WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1926.
SPORTS SECTION
ISAACS'S INNINGS.
COMMENT ON THE INTERPORT.
MATCH
Thus the "Shanghai Times of November 18:----
"SWEEP" TICKET.
CLUB COMMITTEE IN LITIGATION.
Penang, Oct. 27.' In the Supreme Court Mr. Justice Isaacs'a ingings in the interport Brown 'made an order on the appli- cricket match between Shanghaleation of twelve of thirteen defen- and Hong Kong will go down indants--the Committee of Manage the history of such contests as one ment of the Chinese Sporting Club of the most thrilling over witness-claiming indemnification against Judging from the short re- the thirteenth defendant against ed. count of the match received, the any liability (which they deny) crowd at the Hong Kong Cricket that may be attached to them in Club yesterday mast have been on respect of a cheque for the amount its toes during every ball bowled of a sweepstake prize, upon which in that last stand between launce the holder of the cheque, Mrs. Ewo and Barnes, when each ball mightKeat-moh, widow of Mr. Ng Boo- end the match and yet each ball bee, decoused, is suing them. might win .. Barnes is an ac- Mr. Justice Brown found that the complished stonewaller if he sets second defendant was entrusted by
\ FRENCH ENVOY.
RELINQUISHES WASHINGTON
POST.
THE CHINA MAIL.
collaboration in the ratification of the Franco-American, agreement, but his period expired before rate Acution, therefore he must ask for his diplomitic mission to be con- sidered terminated-Reuter. sidered
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ENEMY PROPERTY.
AMERICANS CLAIMS TO BE PAID.
1904 CRIME.
EVADED ARREST FOR TWENTY,
YEARS.
“DANGEROUS.”
NO RIFLES FOR MISSIONARIES IN HONAN.
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Honan missionaries will have to fight bandits with their bare fists judging by the refusal of the Ministry of War to allow them to have guns.
'It appears that about twenty American missionaries in Honan. the most bandit-stricken province in China, Issued a telegram to the United States Legation asking: that permission be obtained from the Chinese Government granting missionaries the right to rifles to protect themselves against brigands.
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HONGHONG NOVEMBER 24, 1926, 16.30_n.JTÉ.
Paris. Nev.. 23, At the Colombo Asses, before The French Government hae Mr. B. W. Jayewardene, K.C., and offered to renew M. Berenger's and English-speaking jury, on Octo, basandorship to Washington, but ber, 22, an old man of 77 years M. Berenger has written to M. numed. N. P. John Singh alina Briand declining, saying he has ro. Thatta Baas, who had evaded arrest mained at the disposal of the for over twenty years, was indicted Government beyond his term. for with the murder of a toddy tapper named Bampy Appu. by striking him with a club at Walana, nent Panadura, on October 19, 1004.
Mr. Grenier, detaliing the facts said that the case was an extra
TT on Shanghai ordinary one. inasmuch as the
Banks alleged murder had been committed
Hongkong Bank so long ago as October, 1904, The
do. The Legation referred the mat- renson for the unusually long deter to the Ministry of Foreign
Chartered Bank lay was the fact that the accused Affairs, which in turn submitted Mercantile Bank, A. & B. £20 a Abreondied and could not be arrest the communication to the Minis-
do. ed, although he was proclaimed and
try of Wag. The officials of the P. & O. Bank his properties were sold. The case last named organ pendered the Rank of East Asia" for the prosecution was supported question, gravely shook their wise Marine Insurances. feature of the case was that out it would be dangerous-very North China Insurance.. by two witne9988. "A curious
heads, and finally announced that China Underwriters......
Canton Insurance .... of six original witnesses only two. were available, two having died and dangerous in factto allow for
Union Insurance ... a third was bedridden and sind eigners to purchase arms during According to the two witnesses, the the present time when condi-Yangtze Insurance
Fire Insurances. accused had an altercation with tions are so unsettled.". Further China Fire Insurance the decopied for refusing to give more the officials stated that the .. Fire Insurance
When the de- missionaries request was un- him some toddy..
Shipping. ceased was walking away, the reasonable, and there the matter
ended..
Douglases accused struck him on the hend
The above report is translated. Tugs & Lighters..
Hongkong Steamboats. with a club.
from the "Peking Jih Pao," which Indo-Chinas (Pref) claims to be the oldest Chinese
do. (Def.) paper in Peking.
Shell Transports Star Ferries... Water-boats...
Berlin, Nov. 7.
of the United States Congress. Nicholas Longworth, chairman
made a statement to the press to the effect, that the first business of Congress when it reassembles in December next will be legisla- perty of former enemies confis-
cated during the war.
It is expected, he declared, that such property will be given back to its former owners and that the claims of Americans which were passed by the mixed claims com- mission would also be paid out in the near future.-A.N.A.
la mind to it. Hi gure eye en-the committee with certain powers,tion on the question of the pro- ables him to get his bat in the was namely, the payment of three che- »of every ball that comes along, and ques, and was allegəd to have we can imagine him there sitting abused those powers, disposing of on his aplilee unenterprising, unsone cheque in a manner in which tempted, yet keeping his end up in he had no authority to do so, there an invaluable manner, while Nance by making possible a claim against, gifted with little science with the the committee. willow, hits out at averything.
He thought that there was a ques- One can imagine the desperation of tion proper to be tried as to the the Hong Kong bowlers as they saw second defendant's Hability to in- the runs being knocked off by, these Idemnity, the other defendants, and two as men-the men who were from the point of view least expected to be troublesome.venience it was Certainly better in And, when Isaacs swept that ball this case that the whole matter be away over the tapes for the win-dealt with in one" proceeding.- ning run, one can imagine the Straits Times."
cheers: which burst forth. Cricketers are as a rule an unemo- Sonal class, and to have the team storm the pitch and carry of the hero. Teaqua, shoulder high, is a testimony to the excitement" which prevailed: ..Hong Kohx won the last interport match played
FANLING GOLF:
of
con-
The Royal Hong Kong Go Club bogey poolas Fanting last week-end was won by H. U. Ireland with score of down. Twelve cards were taken out.
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The defence was that the accused had been staying for the last 25 years in Kandy.
The jury found the accused spilty of having caused grievous hurt.
His Lordship, addressing the accused, said: "There is no doubt that you struck that man. This must, have been hanging over your head for twenty long years. That
punishment. I order you to enter into a bond of Rs. 600 to be of good behaviour for two years."
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At the Japanese Consular Court,
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At the conclusion of the trial. Ural Caspians Tronoh Mines prosecutor told the Court that: although by accident the Chinese) farmer had become blind in one ere, for life, for that u ne not
Affairs Committee of the Reichstag has concluded its debate on the re- vision of the measures for the relief of unemployment The Social Democrats moved an exten- sion of the present measures until WEDDED AMERICAN. continued from November 2.
the end of March next. Minister of Labour Dr. "Brauns stated that the number of the unemployed had decreased by 600,000 since the spring of this year, and that the
steady decrease of unemployment
was likely to continue..
RUSSIAN WOMAN ASKS
ANNULMENT.
The Y.M.CA. team to meet the Hong Kong Hockey Club at King's Park to-morrow has been chosen By 2 goals to nil, Hong Kong as follows:-W. Borrowman, Hockey Club defeated the 2nd Wheeler, E. P. Murphy, J. Gard: Eatt.. 'King's Own Scottish Bor-
The Prussian Government's in ner, A. A. Dand A. Rushton, G. B. derers at Kowloon yesterday, in an come from taxation having largely Slipper, W. Greenhalgh, J. Petrie, interesting hockey match, the sol-exceeded the estimates, the Govern-fore Judge Milton D. Purdy, In the EW. Railton and P. L. P.diers having won last Friday by ment has requested the authorities Thomas.
13-nil
to make the utmost use of their powers of leniency in consideration of the widespread distress caused by the too heavy tuxation through out the country.
NEW CHINA.
WHAT CAN BE DONE TO
HELP HER? ·
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A DUTCH ARTIST.
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THE BEAUTY OF THE EAST INDIES.
The rumour that Germany is coa templating culling an International financial Congress for the execution of the programme discussed by Foreign Ministers Briand and Stresemann at their recent meeting at Thoiry is semi-officially refuted at Berlin.-A.NA.
The East Indies have a romantic 6. Col
L'Estrange Malone. FR.AC.S.. who recently returned atmosphere of their own, but only from a tour of investigation in a few Duteh artists have tried to China, during which he lived with exploit it. One of them is Mr. Jan the Chinese, in Chinese fashion, Poortenaar, and he is exhibiting
New York, November 23-Mr. and visited All the important his water-colours and etchings at centres from Harbin to Canton, has the Little Art Rooma, London, John D. Rockefeller. Junior, hày large etchings, such as presented $60,000 to the tenth an- set out his findings in an 1.L.P. His
"Market Scene, Javi," and "Malay niversary campaign fund of the publication entitled, "New China.!!
to support Jewish Part 1 deals in a well-written Houses, Sumatra." are excellent Federation and interesting eight chapters with technically, and contain such dehilanthropic Societies, which is Colonel curative material as the tortuous, reported to be the largest contribu. the political situation.
waving tion. ever made by a Gentile to n Malons, after describing the vast-moss-draped growth of ness of China, gives his views on trees, which gives the impression.Jewish philanthropic organisation. the numerous "Governments" there, that, in the time at his disposal, Reuter's American Service.. among which he includes the Mr. Poortenaar was too much of occupied with the interesting facts Diplomatic Corps, as a force influence. He favours the party at to give much heed to arrangement. Canton-the. Kuomintang-as the The smaller studies are delightful hope of China, and the only party-particularly the series of etchings with a definite and detailed proof actors and actresses engaged in gramme. Among other matters re- the elaborate "hand ritual of the viewed by Colonel Malone is the Java and Bali theatre, the etchinge landscape subjects-carved question, "What can be done to of their interests. Answering the boats, gateways and curious trees ''question. "What can be done to-and such slight water-colours na, "On the River, help China out of the welter and "Fruitseiler," chaos into which she has fallen?" Sumatra," the two "Demons," and he, says it is surely time to take Bati Dancer."
what appears to be the best couro
in the present situation, and end
the "humbug of Peking." the sup-
port of a shadow Government un. der the pretence that it is the central authority in China, and recognise for the time being the da fucto partition of China, giving" (10 | each Government its appropriate! share of the, surplus of the Customs Revenue. Britain he holds, should' take the lead rather than invariably follow up in the rear in revision" of policy and cutlook, and the first step he advocates is the withdrawal of British troops from Chinese soil and British gunboats from. Chinese territorial waters, except when they are permitted to be there. Great Britain must also accept the fact that the time has come for the re vision of her treatles..
Extra- territoriality undoubtedly must go. New China" is published by the Independent, Labour Party Publica tion Department, and can be obtain od through the Chinese Information Bureau, 65, Belgrave-road, London, SW1. The price is 8d., or by post Rd.
The fashionable young man ap proached his prospective father-in-
luv..
"1 say," he said, "your daughter has just promised to marry me. But one has to be careful these days, I'd like to know, just to be sure, is there any insanity in your family Tops
The old man regarded the young fellow for a few minutes: ""There „must be he replied.
"
Mrs. Olga Lange Wohlman, a Russian who had married a soldier with the American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia on January 25, 1920 at Vladivostock, appeared be-
U.S. Court for China, Shanghai, on November 12, seeking an annulment of the marriage on grounds that it was illegal under the laws of the U.S.S.R. Government which do not permit a Russian to marry a non-Christian. Wohlman, who was not present at the proceedings but by U.S. District represented Attorney Husar, is,a Jew.
Me. Luchich, attorney for the
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SYMBOL A MYSTERY.
and bizarre manner.
Hongkong Kealty HE. Territorie! Humphreys Estates Prince's Building Rural. Lands
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The sickle and hatimer, symbol Ewo Cottons of the Soviet Government, has been Orientals emulated by midical Kuomintang Shanghai Cottons (old)
"(new) petitioner, told the Court that the Froups in Shanghai, but in a strange
Miscellaneous. marriage was illegal in the Ameri
At a meeting of unemployed Canton Ices... can sense also as the defendant had workers from Japanese cotton mills Cements (comb.) not secured a licence or permission
on November 11, it was announced,
(old) from his Army superiors. He said that the Kuomintang section re- do. (new) that after the marriage the two sponsible for the local agitation China Lights (comb.) went to Manila and lived as man
against Marshal Sun Chuan-fang and wife there for a month and a
(old) have adopted the symbol of a small half when Wohlman, taking ad-
brass plate and a tin whistle. Ten vantage of his wife's ignorance of thousand of those tokens are report English, induced her to signed to have been prepared for dis- an agreement of separation. He tribution to members of the section threatened to strand her in Manila if she didn't sign, but advanced her passage to Shanghai when she did and she never saw him since.
Mr. Luckich offered to quota Rus- sian law to support the grounds in the petition but his Honour ordered brief to be filed and took the matter under advisement.
Managua, November 23.-Three American destroyers have arrived off Bluefields and are patrolling the east coast, which with the excep- to Bluefields and El Bluff, fion, which form a neutral zone, is now
the Liberal in controlled by
urgents, who up in arma
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