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Hongkong, Monday, July 13, 1925.

THAT REBUFF.

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the

MONDAY, JULY 13, 1925.

CORRESPONDENCE.

AGE OF CHINESE.

LEARNED.

ed in the Shameen, concession than the handful of British re- sidents who were subjected to the shameful outrage by the Russian- WHAT THE CHIEF JUSTICE led troops of the Canton Govern- ment. The handwriting is on the wall for the Canton leaders to read and to heed lest they' con- template countenancing another attack on Shameen. The British lion's tail may be twisted just

once too often!

Antichrist.

AFFECTS IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.

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The Chinese method of deter mining ages was a determining factor in an important. Supreme Court case in connection with which judgment was given this morning.

FERRY SERVICES.

(To the Editor of the China Mai).

Sir, I beg to crave a space in your correspondence column to contradict à statement which appears in your fasue of Saturday night, stating that the ferry- boats running from Hongkong to Cheung Chau, Shaukiwan, Kow The case of the defendant, said loon City and Aberdeen have all His Lordship, Sir Henry Cowper stopped, these men putting in no Gollan. Chief Justice, rested on appearance this morning.

So far as the ferry-boats run- the plea that he was under age at the time he signed the document ning between Hongkong, Shauki- in question (this was what the wan and Kowloon City are con- Industrial and Commercial Bank, cerned, they continued running on Ltd., claimed was a promissory Saturday and the men put in note of letter of guarantee under their appearance alright on that which they could claim $10,000 day and they are still running as from him).

usual.

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We shall be obliged if you will kindly publish this contradiction in your next issue for the inform- ation of the general public.

Yours, etc.,

THE EASTERN FERRY & CO.. Hongkong, July 12.

[Our information came in the

The voice of professional religion in the Colony has not been very audible so far in the matter of our present trubles Orthodoxy will go on its steady way, taking no sides but using petitions and prayers for a speedy deliverance out of all our, troubles with the usual catchwards of

His Lordship emphasised that "lasting peace," etc. Disturbers the defendant in an affirmation of the world's peace were wont to made in the course of the proceed be called Antichrists and suchings had stated that he had just one-time prominent individuals as attained the age of 21 when he Napoleon and the ex-Kaiser have signed the document and said that had this unenviable name thrust in the ordinary way such a state- upon them. It now remains for some prophet to use the name ment would be conclusive against adeponent. but the present nearer home and to apply it to circumstances ware peculiar ordinary way from an official "Rede" of whatsoever physical

As will be seen from a owing to the manner in which a source. colour they may be. No harm will be done, a little nonsense now man's age was constituted among paragraph elsewhere, the above

letter la correct.-Ed. "C.M."] Chinese. and then being relished in the He had learned in the course of most serious of times. Even so, the case. stated His Lordships

TIMELY ADVICE. there are those who take this that the age of a person, accord. matter seriously and a spice of ing to Chinese custom, was not (To the Editor of the China Mail.) today's news deals with the stated with reference to the actual│·

Sir, Will you attempt in America to put in date of birth, but according to the their place those whose modern number of years in which he had through the medium of your teaching and outlook compel them lived, and it was according to this columns to register a protest to discard the fundamentalism of possible for

a child to live two sgainst the vindictive tone which old evangelical Bible teaching and days and yet be two years old pro-ia gradually creeping into the to reach out for the new that, viding he was born on New Year's local Press, and even into official seemingly places reason frst and Eve.

utterances, when discussing the faith next. These latter are

unfortunate state of In view of this His Lordship present being dubbed "antichrists." The

Such a feeling is, no was convinced that an honest affairs. word is likely to assume a meas- mistake could easily be made re-doubt, natural under the circum- ure of importance denied it in garding age, and he considered it stances but a little reflection ordinary times. To use. it in unjust to hold the defendant should show us that it is both un- connection with the present con- absolutely bound by his statement. wise and unjust to give way to it. dition of things would be tudicrous, although seeing that much of it in China is against Christian teaching, it may well be used in a limited sense.

A TYPHOON.

HEADING DIRECT FOR.

HONGKONG.

allow me

Arriving at a decision with re- We are living, although in a gard to the defendant's age His British Colony, amongst the Lordship had taken into consider Chinese with whom most of us We ation the evidence of his mother must trade in order to live. and also that of his horoscope cannot get on without the Chinese which had had to be produced at nor they, I venture to say in spite the time of the defendant's marof the Canton Government's opin- It should be riage in order that it might beion, without s compared with that of the pro-borne in mind that the present posed bride, the idea of this being agitation has been carefully pre- to see that their constellations pared and fostered by the worst were in harmony, The inform- elements of Russia for their own ation contained in thig had been ends, co-operating with a com- TO-DAY'S WARNING.

calculated before any suggestion paratively small clique of Chinese, of litigation was made, said His partly malcontents out to line Warning was received at 11.30 Lordship, and he considéred it their own pockets and partly idealistic dreamers; Able coun- this morning of the presence of a honest and reliable. typhoon depression about 400 His Lordship held to be un- trymen of our own with a life miles away which is at present sound the argument of plaintiff's time's experience of China have heading direct for Hongkong. counsel that the domicile of the left on record their opinion that The radius and intensity are as defendant was Chinese and that the Chinese generally, particular- yet unknown and it is, of course, by Chinese law and custom the ly the poorer classes, are a kindly, He peaceable and industrious people, impossible to say with any degree age of majority was 16.

of certainty whether or not it will found in favour of the defendant, keep to its course, monsoons hav-but thought the justice of the ing on other occasions affected the case would be best met by leaving course of similar disturbances and cach party to pay its own costs. forced them further north.

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AMENDING PLEADINGS.

but the cunning of the profes sional agitator has given to the present movement the complexion of a great patriotic demonstration and when we remember the power of a patriotic appeal in our own If the speed of the typhoon is

In the course of his judgment country and the ignominy attach- that most common in the China His Lordship referred to what he ing to those who fail to respond Sea, the typhoon, providing its termed the frequency with which we should surely have at least as course remains unchanged, should applications were made in the much sympathy and admiration be here by about noon on Wednes-course of proceedings for amend for the great many loyal Chinese day, for when notification was ments of pleadings. The plead who are continuing in our midst first received this morning it was ings in an action had come almost at their regular duties, as blame

More than that it may not have about 400 miles away to the North to be regarded as polite, intima- for those poor sheep who have of the Luzon, the actual location tions to the Court as to the lines followed their leaders into the been possible for the British For being 13 degrees N., 121 degrees on which the parties intended at wilderness. Last 1 should be It is travelling W.N.Wthe time of filing them to conduct taken to counsel leniency to law- eign Secretary to have stated in E

direct for the Pratas Shoal and their respective cases, but that breakers and mischief makers I the condensed form of

а Gap Rock.

should either party think of a would urge on the contrary that cablegram. But, it reveals If Hongkong should find itself further point he was at liberty, at present and for such an out- the traditional British policy in the grip of a typhoon in the almost as a matter of course, to rage as that committed recently in on course of the next 48 hours it will rely on it. He would like to make Connaught Road, if our criminal man trusting the the spot and of telling the world be the first of such unpleasant ex-it clear, said His Lordship, that in code permits, the penalty should periences since the typhoon of the Supreme Court amendment be death preceded by fogging, that the fullest confidence is felt August, 1923, although as every-was not going to be allowed as a As, however, the perpetrators of in his actions. That is one view one dismally recalls, there were matter of course, particularly even such a crime as this may be to take of the Foreign Secretary's typhoon blows aplenty early in when the need for amendment sincere, though miagulded, message but it is not the only 1924, all most inconveniently at should have been obvious before patriots, it is unworthy of Bri..

of

one.

There is that rebuff to the

to

week-ends, too.

the hearing.

tish traditions to exult in their Number. 1 signal was hoisted

The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, punishment nor should we mako Canton Government a rebuff immediately after receipt of the K.C. (instructed by Measra. ridiculous rules calculated

warning,

Wilkinson and Grist), appeared make life in the Colony intolerable that cannot be welcomed by it in

The following telegrams have for the plaintiff Bank, and Mr. for those Chinese who remain. view of the previous desire ex-been received by the local Ameri-F. C. Jenkin (instructed by No more sedition is talked, for pressed by its spokesmen for time can Consulate-General from the Messrs. Deacon) for defendant. "to see what it can do" in the way Manila Observatory:-

12.40 p.m., July 12-Cyclone

of setting Canton's house in or typhoon E. of Luzon less then order after the eviction of the 800 miles distant, moving W, ör Yunnanese. Three months was W.N.W. asked as a sort of probationary period, but the new Government In Canton was not three weeks in power before it disclosed "what it can do"witness the attack on Shameen and the countenancing

4.30 p.m., July 12-Cyclone or typhoon E. of Northern Luzon, more than 800 miles distant, moving W. or W.N.W.

OBITUARY.

instance on Blake Pier than in the back streets of Wanchai or. Kennedy Town, nor is there any more danger of this occurring in the evening than during the day. Leave the "Canton Gazette" to MR. WILLIAM PRITCHARD. spit and fume but for God's sake let us keep our sense of propor-

·tion.

It is with regret that wo have to announce the death, which took place last night, of Mr. William Pritchard, principal warder of the Lai Chi Kok prison.

The late Mr. Pritchard remained

Yours, etc.,

X. Hongkong, July 12, 1925.

R.M.S. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.

The R.M.S. Empress of Russia of the strike in Hongkong. Now arrived at Nagasaki on July 12 The cablegram from

that the British Foreign Office has at 8 am, left Nagasaki the same at his duties until the last SOCIAL & PERSONAL. Foreign Secretary to the Consul seen, what the new Canton Gov-day, at 6 am and 13 due at feeling unwell some ten days ago. although he had complained of General at Canton has been the ernment can do it will be prepar-Shanghai on July 14, at 3. He passed away within a few of the Far Eastern Development Friends of Mr. Harry Strausser subject of much comment locally, ed for any emergency.

The steamer leaves Shanghai on hours of the completion of yester Co. Chefoo, will be interested to satisfaction being expressed ́ati There is yet another view of July 14, at noon.

day's duty. the fact that, although it may the Foreign Secretary's message London, July 11 Reuter Royal Navy and was for a time on Amelia Mayer of New York: Mr. Deceased had served with the Clara Mayer, daughter of Mra. hear of his engagement to Miss seem rather belated the attack to the Consul General, and that is learns that the British reply to the China Station. He had been Strausser is at present on a trip on Shamcen was made on June the stellent material it affords the Spanish request for interven in the prison service for five years to the United States, writes the 28-It administers a distinct re-for propaganda, plain and action interpretable as violating from Home leave. He was un-

tion in Morocco deprecates any and returned a few months ago China Mail's" Chefoo correspon- buff to the Government of adorned, amongst all sections of the neutrality of the Tangier married...

dent, Canton The Foreign Secretary the Chinese community; ........

munity. The zone, to which it is not considered entirely-homologater the warning

a na po there to hry Immediate dangerment this evening at 5.30 p.m.

The funeral will, pase the monks The proposal put forward by Bir sent to Dr. Wu by Sir J. W. Congul-General has been support. It belleves that the meatures pro-

Samuel Chapman and a number of ed, and will continue to be supposed might have provocative Jamieson, as of course it was, ex-tran

other Unionist members for a pected it would, and, morecver, ported by all the weight behind effect, and adds that the British Madrid, July 12, The French volitary restriction of the length expresses the hope that Sir J. W the British Foreign Office. That Government is willing to con- and Spanish delegates to the of speeches in the House of Com Jamieson will continue to handle means not merely the British Gov- tinue to co-operate policing terri- Moroccan conference have signed mons. It receiving considerable the situation with his accustomed

ernment, but the whole British torial waters, but is unable to an agreement in regard to politis support, and it is expected that Empire, which I no los interest to any extension of these cal co-operation in Morocco more than 100 member will join skill and Judgment.

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the movement