Unofficial Member of the Executive Council, In 1918

It was due mainly to Mr. Ede's efforts that the Publicity Bureau for South China has come into being.

LATEST RESULTS.

MANILA'S FAR EAST OLYMPIAD.

TENNIS DOUBLES.

CHINESE FIRST IN THE PENTATHLON,

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"BREAKERS AHEAD..

CANTON'S

IMPENDING TROUBLE.

COMPLICATED SITUATION.

The Pretty Game

ENGLISH

Game of Political Bluff FOULARD NECKTIES

Owing to the fashion set by Peking of preferring intrigue to actual fighting, Canton and even Hongkong are becoming hotbede of conspiracy.

he chooses.

(Reuter's Service.)"

Manila, May 22.

To quote the worse of the more to-day, It is an open scoret ("China" Mailˆ œ** Canton (corres-that General Yung Hsi-man, who won first place with 2.431 points. Covernment is standing pat on

In the Pentathlon, Wu (China)

pondenk, the present" Canton leads the Yunnan adventurers in Danao was second with 2,428 hand worth a pair of swos. but he can.

a Cupton, is out to stay as long u points Ice third with 2,825, and is buling is rivals into laving out of the way, he will be free to With the Kuomintang Pasaporte fourth with 2.121. their lands down. Accordingly, puries any conTER sented the Philippices). (Dango. Ico and Pasaporte repre-r. Sunfollowers may you put of morted his name Two Japanese coaches partiently the day of their fad with Tuchun Tong Chiyao of cipated in the Pentathlon.

mision, from Canton)

Yuanan but that worthy soems to In the tennis doubles. Japan controlling the little civil power mush-vaunted invasion of Canton, The Noominang is the party he too busy, himmelt to launch his defeated the Philippines by 6-4. uliowed them by their powerful According to messages receivedi, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. (No names are given military "subordinales." but Kobayashi and Yoshida are If at any time within the last Tang

our Canton cœurispondeat, is in hot water, Japan's doubles representatives), fox years, the Yunnanese mercaving the security of his ceraries have held the trump kamin, he led un expedition curds in Canton, they too ovali Kwang, but his rivales stirred up trouble for him. The hatest re- port now is lust he has. Alek

Whether ho Imps or has not flet. His pt, secondary, importance,

His influence on Genen Yang has | übeen counterneted. by vague prom- Liges From the Kuomintang, Govern, nept. Taft to Iris own devices it. may be that Yang will refrain from taking the bit between his tenth and attempting to drive out the men who seihin in power.

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Swimming Final.

100 metres:-1, Takaishi; 2,

QUAINT STORY OF BOOZE" AND BRIBES FROM RUM ROW.

'Rear-Admiral Billard."

MADELINE

The richest story of "rum rew" came to light with the 100-mile chase and capture of the schooner, Madeline Adame, by a coast guard cutter which had wireless orders to "chuse her to London if neces- sary." it developed that rum runners had attempted to bribe coast guardsmen on a smaller vessel actually to go out to the Madeline Adams, take on a carge of liquor and lund it for the bootleggers. The cargo was taken off by the voast guard bont, but instead of delivering it, the rum runners it was turned over to the officials and the bootleggers were arrested. Then the coast guard cutter was ordered to mea to "get" the big schooner, which had a 450,000 whisky cargo on bourd. Rear-Admiral F. G. Billbyrd in Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard, He mobilised the greater part of the entire "dry navy against the rom-running fleet.

STATION INCIDENT.

MR, PRAYFIELD CONVICTED OF TRESPASS.

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$80 FINE AND BOUND OVER.

Mr. T. G... Brayfield, of Messrs. Carinichiael and Clarke, was fined $50 and was bound over'

Mihiata: 3, Tanaka (all Japan), 4. Osias (Philippines). Time: 1 min. 4 seca,

200 metres breast stroke:-1, Yldefonso (Philippines) 2. Sugita; 3, Tokito; 4, Sakakura; (all Japan). Time:-2 mins. 5.9/10 secs.

At basketball, Philippines beat Japan by 68 to 8,

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tach at the Marine Court this morning for having dangerous goods other than in the dangerous anchorage,

PROBATE ACTION.

$189,000 AT

STAKE.

A. FOURTH WIFE'S POSITION.

The position of a fourth wife under Chinese law was again the subject of much legal reference and quotation at the Supreme | Court this morning when the case

was re-heard in which a brother of Chan Yau deceased'sues his fourth wife for having, as he claims, wrongfully entered a caveat for letters of administration in respect of estate estimated at the value of $189,000.

It is his claim that as the only next of kin of mature age he is

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MACKINTOSH

One day, Dr. Sun's romanty appear as if their days are number- ed, it almost"the next, their atar me lo be again in the ascendant. Our Canton correspondent says that those who ought to know aae feeling med at the frond of ■ Laľ crèdits which may, indeed, bo only be straws in that wind. Tho Kapi

Berair qurtig Yesterday it way lavo Rope at the tender mercies of its con "nervenaries, but by intrigue XxxxxxxxxXXXXXXX

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to the extent of clipping" the Yugranese wings. (1 43 other hoad, Gienemli Yang may still, de- Fire to be raler of Cunton in nume ns well as in fact." In either case, trouble will have to come,

It.in useless to deny that the trouble will have to come sooner or later as there are too many petty leaders in the province. The quicker the majority of them are expelled, the better it will be for the populace.

Later,

Another report has been receiv- ed purporting to confirm Tangi Chi-yao's flight from his own province.

Troops in Canton are on the qui vive for emergencies from un- expected quarters. There have

been many military movements on both sides of the river and guards have been increased.

JUST TOO LATE !

FERRY PASSENGER'S MISHAP.

FALL INTO THE HARBOUR.

Stated to have attempted to board a "Star" Ferry while the boat was beginning to get under way, a Portuguese resident fell

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entitled to as regarded as the into the harbour at the Kowloon ICE CREAM

side about 9 o'clock this morning. As far as could be seen he was swam back to the steps. not in any great danger and he

of the sons, a claim, strengthened, STOP she holds, by, the natural mother having expressly nominated her to look after them.

for a year in a personal surety of! At the Marine Court this morn $200 it yederday's hearing of the 3ng, the master of a junk was fired he was appointed to the Legisla curge against him of using insult- $5 for lying inshore during pro tive Council and again served insting language to the Taipo Station hibited hours.. year. He was one of the first Master of the, Kowloon-Canton į group of members nominated on Railway. The Magistrate (Mr. Two junkmasters were fined $50 the Court of the University in S. B. R. Meßlderry) held that the 1911 and has been a Justice of the charge included trespass and it was Peace since 1908. Mr. Ede has on this thus he convicted. rendered valuable service to the Tu, the course of the case Mr. Chamber of Commerce by work F. G. Visus, who appeared for Mr. on the committee. He was Chair Brayfield, said that had talked man of the Reception Committee with his client regarding the offer..

rightful natural guardian of two for the Prince of Wales visit. which His Worship had made of to people whose duty it was not to infant sons left by the deceased.

binding him over without recording allow an acimulation of filth hand holds that as she is the sole The defendant on the other conviction. He (Mr. Vaux) had here. His Worship here remark- urged his client seriously to con- ed that it was not an ordinary surviving wife or concubine of the sider the position and Mr. Bray trespass to effect an object. Mr consider as the natural guardian deceased she is entitled to be The Portuguese community of Beld had stated that if the Brayfield threw bottles, down and Hongkong will always have a provocation and the nuisance were did other things. warm corner in their hearts for dealt with in a reasonable way by Mr. Brayfield was called to the Mr. Ede. Some years ago he at the railway authorities he was witness box by his solicitor, and tempted to create a Portuguese agreeable to the case being dealt His Worship asked if he died Garden City' in the Colony to pro- with on those lines.

that he went to the station-master & His Worship remarked that the office and threw down two bottles tect the Portuguese clerk from soaring rents. The failure of the offer was now rather old. Assum deliberately. scheme did not dishearten him as

he Mr. Brayfield replied that the ing there was provocation he turned his attention to Kow-thought the defendant had gone bottles dropped out of his hand.

too far And what was more in The Magistrate pointed out that loon Tong. He became general spite of having had time to con glass had been found all around the manager of the Kowloon Tong sider the matter fally he did not foor. Bayfield replied that and New Territories Development regret that he was in the wrong. Co. which is building 250 houses which must be obvious, but per- broken glass would fly about in any and contemplates an expenditurested in the contention that he had event. He would give a practical of $8,000,000 to relieve the Colony's pressing house shortage. bad names and throw down bottles His Worship permitted

a right to call the station-master demonstration butside the Court if More recently, the public has in his office. To his (the Magie read of the latest production of trato's) mind that alienated a Mr. Ede's brain, a labour coolsims for leniency, on the grounds operative company, the object of of provocation. which was an end to strikes in Mr. Vaux citested the right, of Hongkong.

His Worsip to proceed on charge of trespass but was over Cilat He then manten the nuisance at Taipo gerous to life, and a healt Brayfield had a

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His Worship No thanks, These answers His Worship said he considered sufficient for con viction on the sharge of trespass,

Mr Vaur protested in that he had been allowed no opportunify ing his withes SAVORAREN

and the defendant and:

Fubg Sze-lun, a Canton solicitor, morning by Mr. F. C. Jenkin as to was cross-examined at length this

Chinese law and custom. It being the defendant's claim that she was entitled to be looked upon as the compassionate "mother questions

ds to the legal position in regard mother wers put to him. It was to estate of the compassionate

PRESS.

PRINCE GEORGE.

underfew circumstances, he stated, (From Our Own Corresponder that the compassionate" mother's mother, rights wore the same as the natural

the Hou. Mr. G. G. Alabaster KG

The plaintiff was represented by and Mr Elaley Zeitlyn, the defendant by Mr. Eldon Potter K.C, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (both instructed by Mr. Wu)A

Singapore, May 22. Prince George arrived here by train from Penang. He stays Government House. Het the "Malwa" and leaves for Hor kong on Sunday morning,

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