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REGULAR "FENCE."

ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF HERDS.

CHINESE CONVICTED,

WORLD RUBBER.

Shortage Within Three Years.

MANUFACTURER'S VIEWS.

New York, Yesterday.

A Chinese detective yesterday found a Chinese in Queen's Road West carrying a large grass bag

A world shortage of rubber on his back. The bag contained within the next three years is fore-

one regard, they are in the same boat. Both have been asked to accept a réduction of ten per cent. in their salary. The mate, to- gether with his deck and engineer comrades, as we know, has re- fused, and is now on strike as-a protest against the Company's declared intention to enforce the cut. Not so, however, our film favourites. Almost willingly, it Chinese medicine. As the man

cant by Mr. William O'Neill, Pre- seems, have they agreed to the was unable to explain satisfac-sident of the General Tyre and receipt of a less bulky pay en- torily as to how he came to be in Rubber Company who is leaving was for Britain to study the crude rub- velope. Why they have done so possession of the herbs, he will be evident from the following taken to No. 7 Police Station. ber situation.

An increase in demand of 15 per facts. As much as £500,000,000 When they arrived at the stationi is invested in the production, dis- the prisoner's wife and mother tent. above the 1926 consumption has convinced all manufactureis of tribution and exhibition of mov- were waiting for him there. Ac- the coming shortage. The only ing pictures in the United States. cused was alleged to have said to doubt is when the shortage is like- In recent years production costs his wife: "Go home and removely to occur. It is stated that mea- have risen and the film market those things at once." This led sures to increase production will has become saturated. There is, the police to be suspicious and not be effective until eight years ut present, no room for further the detective made the accused hence-Reuter's American Service.

Edison Experiments. expansion, because both in take him to his home. There a

Washington, July 27, America and abroad the supply of large quantity of herbs was Mr. Thomas A. Edison called at American cinemu productions found.

the Departments of Commerce und. more than meets the demand. The accused, who claimed that Agriculture and enlisted official as-" Moreover, the net profit on that he was a travelling trader, said slatanen for his experimenta in £,00,000,000 invested is not more that he had bought the medicine growing rubber in Florida and Cali- than two per cent, These points, from various Chinese medicine fornin conferred with Mr. E. G. Holl, all capable of proof, have been put shops to take to Canton. En-chief of the rubber division of the by the film organisations before quiries were made at these shops, Department of Commerce and in- their employees, from stars to and they all denied knowledge of formed him that preliminary tests carpenters, and it has been added the accused with the exception of had proved beyond question that that the only alternative is to re- one shop, where the police were certain sections of the United duce expenses. That is why the informed the accused had bought States possess the soil and climate actors and actresses and others two catties of medicine about required for the successful cultiva- engaged in the industry have four months ago. In a subse-tion of rubber trees.,

The Inventor has already enlisted agreed to a reduction in salary,quent statement made to the the support of leading rubber mang- They have the full facts in front police when he was charged with facturers including Firestone. If of them and have taken the com- unlawful possession, the accused the government gives its active as- monsense view that a reduction said that he had bought the major sistance, certata large tracts of lis inevitable if the film trade is to part of the herbs found in his and may be turned over to Mr. remain. Moreover, the directors possession from small boys and Edison for further experiments. and other departmental heads of

"United Press." the big concerns have led the way. When the accused was charged Mr. Adolph Zukor, president of before Mr. R, E. Lindsell at the the Paramount Company, we are Central Magistracy this morning, told, has agreed to lower his an- he tried to go back on his pre- tions of the Maritime Customs nual remuneration, and so has

vious statement by saying that he for the enforcement of illegal Mr. Jesse Lasky, another Ameri- had bought a small portion of his can cinema magnate. By such a

New York. July 28. taxes upon the import and export course of action have the leaders lock from the small boys and

Herman Bernstein's $200,000 tracie so long as it enjoys the pro- in the industry taken the "kick" coalies, and that these represent-

libel suit against Henry Ford and tection of the Treaty Powers. out of any complaints of hardshiped sweepings from ships,

The Magistrate convicted, and the Dearborn. Publishing company, It is no secret that the Nanking which might have arisen from the in finding the accused $50 or four owned by Ford, ended officially to-

ranks of the, employees had not a Government is imposing these frank statement of the industry's weeks' jail, said that he had no day with the filing of a notice of doubt that accused was a regular discontinuance in the Federal illegal taxes with the sole object position been put before them.

"fence."

The amount of the money seitle ment made out of court was not named. In his letter of retraction to Bernstein apologiaing for his anti-Jewish attacks, Henry Ford agreed to reimburse Bernstein for expenses incurred incident to the suit, which was filed August 19, 1923.

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BIRTH.

MANLEY-On July 27, 1927, at the, Victoria Naraing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Manley, a son.

MARRIAGES.

WORLOCK-TURNER-On July

CHINESE BATHING CLUB.

coolies.

TRAFFIC SIGNALS.

DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO INDIANS.

of continuing the civil war against the North. The precedent is a CORRESPONDENCE. dangerous one. It is futile to make a mere protest. The exam- ple is bound to be followed by

To the Editor of the "Chinn Mail."I every other unrecognised faction-

The Indian driver of motor car al Government throughout the Sir, I have been a member of country, both now and in the the above Club for several years. No. 575, owned by Mrs. Matheson, So far as my knowledge goes was this morning summoned be- future. Thus will Treaties go into there have been по general fore Major Willson for disobeying

or otherwise. traffic signals on July 20, the melting pot, the foreign meetings, annual

An Indian traffic constable said

HENRY FORD..

APOLOGISES FOR ANTI-JEWISH ATTACKS.

Court.

a

s Bernstein Associated Press."

playwright.-

LADY LAUDER.

FAMOUS COMEDIAN'S WIFE PASSES AWAY.

Rugby, Yesterday. Lady Lauder, wife of the come-

U.S. ABROAD.

TRADE COMMISSIONER IN

Powers be treated with contume-There have been no elections of ly, and the whole fabric of foreign office-bearers, annual or ether he was on duty at the junction of wise, There have been no Stubbs and Morrison Hill Roads trade shattered beyond repair. publication, adoption, and pass-at 4.30 p.m., on July 20 when the The Powers, in the interests of ing of accounts and reports, defendant who was going in an their nationals, and in the inter- annual or otherwise. From these, easterly direction in Morrison dian, Sir Harry Lauder, died yes

I am led to doubt that the Club Hill Road, signalled his intention terday.-British Wireless Service. ests of China itself, may regret is not run on constitutional lines.to turn into Stubbs Road. As the continuance of the civil wars I understand that if there were there was a car coming down; that are now raging, but they are no general meetings, then the Stubbs Road at the time the wit-

affairs of the Club must be en-ness turned his signal against thej powerless to mediate or intervene. tirely and absolutely in the hands defendant, but the latter came on They are bound to observe a policy of the few "autocrats." If there in spite of this. When the wit- of strict neutrality.

NEW ZEALAND. But that were no elections of officers, ness called out to the defendant in then these officers must be Hindustani "Look at the light," should not imply that they are hereditary or else self-elected. If the latter replied, "It was in fa-

Wellington, yesterday. content to do nothing more than there were no accounts and re-vour of me." The gentleman who The first United States trade 26. 1927, at H.B.M. Consulate, protest when this, that, and the ports published, adopted, passed, was in the other car (No. 1705). commissioner to New Zealand has and Holy Trinity Cathedral, other faction struggling for then the financial affairs must be telephoned to No. 2 Police Station arrived.-Reuter. Shanghai, Mary Turner of Shanghai, to Sergeant Stanley supremacy usurp the functions of solely conducted by the so-called and made a report against the

RAIN, THEN FINE. Committee without the knowledge defendant, and at the same time) Warlock of Karachi, India. the Treaty-protected Maritime and approval of all the members. told the witness to summons Film. ROBINSON WEAVER-On July Customs to enforce payment of If a club is managed thus, then The defendant said that the "South west or variable winds,

28, 1927, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, Jessie illegal taxes. As the "North beyond any possible shadow of light was in his favour when he moderate to light; overcast, with doubt it is nothing but a private turned into Stubbs Road. It was rain at first, fine later" is the Maud, youngest daughter of China Daily News" very properly enterprise. Such being the case. afterwards turned against him, official weather forecast until

points out, the policy of the it will be far more appropriate and he then stopped immediately. noon to-morrow. Powers has, so far, been very dis-

name it as "Mr. So-and-so and The case was adjourned until couraging. It has held out

Coy's Private Beach," than the 11.30 on Tuesday next. name as it at present stands. hope of a removal of the dis- Should my doubts prove abilities under which trade is groundless I would be much now struggling for existence. It obliged if the interested in gen- eral and the Committee in is causing many to turn to the particular would have the good- contemplation of dangerous ex-ness to enlighten on the pedients with a view to saving subject. something from the wreck which the policy of indecision fore- shadows. These expedients range from compromise to a complete re- nunciation of those charters under which trade and industry.

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Robin-

son, Burgess Hill, Sussex, to Frederick William. youngest son of the late Edwin James Weaver

Weaver, and Mrs. Frome, Somerset.

DEATH.

REYNELL-On July 23, 1927, at Suma, near Kobe, Japan, in his 81at

Haroki Essex year, Reynell.

Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 2, 1927.

NANKING'S TAXES.

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me

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"CONCERNED."

Hong Kong, August 1.

SHORTS.

CIGARETTE "RUNNERS.”

A feeble anticyclone is central between the Bonins and Tokyo. The depression over N.E. China has filled up. That over. S.W. China is unchanged.

There are indications of typhoon to tha east of the Bashi Two Chinese were this morning Channel. Its direction of motion sentenced by Major Willson to is uncertain. three months' jail each for the un-

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lawful possession of 5,000 duti A: sub-contractor to Sang Lee's' Jable cigarettes. They were ar-has reported to the police that

rested on the Praya yesterday, yesterday he entrusted to The cigarettes were concealed in foreman $800 to pay some work some reams of brown paper which men. The foreman is said to the accused were carrying. The have absconded with the money. accused's "dodge” was an ingenu-

hidden.

ous one, as the centre of the paper Early yesterday morning a What is well described as an have been built up and protected (To the Editor of the "Chins Mail"

Sir, I most thoroughly en- with the exception of a few sheets thief entered the third floor of "orgy of taxation" is strongly de-in China.

dorse what you said in your on the top and bottom, had been No. 9, Waiching Street occupied nounced by the "North China There is little wonder that the editorial article of July 29 about cut away, forming a compart- by Mrs. Ermina Benarba and "shorts and snobs." It is timement in which the cigarettes were stole jewellery and clothing worth Daily News," which appeals to the General Chamber of Commerce in

$313. He entered the flat by we had some plain speaking on Powers to take united action Hong Kong expresses the view this subject, though from my own

forcing open the staircase door." before it is too late. It states that it cannot find a remedy for observations all the short-less

A shopkeeper of No. 276, Des that when the Maritime Customs the prevailing unsatisfactory ones are not snobs while some of SPEEDING ON THE PRAYA.

Voux Road West reported to the is used as an instrument to en-trade conditions until there is a

thuse who wear them are dis-

Sub-Inspector Mason summon-police that he entrusted 40 crates tinctly snobs. Just to show the force the collection of surtaxes on "settled China." And that there popularity of this form of nethered the driver of public motor car of chickens to a travelling trader imports and exports, increased can never be so long as any fac-wear, and also how sensible they No. 428 for speeding on the on July 28 to deliver to some

would call your attention to

tonnage dues, and other super- tional Government, unrecognised are under certain conditions, I Praya at 8 p.m., on July 21.

The defendant pleaded "guilty." since received information that

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customers in Macao. He has

taxes we are entitled to enquire by the Powers, is permitted paragraph I have just seen in a

The Inspector said that he fol- the fowl were not delivered, and what steps that Treaty Powera illegally to tax foreign trade out Home newspaper which tells of a lowed the defendant from the Star the travelling trader cannot now are taking to stop these fiscal im- of existence with the sole object real, live Bishop who wears Ferry wharf to Wanchal, and the be found. The chickens were positions and prevent a recur- of. raising funds wherewith to shorts. This is the Rt. Rev. R. G. latter travelled all that way at 30 worth $470. rence of such encroachmentą upon continue the civil war.

the right of immunity from

Chinese taxation other than that

sanctioned by Treaty. It will find How To Avoid Trouble. foreign sentiment unanimous in

A fine of $20 was imposed.

Shedden, Bishop of Nassau, in the miles per hour. Bahamas, who is now in London to preside over the Anglo-Catholic Conference. This worthy cleric, we are told, spends most of his

WILL RELIEVE MOTHER'S FEARS. A panic of fear seizas mother when

Not in many directions would working days in shorts, & shirt/does this Bishop want when out sudden and severe cramps, agonizing

its view that it was never intend one eay there were points in com- his parishoners involving a lot of and without shoes and stockings, ed that any unrecognised faction- mon between an American cinema sailing.

al Government should be allowed star and, a hard-bitten C.N.C. This sounds good to me. No to usurp, with impunity, the func- mate on the China coast. Yet, in apron and gaiters and funny hat

calling. Just shorts and a shirt. intestinal pains and weakening diar gentleman is a real man's man.

Imagine that this reverend rhoen prostrate some one of the

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