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Every evening except Sunday. Arinos subscription ofcluding pastuce abroad F.K. $38. payable, Fin advanos. Local delivery free).

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All communications should be addressed to the Newspaper Enter- prise; Ltd., to whom all remittances should be made payable.

buy any one of many handsome models right now by our partiti payment plan.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1926.

STORY OF A BRIBE.

CHARGE AGAINST INDIAN WARDER.

COLONY'S MONEY.

1.

(Continued from' page 1.

tional people who are attracted by the advertisements, The church, like the distributor of a commodity, seeks to get people to do a thing which it, is to their ad- vantage to do... The church has the same task of selecting from

a general all round increase in the the public as a whole those indivi-

price of provisions, etc. This duals who are responsive to

amounted to 23 per cent. In fact appeal, attracting their atten-

The usual crowd of Chinese the contract for the first six months of this it was decided only to give tien, awakening their interest locking-on was absent from Mr.bf the your in the hope that prices. stimplating their desire and mov-R, E, Lindsell's Court at the Cen-after this period would have fallen, ing their wills. That churches

MAGISTRATE DOUBTFUL.

The supplementary vote of $6,500" takan in August was entirely for the Peik Hospital and had nothing to do with the general hospitals.

ars destined to turn to advertis-tral Magistracy this morning, its this however was not the case and g is as cortain as the fact that place being taken by a multi-the Government was obliged to re- they have something which many coloured be surbanded audience of new the contract fill the end of the people would want. The churches Sikh wurders,

year. watchmen and are exactly where thousands of other Indians. manufacturers and retailers. would be to-day without. advertis- ing. They occupy big plants with heavy overhead expenses but with small output. The most expen- sive thing about a church is an empty seat, for it costs no more to prepare a servics for a houseful than for a handful

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FERRY CRUSH.'

PLANS FOR GREATER

COMFORT...

ALTERATIONS BEGUN.

The attraction turned cut to be a charge against an Indian warder serving at Victoria Jail.

Mr. J. W. Franks, superintendent of Prisons, prosecuted and Mr. McCallum defended the accused!

Hong Kong at Wembley. ion, $16,500 is asked for.. The Under British Empire Exhibi- Cexplanation given is:-

who, It is alleged, attempted to bribe a European officer when charged with a breach of the pri

The estimated expenditure for the Wembley Exhibition, 1925, Was £25,000 sterling on Expense Account and in addition an ad- vance of $100,000 (repayable)

son regulations.

Mr. Franks informed the Court was made on Trading Account. that the defendant had been 15-0 has been drawn to date by On Expense Account 322,968- charged before him with giving a the Exhibition Treasurers, and prisoner in the printing shop cer- $6,107.68 has further been dis- tain envelopes to print on what bursed by the Colonial Govern- Was apparently Government Plans are in hand for iterations paper. A second charge had been ment. The full $100,000 Trading at the ferry which it is hoped will framed on a statement made by $80,000 only has been repaid to Account was advanced, and prevent do a great extent the im- the defendant. to Warder Collins, date. It is anticipated that a fur- peding of outward and inward namely that it would cost him, ther $10,000 will be recovered: traffic. Entrance and exit points if reported and that it would be To close all outstanding accounts ars to be clearly defined by bar-better if Warder Collins took the including the settlement of the rlers and immediate access to the money instead He, Mr. Franks, balance of the Trading Account gangway when, embarking, will be had regarded the matter as being made by a gate at a point much too serious to deal with himself, nearer to the sedward end of the hence it had been brought into The unexpended balance of the

FOLLY.

EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY,

Shanghai, Dec, 21.

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a final sum of $16,500 is required.

vote of $25,000: namely $17,024 * having lapsed in 1925 the sum now asked for is in the nature of a ra-vote.

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Of this $10,000, $14,201.64 had. been spent up to Nov. 30. For December, another $1,000 is need- ed, leaving a balance of $698.86.

Evidence. William M. Robertson, Assist. ant Chief Warder at Victoria Jail said that the defendant had beenal reported to him by Warder Collins.

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wharf than at present. Those dis-Court. lembarking will land in a similar For Whose Benefit?

manner to that provided for under Mr. McCallim said that he the existing system.

thought that the Ordinance pre- The ticket office will be on the supposed that it must be for the

"Sunning" Expenses. cuss and negotiate. China's own right hand side of the "fairway" benefit of the prisoner.

The "Sunning" piracy has also This resulted in a vote being asked for. weakpess in this important regers are asked to keep to the right son discipline, but he did not secret service, $1,000 is asked for and incoming and outgoing passen might be a case of breach of pri- Under the heading of Police, spect cannot be misconstrued as & between barriers.

think that it came within the "further anticipated, expendi- flaw in British policy.

Whereas, previously, passengers spirit of the regulations.

ture." The British document is declustered at the gate closely adjoin-

His Worship: I see.. Your ing the present ticket office, the point is,

In the Estimates. $8,000 was scribed in London as "a general urge will now be towards the end illegal must be for the benefit of July 22 a further $8,000 was voted that actions declared allotted for secret service. On exposition of the British attitude of the wharf and reconstruction is the prisoners?

owing to expenditure being heavi toward Chin rather than a con- now in hand for an extension of the Mr. McCallum said that he felter than was anticipated due to crete scheme for a comprehensive tien for waiting passengers,

wharf by 30 feet to allow protec-that this was a case which should exceptional circumstances.

be dealt with by the prison auth. settlement." Here is confirma-

oritles themselves. tlon not of any

"new" British ORDERS DISOBEYED.

Mr. Lindsell said that he would policy but of a reiteration of

hear evidence. "alt" British policy plus a quest

LIENSHING PASSENGERS'

for a lever wherewith to raise some of the main planks of that policy to the sphere of practicality without any undue loss of time.

"It was owing to their dis- Far from any desire to meddle obedience of instructions that with or intervene in China's passengers lost their lives," de- domestic affairs, Great Britain is Naval enquiry into the loss of clared Captain Simpson, at the animated only by a desire to help the s.s. "Lienshing," held at the China to help herself in accord- British Court this morning." ance with the provisions of the had made 68 trips between Tien- Capt. Simpson stated that he Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1935. Washington Agreement. In ex-tsin and Shanghai without have

ploring the possibilities of ac-ing had an accident.

He left the bridge at 215 on Britain reveals herself once more went below. "On returning at 31 Mr. McCallum: 'Does it not

true friend of China-ina.m. he found the course had been strike you that your interprets guested to meet "uniform, Includ- thorough keeping with her recog-

altered. at 8:50, but there was not any fish? According to you, he speaks is down at $3,546, He went to get bearings tion of his English is your Eng-ing boots. nition of Chinese aspirations and time for this, as the vessel struck English as well

Cost of Police Regulation Books the rocks 3 to 4 minutes after the don't vary even the grammar are the following: P.W.D., Kow as you, You In constructional works, there second mate had reported rocks Nevertheless that is what he said. loon distributing mains, improve on the port Bow.

Witness, in answer to further The second officer, Mr. J. W. questions, agreed that defendantments and extensions $3,000; Port Macabe, stated to the Court that, apcke English as well as the aver

works, further reclamation contrary to the Captain's stand-age Indian warder.

Shamsuipo $7,500. the latter of the vessel's changed ing order, he had not informed course!

The hearing was adjourned Reuter.

London Offices-The Far Eastern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd, 80-88, Southampton Street, | Strand, W.C.2.

DEATH.

VIVIAN-On December 16, 1926, at Sea, James Vivian, Shanghai Gas Company, aged 47 years.

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A "NEW" POLICY.

The "Sunning piracy will cause expenses amounting to about $1,700 so that the addition- $1,000 is now being asked for.

Some Other Items. Under, Personal Emoluments His Worship: This is not evidare the following:--Attorney- ence. Call Warder Collins.

General's Department $540, office Warder Collins said that he of Crown Solicitor and Land Re shop when he saw a Chinese pri new stations and additional rent- was on duty in the jail printing 8istry $870. soner handling some envelopes ed quarters and partly to the in- Partly due to the opening of. He got hold of the prisonery stalation of a battery charger, proached him and asked him not for the wireless set at the Water" whereupon the defendant to report the matter. Defendant Police station, Kowloon, $8,300 is

needed for the Police Force, un-.. said to witness: "If you report! me, I shall get fined $5.

der "other charges, lights and clectric fans."

For the Volunteers, $700 is re-

celerating a reform scheme Great the morning of December 12, and better you take it,"

as a

Ideals..

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Per-

"PANAMA CANAL.

PENDING UNITED STATES TREATY.

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More

Franks said that the defendant!

In reply to the, Magistrate, Mr.

held the "1st English" certificate. Re-called. Assistant Chief Warder Robertson said that de fendant spoke English well,

Mr. McCallum: In all fairness to the man, do you say that his English is so proficient that he could speak as well as Warder Collins?I don't say that he is proficient. I am prepared to ad- mit that.

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WUCHOW'S STRIKĖ.

HONG KONG SHIPS STILL GOING.

THE RIVAL PARTIES.

at

It is not to be wondered at that Church and Advertising. official circles in London are re-

We were interested to notice ticent regarding the British on the front page of a Shanghai memorandum handed to the for-contemporary a large displayed eign Ministers in Peking. Natur-advertisement in connection with ally all the Treaty Powers must the Bishop of London's visit to have an opportunity of consider the Northern Settlement. ing the document. fully. Until hapa that institution which stands their views thereon are, com- to gain most from a paper's news). municated to Great Britain it and publicity service is the Church. Among the more con- would be premature to discuss

In spite of ths. "general strike any single proposal either on theservative there is still some pre-

Washington, Dec. 21.

which began, last" week-end at assumption that it meets with judice against this form of pub- The text of the treaty pending

Wuchow (the West. River port) and licity. They feel that the display States is published: If the treaty admitted ordering the prisoner to on Monday, Hong Kong steamboats between Panama and the United Defendant, in the witness box, which is stated to have been settled the unqualified approval of advertising of a church' is un-is ratified Panama will be bound to print the envelopes, but denied are still going there with cargo and

dignified and inconsistent with co-operate to the utmost to protect having offered the church spirit. This belief and defend the Canal, and if a con- warder $5.

Yesterday the s.8. "Kwong Ying". probably comes largely from a fict breaks out to consider herself misconception of the real func- a joint enemy with the United not think the verbal offer of a Hong Kong for the usual ports but His Worship said that he did and "Kwong Fook Cheung" left tieing is merely giving through tion of Edvertising New adver- States-Reuter's American Service.bribe was sufficient for him to it is understood that they have in- the use of the printing press that

convict the man. He would like structions to wait at. Samahul for information and incidental com

to hear what Mr. Franks had to further news before going on to mendation which must be given in

San Antonio, Dec: 21.

say "with regard to the first Wuchow.

The necessity for caution is due charge. selves of a commodity or a ser-monstrating the

With the twofold object of de- order that people may avail them-

to the West River Seamen's Guild friendship

Mr.Franks said that he thought allegedly aiding with the Wuchow of vice. The substitution of printed North, South and

Central the regulation was framed to pre-city Party or the Kuomintang (with for spoken words is necessary America and awakening in-vent trafficking. It was most im-

Labour Unions are out the years; a policy founded on when large numbers of people are terest. in commercial aviation, probable that a prisoner would which the the spirit of the Washington) s.kind' appropriate for church an-command of Major Dargue have get a quid pro quo out of it,~ are the Wuchow district Party of

concerned or that it is bound to' be brought into operation.

As a matter of fact, whilst the memorandum has been widely hailed as Britain's "new" policy in China, an examination of the details that have leaked out serve to emphasise that it is merely an effort to galvanise Britain's old policy a policy that has been built up and consolidated through

22,000 MILE FLIGHT:

the European passagers.

to be addressed. Advertising of five Army aeroplanes under the take the risk unless he was to pathetic). On the other side

the Kuomintang, peasants, students, military and police,

The Effect on Shipping.. Armed police pickets are on duty uneasiness prevails. in the city and an under-current of

was not easy to detect a case against a prison officer and the authorities wanted to make, an example of it. That was why, in spits of certain disciplinary pow ers invested in him as superin- tendent, he had brought the mat-

The district Party and their allies demand the deportation from ter into Court. Aga kla

He Worship said that he would Wuchow of three prominent mem like to consider the matter.

Hebers of the city Party and the would give his decision on Friday Labour Unions threaten a general

Ball was allowed as before.

Agreement; a policy at once har-nouncements is more dgnified left on a 22,000-mile flight around monious to the sentiments of the than some of the methods resort- South America-Renter's American Chinese themselves. That oppor and the fact that advertising is

ed to by non-advertising churches, Service. tunities have been lacking hither- now being introduced by the na MADEIRA ESCAPES: to to give full effect to anch tional bodies in Europe and policy surely cannot be laid to the America of some of the leading

Funchal, Dec. 21, door of Great Britain. That both that this prejudice will soon passed Madeira Reuter

denominations probably ensures The earthquake has not affect the Extraterritoriality Confer- sway. By no other method can A cable datad September 18: ence and the Tariff Conference the church carry ita message to so stated: A great arthquake proved more or less a diplomatic attract new attendants and re- was experienced to-day in Lisbon large a number of people. It can shock of three seconds duration

at 2.15.

"wash out" cannot be blamed tain the interest of present ones. and Madeira. Considerable solely on Great Britain. Any Moreover, we think we are right damage was done in Lisbon, policy of any of the Treaty in saying that experience has There was much alarm but no shown that the advertising outlay canalties. There is no news as Powers premised a strong Central is often more than made up by to the effects of the earthquake: Government with whom to dis the plate contributions of addiin Madeira.]

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR

ringing nie of the dollar, demand, to-day was 1/11 8/18.

strike again.

Accordingly, it is falt that the arrival of Hong Kong steamers at Wuchow daring a crisis would be inopportune owing to the possibility of crews having to leave in sym- |pathy "with" the general, movement and the boats then being tied up Indefnitely at Wuchow.