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Hong Kong, Wodnesday, Oct. 13, 1926.

BACK TO THE PARISH PUMP!

If the passing of the boycott a new innings for the parish pump, let our communal

means

CONVOY SYSTEM.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1926.

THE RIGHT HORSE.

CHINESE CHAMBER ADVISES CANTON WILL CONQUER ALL

RENEWAL.

PICKETS DOPARTURE SEQUEL..

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CHINA.

KARAKHAN'S "TIF;""

Vladivostok, Oct. 6.

BANK CLOSURE.

WINDING UP PETITION ADJOURNED.

RUSSO-ASIATIQ BANK.

in the Summary Court this morn- Among other matters dealt with at yesterday's meeting of Ambassador Karakhan, the Rus-ing (acting during the vacation for the Chinese General Chamber of sinn envoy to Poking and probably the Chief Justice in Bankruptcy), Commerce was that of the armed the next Foreign Minister of the Mr. Justico. Wood granted an ad- convoy aystem for the protection Soviet government, said in a news-Journment in respect of an appli of shipping by the Hong Kong paper interview published to-day cation for the winding up locally of Government..

that the Cantonese Army would be the Russo-Asiatic Bank.

Mr. H. G. Sheldon made the: ap- Some time ago, the opinion of victorious in the present civil war

plication, being Instructed by the Chamber as to the desirability and conquer the whole of China.. of reinstituting the convoy service He arrived. here yesterday from Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Mastor. was asked for by the then Colonial Shanghai and le on his way to Mos. He represented the patitioning..ero- Secretary but as the picket cow via the Trans-Siberian railroad. ditor, Mr. Au Fung-chau. nuisance which was then in being hampered the movement of ves- sels on any large scale, the Cham- ber had not hitherto replied.

At yesterday's meeting, how- ever, it was announced that, after consultation with the principal shipping interests, the Chamber was in favour of advising the re- stofation of the convoy"system:

Mr. El Yau-tsun presided over the meeting supported by Mr. J. M. Wong, vice-chairman, and Mr. Ip Lan-chuen, general secre- tary.

The petition had been presented: on September 28, Mr. Sheldon safd; and the hearing fixed for to-day. The adjournment was asked for owing to certain documents not be ing yet available.

The Officia! Receivor. Mr. D. W.. Tratman, had no objection and His Honour granted the adjournment, the necessary advertisement to be in the same form..

4.

At Mr. Sheldon's request, His Honour made a note that at this the Arst hearing the petition had "not boon opposed.

[Another report on this subject appears on page 2. in the commer- cial section.

DRIVER IN TROUBLE.

REMAND ON MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE

The question of the better work be shared by many more supervision of the searching of than in the past. Good as is the police on outgoing and incom- luggage and other packages: by Municipal Council for fostering ing stepmers again came up for the civic spirit the absence of discussion. The problem before such is no excuse for shunning the Chamber was how to advise and evading the duties of citizen-the Police Authorities on this: matter, as it could not recommend ship. A broader vision is requir-the abolition of the practice, and!“ ed to cope successfully with local it was considered impractical to affairs. Mere denunciation of the "ask" for higher officials to direct He predicted that the "people's

the searches in all cases. **

army" of the north was rapidly re-ji parish pump because of its very

TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS: After yome "discussion, the organising itself and was anxious. parochialism will not lead to a matter was referred back to the to free northern China "from the

Manslaughter was the charge solution of Hong Kong's problems. Hotel Guild, which made the com-grip of the reactionary forces under Parochialism, admittedly, can be plaint with the suggestion that Marshal Chang Tso-lim" He said preferred against the driver of a possibly a joint private meeting that the southern armies were motor lorry, in the Kowloon Magis-

a determination to tracy this morning. carried to extremes, but there is of representatives of the GuildActuated by always a happy mean that can and the Chamber might be held suppress the unequal treaties be Defendent was employed by the easily be found by the individual The secretary read a number oftween China and foreign powers-Sanitary Department. An old Chi-

communications addressed to the "United Press." desirous of leaving the Colony a Chamber, including one from the better place than,he found it..

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NEW BUSES.

AUGMENT REPULSE BAY SERVICE,

nese woman was knocked down at Moscow, Oct. 12" the junction of Nathan Road and M. Karakhan has arrived here Saigon, Street some days ago and family of the late Mr. Ho Fook, thanking the Chamber for its to consult the Soviet Government she died subsequently.

SubInspeeter A. Nicoll of the sympathy in the family's recent on the Chinese situation-Reuter,Trafic Office, applied for a remand

bereavement, and one from the

Chinese Society in Cuba advising

against further Chinese emigra ALLEGĖD PICKETS.

tion to that country.

EVADING FARE.

TWO EMPLOYEES USING ONE TICKET.

TRAMWAY CASE.

of

1

A MAN WHO WAS A PROPER

SOLDIER...

AMUSING DISCLOSURES.

which was granted till next Tues- liday,

His Worship (Mr. J. H. By N fixed bail in the sum of $500. ($200- in eash and the balance by two {sureties)

A fine of $25 was imposed by" His Worship on the driver of an-" other lorry for having an improper hand brake.

A Chinese böy of about two

*FLYING SQUAD.” MEETING OF PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS.

With the passing of the boycott the parish pump will have a chance to come back into its own.

Two new and luxurious motor buses which have been added by Purely local affairs have been the Hong Kong Hotel Garage to inore or less under a cloud for the Repulse Bay service will

Two Chinese were charged at the years was toddling across Canton sixteen months. The Colony has eliminate difficulty experienced in

Mr. A. Gillard, of the Hong Kong Central Magistracy "yesterday with Road when he was nearly run over been content to "carry on" with the past in maintaining a full

service on all routes when any of Tramway Company, prosecuted two the theft of a cargo of vegetables, by, the lorry and this led to the the least possible attention to the the vehicles have been undergoing Chinese youths before Mr. R. Evalued at $426, from San Hut, Po prosecution.

Traffic Sergeant Smith pro- local problems that matter-end repairs."

Lindsell at the Central Magistracy On district, Chinese territory.

Defendants were arrested when secuted. many that do not.

The new cars are Miller built this morning with misuse

they brought the cargo to Hong The easiest thing in the day's models on Studebaker chassis, the monthly ticket.

design and fittings making them.

Defendants were both employees Kong, and it was alleged by the life here is to find a complaint or the last word in comfortable tra- of the Kin Yuen firm, of No. 26, prosecution that they were in the It was stated company of strike pickets who Bred a grievance. The Colony is sim-velling. Each passenger has a Des Voeux Road. ply swarming with them. But all bucket seat, the cushions and that the first defendant was found on the boat and took possession.

Mr. D. McCallum, who appeared) backs being built on Earber double using the ticket" on Tuesday, and eyes have been centred so much deck springs, amely padded and when questioned gave the name ap- for the defence, suggested that the

Members of the Automobile on Canton that may "handy an-upholstered in brown leather, this pearing on the ticket and the ad-complainants lost their own cargo nuals" have almost withered. together with the wide aisle and dress of the shop. The following of vegetables and accused the de Association having been circulat- Many, indeed, are sadly faded for ideal for local conditions.

spacious windows making them day the second defendant used the fendants who had brought their ed as to the willingness of any ticket while travelling in a car.. cargo down to Hong Kong of having possessing motor cycles to join lack of the necessary attention. Driven by Traffic Sergeant

Some difficulty arose when the stolen it.

the "flying squad" or volunteer second defendant said that his One of the complainants who

attached to the police to corps It is a moot point whether this is Mason and carrying seven passen-name was not Wong Kin-yaen, the gave evidence at the first hearing assist in patrol and other work, a

gers, one of the vehicles made a all for the good. Goodness knows trial run to the town and back to name appearing on the ticket. Mr. of the case laat week was cross meeting of those signifying their the community is not so articulate the Central Police Station com- Gillard said that the defendant was examined at length by Mr willingness to join has been fixed as it should be in years in which pound along Garden Road and pointed out by a shep employee as McCallum and gave "interesting for this evening when the duties

the man bearing that name. details of village life.

of the proposed new corps will be ware and strikes, and boycotts Arbuthnot Road this morning

The first defendant, who admit

Asked what occupation the first

explained. play no part. Spasmodic efforts route gave ample scope for testing name, was fined $10.

The sharp gradients on the ted that he used a ticket not in his defendant followed, witness said The case he was formerly a farmer but now are made to create and sustain the efficiency of the brakes which against the other youth was ad-kept company with the pickets. public interest in vital local pro-acted smoothly even no sudden ap-journed for one week for the mas Mr. McCallum: You are a man blems; but the talk and the action plication without causing the ter of the shop to be called.

passengers any discomfort... are generally confined-like every- thing else here to a select few who do not seem to mind shoulder- ing other people's, troubles and airing other people's grievances. The bulk of the community and we write now only of the non- Chinese portion--are content to drift along in a happy-go-lucky

With its blue painted body and large luggage box at the rear, the bus attracted considerable atten-

TYPHOON TOLL.

of extraordinary little consequence

THE WEATHER.

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in your village, aren't you?—I am The official forecast of the wen- a farmer in a small way.

ther, for Hong Kong and coast; till During the whole of the time the noon to-morrow is fresh, Eant strike and boycott has been in winds, fine.

tion in the course of the trial JUNK WRECKED AT PO TOI operation has your village suffered Formosa Channel: Strong N.E.

run.

Including the driver who sits by himself, the bus has. basket scate for 14 persons.

ISLAND.

at all?-No.

winds.

At 10.55 a.m. the Observatory reported:--

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Have there ever been any pickets ELEVEN CASUALTIES.

in your village at all?-1 can't say.

Pressure has decreased moderate-. They might have been there while. Further details have been re- was working in the fields. ly at Nemure and slightly at ceived regarding the rescue of And throughout the strike you Aparri and Cape St. James. It is thirty-three Chinese who were have been sending your produce to nearly stationary over, Indo-China. fashion, hearing not and heeding ITALIAN OPERA CO. cast ashore on Po Toi island dur-Hong Kong because it offers the and has increased slightly else-

not the turning of the parish

pump handle. The call to real citi- zenship, sad to confess, apparent- ly is heard by few.

Ing the typhoon.

best market open to you 7-Yes. where. These were the survivors of a It has been your habit to sell The anticyclone over China has TO PLAY IN THE "STAR," trading junk which left Hoifung produce to farmers who have strengthened slightly

KOWLOON.

on Thursday carrying 29 passen-formed themselves into a group, to The typhoon is about 250 miles gers in addition to a crew of five bring it down to Hong Kong-Yes. N. of Manila travelling West, It Owing to a delay in the depar- The typhoon struck the vessel Who le Commander Wong Lok? will probably continue on this

course towards Tourane. Outside the Unofficial members ture of the steamer conveying on the following day and broke He is In the country now. of the Legislative Council and the Carpi's Italian Opera Company to it up on the rocks near the island. Is there a magistrate called Luk Meteorological observations at 6 am to-day: barometer 29.85; tem- Sanitary Board there is surely Manila, the company will open at On the receipt of the report at Kwok-hung-Yes...

the Star Theatre, Kowloon for Stanley Police Station by the

And are you a soldier under Wong perature 73; humidity 76; wind work for citizens of the Colony three nights only, commencing on master of the grocery shop who Lok?-1 am not a soldier now. IENE, force 4 weather overcast. and citizens of the Empire-to Sunday afternoon, October 17.

attended to the needs of the aur gave it up during the fifth moon make their influence. felt; to stir! There will be a matinee on Sun-vivors a launch proceeded to the this year and returned to the village up the dry bones in a too apathe day afternoon when "Barbiere of island and brought them to Hong to do farming again.

Siviglia will be staged and in the Kong yesterday.

tic community; to arouse in them evening,

a sense of duty and of responsi “Madame Butterfly" will be pro- disaster. bility as residents of a British duced. Colony and of the great Empire or will be played and on Tues- Dr Monday “Lucia de Lammer-

to whom they owe allegiance. day the farewell performence will That, work, need not necessarily be "Aida"

ANTICS OF CHERVONETZ

Stout Wife (with, flat, aloft, to ahenpecked husband): You little, undersized, miserable worm! No wonder I met you at a garden fetel

You have made nothing but by special request, Eleven persons perished in the nuisance of yourself ever since You can investigate. I was soldier and a proper soldier too,

Why did you give-up your soldie- Ing-Because I couldn't make a

Seeing a little girl crying bitter- living for my family, fly in the street, a benevolent old Not oven by looting? (Witness man who was passings, ap. Tokyo, October 7-The Bank of did not reply)

proached her and inquired what Korea has suddenly announced the

Have you been going round the was the matter.

"I've lost a penny, sir." sobbed suspension of draft business at village and demanding money? Vladivostock until, further notice, Now

the child cwing to "great fuctuations in the Another complainant under The old gentleman promptly quotation of the chervonate in cross-examination denied that, he thrust, his hand into his pocket. Siberia, in spite of its stability, in had had trouble with the defen- and brought forth a penny, which

be confined to grumbling and The performances for the thres last nights at the Theatre Royal grousing and airing petty griev-re Boheme Rigolette and ances. There is ample room In "Carmen.” Hong Kong for the construction-

|ist as well as the destructionist,

Why leave the entire settling of The total output of Kailen Min- the European market. sants over ancestral funds and the he gave her local destinies to the limited banding Administration's mines for the It is noteworthy that the Bank suggestion that he lost his cargo The little girl dried her eyes. week ended September 25, amounted of Kores in the only foreign Bank and claimed that of the defendants and look at him in surprise. “Oh, of public men whose names figure to 61,290 tons, and the salsa during which the Soviet has permitted to

you wicked man, she said.” “So In every scheme for the better the period to 68,647 tons.

You had it all the time!!!

open a branch in Soviet territory his own bronchi wana

bind The case was adjourned,

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