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SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1928.

WATCHMEN'S BILL.

PETITION AGAINST COMPUL- SORY MEASURES.

COUNCIL AMENDMENTS PASSED.

C.P.O. CHARGED.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER

CABE.

FURTHER EVIDENCE.

On Thursday afternoon, Mr.) mov-

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It WAR difficult to see why a man should be a worse watchman hecause he had sufficient money to put him be- yond temptation.

Private Watchman.

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REINCARNATION.

THE TRUTH: THERE IS NO DEATH.

MR. RUSSELL'S ADDRESS.

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THE CHINA MAIL,

LATE LAW CLERK,

MR. A. B. SUFIAD LAID TO REST.

FUNERAL LARGELY ATTENDED.

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KWANGTUNG REDS.

TEASANTS AND FARMERS TAKE A HAND.

SERIOUS THREAT.

not yet been · announced.

Tax Exemption.

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It in reported that organised bodies

the taxes to be collected in_their_dls- tricts for a period of three years, as Mr.a means of lessening their burden, and

riets to normal condition. of enabling them to restore their dis-

There was a large attendance at Peasants and farm hands are At this week's public meeting of Two - amendments were ed in Committed at the Legia R. E. Lindsell heard further evid- The Hong Kong Lodge The Theoso the funeral on Thursday afternoon now taking a prominent part in Intive Council on Thursday, ence at the Central Magistracy in phies Society on Thursday, at at the Mahammedan Cemetery of Communist activities which to tho Ordinance providing the case in which Chief Petty Of-their Duddell-street Lodge, Mr. Mr. A. B. Suffed, retired Chief Jus-more than once threatened to

tica's Clerk.

submerge the province of Kwang- and re- registration for the

cer William George Kelsey of John Russell gave an address

Among the many present were tung and the government of Can- charged Reincarnation." "He gulation of watchmen. This fol-H.MS. "Ambrose"

By a coincidence, the two fol- lowed the laying on the table of a with the alleged manslaughter of a brief: With the knowledge of the Sir Henry Gollan, Mr. Eldon Potter, ton. Tetition on behalf of Indian watch Chinese whilst driving public great truths of life as propounded Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Mr. C. E, H. men in the name of Basant Singh, motor car No. 313 in Connaught by The Theosophical Society, death Deavia, Mr. D. H. Blake, Mr. M. K. lowing articles appear in columns Kahal Singh and Sapooran Singh. road Central in the small hours of losta ita ating and all its horrors, Lo, Mr. M. W Lo, Mr. Leo side by side in the "Canton

Peasant Conditions. The petition, dealing with the pro- the morning of March 28 last, and for one then reakses very définite d'Almada é Castro, Mr, F. E. Nash, Gazette:

For the purpose of initiating inres- hibitive clause in regard to money with two offences against locally that life is undying and continu. Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios, Mr.

oua, that birth as well as "death" C. A. S. Russ and a host of other tigation into the actual conditions of lending, said that with the excep-traffe regulations, tlon of Mohammedans who were- Pollee Sergeant Bucker corro concerns merely the outer body of people connected with the law the peasants and labourers in the various districts, the Department of Peasantry, and Labour propose, to ap- prohibited from usury, all Indians borated the car driver's evidence man, which is cast off like a garourts and with legal offices.

The chief mourners who were at point a number of inspectors or inves of the watchmen class invested their that he placed Kelsey and his comment while the true man, the in- savings by way of usury. It had panion Whitworth in car No. 313 dividual life in him, continues in the funeral were his son, Mr. A. G. igators for the different, districts. been their custom from time im at the stand outside the To Yuen bodles of finor, rarer matter. What Sulind, and his brother-in-law. This proposal-together with a draft divition of the inspectors, and the memorial and whatever view might restaurant at Shek-tong-tsut, and one calls, death, is merely the Messrs. A. S., A. R., A. H. and A. of rules to guide and govern the de- necessary financial requisition, has be taken of the morality or other-directed the driver to go to Ken-switching off of the life current Abbas.

The Indian community was large-been forwarded to the Provincial Gov- wise of money lending, it was the

This the witness did from the physical plane of exist! nedy-town.

represented, including the ernment for consideration. thrifty and those with money to at the Naval men's request. They ence to the wholly super-physically

The matter. wan tabled for diseas spend who helped to build up said they wanted to go to a place plane, the astro-mental state, but Young Men's Islamic Society of sien, at the 4ith meeting of the Pro- prosperous community.

near the cattle depot and wanted it is in no way the destruction of which the late Mr. Suffad was Previncini Govertimeat. The decision has When sident, The the life current itself. a car at a reasonable price.

Floral Tributes. two Naval nien, according to the death comes to our loved ones, we

Many wreaths were sent by his of various classes in the Hoffung and Sergeant, had had a few drinks, should realise the more advantage-

ous conditions of existence they non-Muslim friends, including one Lokfung districts have started a move- but were "quite sensible".

Wong Hoi-tung, the occupier of then' dwell in, and not give from Sir Henry Gollan, the Chief ment for requesting the Provincial The Petition submits that as the No. 2, Kee Cheong-street, second way to sorrow and depression, for Justice, and one from Mr. J. R. Government to exempt them from all Bill was intended to provide a floor, Kennedy-town, deposed that the dead, being free from the grass Wood, the Pulsne Judge.

more alive

Wreaths were also sent by C. D. Melbourne, Mr. F. C. Jenkin, police watchmen there he made the acquaintance of Kelsey Physical matter, are corps of was no reason why it should be when the witness was No. 1 boy at

Eldon Potter, Mr. Leo

They have bent a tolegram to Can- married to provisions sa wide in the Cafe Parisien, and Kelsey had It is but natural that a certain Mr.

e Castro, Mr. D. J. ton. begging for the consideration of their scope. Registration of watch-visited him at his house several amount of selfish regret should, d'Almada men in principle did not appear in times, the last occasion being 2 arise in us when a loved one leaves Lewis, Mr. F. A. Perry, Mr. A. S. their request, and the representatives the physical form, but we should Banker, Mr. Lo Cheung-ship, Dr. of their pleading party will be sent to Canton, on soon as they have been ay. way, contrary to the spirit of a.m., on March 25.

combat even this regret for the C. H. Wan, Mr. A. P. Bungey, Dr.elected by the local organised bodies. freedom of contract; it was unly in

Witness's Denial,

Hoifung and Lukfung are The compulsory parts of the Bill When the Magistrate remarked separation is only apparent. The E. H. Kew, Mr. D. Davies, Mr. J. H

dead are all the while Gelling, Mr. H. A. de B. Botelho, the districts where the Swabue applied to private watchmen that that was a strange time to re- 50-called that the rights of the citizen were ceive visitors, the witness denied near us still, and every night when Mr. C. F. Garcia, Mr. J. L. Rocha, Soviet held sway for about six. interfered with. It was respectful- that he was keeping a sly brothel. We cave the physical body-being Mr. M. J. Gaan, Mr. M. F. de Faria- months.

If it is not bandit oppression, ly submitted that the efficiency The witness proceeded to say that however still bound to it till our Neves, Mr. M. M. Remedios, Mr. M. either of a corps of watchmen or both 'Kelsey and Whitworth were natural hour of death definitely da Silva, and Mr. C. G. Anderson. then it is unbearable local taxa- Mr. and Mrs. J. M. d'Almada tion which makes the small farm- of a rystem of registration of quite sober. At the witness's nevers the connection-every night watchmen could bust be tested by house they had a bottle of beer be- We freely join company with those Remedios, Mr. and Mrs. H. Ching, er and land worker the best mat- a voluntary system. If employers tween the thres of them, and then passed over and enjoy. their pre- Mr. and Mrs. P. Sequeira, Dr. and erial for Red agents to work on.

sence with us till the morning hour, Mrs. Y. K. To, Mr. and Mrs. E. Says a well-known authority: found police watchmen better than the Naval men left.

The agriculturalist, as a labourer. private watchmen, the private The witness gave several un- when our consciousness re-enters New Fung, Mrs. G. T. May, Mr. watchmen would lose thefr em satisfactory

answers to questions: the physical brain, and is unable and Mrs. Thomas Lay, Mr. and was ignored in all considerations of ployment but if, un the other by the Magistrate, and this led to recollect through its gross mat Mrs. T. X, Duc, Mr. and Mrs. John the labour problems in Chinn, until the Kuomintang became interested in kond, Employers found pri-Mr. Lindsell to remark that it ap- ter the experience it had whilst out C. Lang, Mr. and Mrs. N. Van the Communist Party of China and

Tuong, Mr. and Mrs. Y. Abbas, his availabikiy дв of it.

revolutionery | Tabe watchmen better than

peared that some witnesses for the The fundamental truth through- Mr. and Mrs. Akbar, Mr. and Mrs. material. Previous to this period police, watchmen it did not seem Crown were unable to speak the unreasonable that they should be truth.

out the universe is, he said, S. M. Mayes, Mr. and Mrs. Ying-1924-27) the general assumoting has been that all the peasants held their that there is no death. Man, leav-wing Chan, and Mr. and Mrs. Leo lands in small parreis under a com allowed to employ those who serv

Different Stery.

menal system which, from time Im el them best and were under their

Inspector Alexander said that ing the flesh-body continues to live d'Almada e Castro,

Wreaths were also received from memorial. has been anreciater with own control.

the witness had told him an entire in a body of finer matter made up

the family system and the basic_rell- destres and MessrA. Johnson Stokes and Petitioners submitted that

gious ideas of the Chinese"

people. ly different story from what he of his feelings, watchmen employed in the Colony was telling in Court.

thoughts, contemplating, thinking Master, Messrs. Lo and Lo, Messrs.

The Communists found that the did not were, with few exceptions, either

The car driver's foki, a learner over and drawing conclusions from Te'o and Hodgson, Messrs. Hart-above generalised summary Indian or Chinese and as Chinose driver, corroborated the

first all the experiences he had whilst ings, Dennys and Bowley, Meara, correspond with conditions in Canton, particularly in the Delta regions, watchmen were exempt from the witness's evidence, and depos-acting through the physical body Wilkinson and Grist, Messrs. Leo where there were large landowners compulsory provisions of the Bill, ed to Kelsey taking the wheel of the on earth. In this way he works d'Almada and Nephew and. Staff. and reduced frnart-farmers. the Bill if mesed would be in the on the return trip from out his character and tendencies Messrs. Woo and Nash, Clerical nature of a discriminatory measure Kennedy-town. The witness did and capacities, and re-adjusts him- Staff, Colonial Secretariat, Hong Jeinriat, which was undersid prul dis- "Theis researches, in the against Indians, who were British hot see anyone knocked down self for the next descent to earth Kong, Bailiff Department, Supreme satisfied, subjects in favour of Chinese who, whilst

being by living for a brief while on the Court, General Committee and Kwangtung and Hunon provinces led thems to helieve that cricultural mostly, were not. It was submit-driven by Kelsey. He did not higher planes where he knows him- Members, Q.C.O.B.A.

labour in China as rendier for th self in his true nature as to the know

There were also a large number volation organisations than the in- anything untoward WAS

of wreaths from Chinese colleagues dustrial labour in the larger cities.

in happening until the car fell into divine life in all things.

The agricultural labour unions of the deceased as well as from

Kwanetung were a tremendous ser members of the Chinese community

vice: to them

...fgainst by whom Mr. Suffiad was held in

Car

the car WAS

ted that it was contrary spirit of the Legislature. of the. Empire to interfere with the pri- the harbour. He was pinned in the rear seat after the fall, but was clear of the water as the car fell

vate rights of contract between members of the community except in certain definite classes of enses

which were treated in standard legal text books.

C.S.P's Powers,

the

partly on a junk and partly in the DIOCESAN SCHOOL. high esteem.

sed.

The case was again adjourned.

WILBUR PLAYERS.

The Petition refers to the power given to the Captain Superintend- ent of Police to exempt indivi- duals whether employers or em- ployees. It néemed unreasonable if an employee was satisfied and

"HER WEDDING NIGHT" the employer was satisfied that it

AT STAR. should be an offence to enter into a contract which hurt.no-one and

To-night at 9.15 the company will was to the interest of both parties. present "Her Wedding Night" a It seemed equally unreasonable to delightfully amusing farce notable expect any employer to go to the for the fact that there is no "bed-

p.m.

THE "AT HOME" NEXT WEEK..

lows:-

CINEMA NOTES.

"SHIELD OF HONOUR" AT QUEEN'S.

The Truth.

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Agricoltural Proletariat. They alen found on arricultural Two-

scrvative elements

. con-

Thoir

experiments la Haran WETO more daring and ruthless morhans

In Hunan, it is interesting to note, large landed estates have been more "gual than clsewhere in China, since the Taiping Rebellion.

RETURN VISIT.

BANVARD MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY.

The Headmaster and Mrs. W..T. Featherstone, the Staff and Scholars of the Diocesan Boys"] School will be At Home to parents.

and and guardians, old boys

The Saturday holiday finds each friends at the School on Saturday of the local cinemas showing an

The Banvard Musical Comedy afternoon, April 14, from 8.30 to 7 excellent picture. There is ""The Shield of Honour" at the Queen's,

Company, comprising twenty- The programme will be as fol-"Forlorn River" at the World, and three London artistes, who visited

"Love's Blindness" at the Star.

"The Shield of Honour" with Hong Kong in February last, whem revues at the Theatre Royal and ver is an original story by Star Theatre, are returning to the Emilie Johnson, and is woven Colony next week on their way around the loyalty and devotion of home afer an extremely success- a police officer to his work, Excel-ful tour at the North: Owing to lent settings, skilful direction, engagements in Malaya and India, numerous thrills and a sensational they will able to give only one climax go to make a thoroughly en- performance during their coming. joyable picture.

3.30 to 4.30 p.m-On the Ter-

trouble of obtaining the sanction room ́scene" although the time is race-Programme by the full band Nell Hamilton and, Dorothy Gulli.they gave a number of delightful

of the Ist. Bn. The Queen's Royal Regiment.

4 to 5 p.m.-Exhibition games. (a) Football match against the Machine Gun Section of the Queen's Regiment.

(b) Cricket at the nets.

(1) The Captain's net. (2) The 1st, XI net. - Tennis matches.

of the Captain Superintendent of two o'clock in the morning. To- Police who had numerous other morrow at 6.30 and 9.15 the com. duties, before employing any parti-pany will present the world-famous calar watchman already partly em farce comedy, "Charley's Aunt," ployed.

with special songs, dances and It was submitted that the Bill ad- music. Quite apart from the bab versely affected all shipping in the bling humour of the piece, much waters of the Colony which car- additional enjoyment will be des ried non-Chinese guards who were rived from seeing how it is pre- not registered as watehmen. These sented by an American company (c) guards must cease to carry out On Monday at 5.30 there will be

(1) eight senfor boys.. their duties whilst in the waters a matinee performance of "Three of Hong Kong otherwise both they Live

(2) eight junior boys, Ghosts," the sensational and their employers would be com-comedy with a London background, (d) Volley ball match-two school mitting an offence. Whilst power and at 9.15 p.m. the season will be

tearris In this matter was given to the brought to a close with a fare-

4.45 to 5.30 p.m.—Roller skating. Captain Superintendent of Police well performance of "The Family

(1) exhibition by 10 boyɛ. under Clause 5, it was respectfully Upstairs", the great comedy of 5 to 7 pmIn the Hall.

(2) general by 28. boys, submitted that it was a question domestic life, which is being re(a) Band Programme.

WORLD THEATRE,

...

visit, and this will take place in the Star Theatreat 9.15 p.m. on Friday, April 13. The produc tion they will stage, "Hors "Forlorn River" at the World d'Oeuvres"; an entirely new revue, embraces a strong cast, including, kas been selected with a view to Jack Holt, Arlette Marchal and giving the maximum amount of Raymond Hatton: Jack Holt ap- pleasure in one evening. Ac pears as an outlaw who later turns knowledged by the public of Shang- against the cattle rustlers fa his hal to be the most entertaining efforts to rescue the girl he loves, revna produced in that city for The picture was filmed amid re- many years, "Hora d'Oeuvrea" markably beautiful' settings and includes items from the latest the plot is entirely free from cheap London and New York, musical

which should be dealt with by peated by popular demand. Book (b) Dance Programme. Legislature and not by an indivi-ing is at Moutrie's and the Star

Theatre at the popular prices of $5, By the Queen's Regiment Band.melodrama.

Visitors will be invited, to inspect

dual.

Individual's Rights.

$2 and $1, with children half price the Buildings and Grounds.... Power was also given to the to the matinees. -

There are three approaches to the Echool

G.S.P. to punish a private watch-

man without trial and without

proper charge. It was submit-

01.

(1) By No. 7 Bus to Ho Mun Tin.

Every Twenty Minutes.

(2). By any Bus to Prince Edward No 6 Bus-Every five minutes No. 8 Bus-Every ten mintes. No. 10 Bos Every ten min

ted that it was the right General in Committee and agreed every individual to obto were (1) that the power to.fix tain a public trial before an wages, the arrangement of the Independent judge Before being grades and ranks of watchmen, re- punished. A private watchman gulating conditions of employment under the Clause in question would and providing for discipline and have neither the protection of the control would apply only to police public servant nor the rights of watchmen and would not apply to (8) By Yaumall Hallway Station

private watchmen; (2) that the The first route gives access to the The Petition asked that the clause should be omitted which main approach to the School; all be so amended as to exclade all provided that no person should cars, rleshas, etc. should go provisions of a compulsory nature without the permission of the Ho Man Tin. The second which Petitioners considered un- C.S.P. perform er pretend to per- gives access to the North workable, unjust, discriminatory, form the duties of watchmen for france up the steps Inequitable and unfair end to re- more than one employer, with simf-loon Tong The thi present an attack on a loyal and lar provisión prohibiting employ use to those people provident class composed of na-exch

an. Individual. M

tural born British subjects.

enty of m The Bill, as amended, will come Hang The Amandmentre into operation on May 1 so as to ing motor carn. The effect of the amendments to give time to those affected, to regis

These wil

STAR THEATRE.

successes, notably "Oh Kay", "Hit The Deck" "Stop. Flirting, and "Lady Be Good". "Hors d'Oeuvres” will also inchide original sketches "Love's Blindness at the Star specially written for this produc comes from the pen of Elinor Glyn. tion and dances arranged for the This picture had the advantage Banyard beauties, who will wear of being supervised by Mme. Glyn costumes brought, direct: from the herself, and follows, the original Folies Bergere and the Monlin story, closely. The leading players Rouge Theatre gours are ad Antonio Moreno and Pauline vised to reserve their seats early. Starke, the latter, especially being as there is sure to be a packed responsible for a very convincing house for the last opportunity of

seeing this xtremely popular, cons portrayal. The cinema perform

is at Montries ance will end at 8.30,

and the Star Theatre Price of Wilbur Players Comedy Comp

admission will be $4, $8, $2 and $1. at 9.15 p.m. presenting the fally amusing farce "Her

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