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BOSTONIAN VIEWS. wave of crime, and with half con- aclous pride, they tell you they

MR. R. LINCOLN O'BRIEN, OF are suffering from the same

THE "BOSTON HERALD."

thing, and that you must not, if a woman, carry a handbag of valu WRITES ABOUT SHANGHAL. ables; that you must guard against a teacherous ricsha man's

12th instant, the SUPPLY OF world-tour.. WATER to that portion of the RIDER MAIN DISTRICTS West of Eastern Street will be controlled

Water Authority

Public Works Department, Hong Kong, July 10, 1928.

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SENSATIONAL TRIAL IN

SHANGHAL

SECRET HEARINGS.

Concession.

sen-

IN HYDE PARK.

MAN AND GIRL FOUND

· DEAD..

LOVE TRAGEDY UNSEEN.“

A young man and a girl were

found dead in Hyde Park. had wounds, in the throat.

They

The bodies were lying side by alde on the turf, about midway be- tween Marble Arch and Hyde Park police station.

'It is believed to be a love tragedy. The man and the girl were well

looking.

The discovery, was made by a

ner.

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The following is a letter writ-running into the native city, and -Seventeen, Chinese were HONG KONG WATERWORKS, ten by Mr. B. L. O'Brien, Editor there robbing you, in one of its tenced to death by the Provisional

of the "Boston Herald" to his labyrinthian dens to which no Court at Shanghai on June 8, Ion and after THURSDAY, the hal last March in the course of a

Two were sentenced to impri- IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that paper, during his visit to Shang-westerner could find his relieving

sonment for life. If the daily newspapers are to Four were sentenced to terms be trusted, and their editors of imprisonment ranging from Shanghai, March 28.

assert that they have no purpose two to ten years. Colour and contrast are the in stressing this phase of the

Forty prisoners charged with by bringing the RIDER MAINS characteristics of this inter-news, there is a disagreeable MONEY TO LOAN.-$80,000 im- into operation and that Water will national city, near the coast of situation here, growing out of the armed kidnapping were acquitted. dressed. The girl was very good

The most sensational trial in- conflict of authority, and the gen- volving Chinese armed kidnap mediately available for advance on be Turned on to each RIDER MAIN, Asia, destined to become, some mortgage on first class property in daily for Two Consecutive Hours. people believe, the greatest com-eral tension. The international pers ever held in Provisional the Colony, interest 74% par Information as to the Hours of mercial port on the globe. Why city has sentenced 56 Chinese to Court or Mixed Court annals policeman, who immediately signal- menth. Apply Box No. 661, c/o Sapply to any Particular Property not? It lies on an affluent of the violence, all of which have been Judge Chau and Deputy Burdett

death, one by one, for crimes of ¡was brought to a conclusion, led to a colleague.

The couple were taken.in an am- may be obtained on application at Yangtze, the third river in the Office of the Water Authority, volume in the world, and so at held up by the Nanking Govern- who had presided over a special bulance to St. George's Hosital, but or Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, the entrance to a valley peopled by ment, on the fimsiest pretences. Court for the trial of 63 Chinese they were past aid.

The bodies) half of China's 400 odd millions of When the police of the foreign delivered their considered judg- were then removed to the mortuary. or at the Tung Wah Hospital.

The Bund at Shanghai is City go over into the native area, ment after evidence for and Papers were found on the man, HAROLD T. CREASY,

lined with buildings comparable, į they meet obstruction more often except in height, with those of than otherwise, in consequence against the accused had been pre- and it is believed they will lead to Michigan-avenue, Chicago, and the coolies, sheep-like by tra- sented and refuted by prosecution his early identification.

and defence over a period of

A Letter. resembling that famous thorough- dition, readily display their feel-nearly a month and a half.

The "Evening Standard" under-1 ings.

An American companion

Three were ordered to be hand-stands that a letter ready for the to the water. Here, close to the the other evening, signalled riced over to the French authorities poat was found on the girl.

sha man across the street, in street line, lies the most crowded stead of employing those at the ing against them for alleged vestigation into the circumstances as there are certain charges pend- The police are making a close in- water-passage imaginable, with

door who were clamouring that forests of native craft of strange conveniences in IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that design, beside the merchant ships his last coin payment had been crimes committed in the French in which, in broad daylight, two people could be found in this man- Ian INTERIM DIVIDEND of £3 of all lands, and sprinkled among bad money, and not let hire ride

should be

Wealthy Boy, Street. Apply to H. Ruttonjee & per Share, subject to deduction of them the battleships of the in the one he ordered; they sim- sion a trial which has lasted for bulance arrived that the many hun- Thus was brought to a conclu- It was only when the police am- One new bank building on the Ply grabbed it, and held it, amid a several weeks in which were in-dreds of people in the near neigh-|| the HALF YEAR ending 30th Band, not more than six storeys babel of menacing threats, until volved a gang of armed kidnap- JUNE, 1928, at rate of 2/- 3%-per high, cost £5,000,000, measured and then they ran in all direc, Pers responsible for a great many hourhoed, in the park, knew of the he pulled out a police whistle, THE DIVIDEND.will be payable in American gold. The Shanghai tlons.

of the kidnappings and killings But they can be "very which have terrorised the Chinese PRIVATE LESSONS in English AUGUST, 1928, at

Jon and after TUESDAY, 7th Club, nearby, famous for the

the offices of longest bar in the world, in other nasty," on a side street, or in the of Shanghai over a lengthy and French; violin and plano: the Corporation, where Sharehold-respects deserves pre-eminence. possessed of the upper hand.

evening, or wherever they feel

¡period. Endless investigation "I had only just passed the spot stenography and typewriting. Easy ers are requested to apply for At least one hotel in Shanghai,

and perseverance on the part of within a distance of about 100 I had a clear view of the Aimal Warrants.

in extravagance of furnishing "HIRAM BINGHAM PARK,” the police resulted in the capture yards. and design, might well challenge. THE REGISTER OF SHARES of

. Do you recall # speech of 63 suspects and the release of Rapid the Corporation will be CLOSED comparison with any public house

'three of their victims. -made a senator If there is any-recent return in the world. from MONDAY, 23rd. JULY thing modern in the earth that tic journey in which he alluded to conditions in all parts of the In Asia- raids under the most dangerous SATURDAY, 4th AUGUST, 1928, (both days inclusive) during which Shanghai does not possess I have the park in this city in which the French Concession and Chinese strangely enough, no unusual atten-

ternational Settlement, the Automobiles of Asiatics

were STEVENAGE period no transfer of Shares can latest design flash past automa- They call that Hiram Bingham territory resulted in the arrest of

not admitted? Within an hour from Lon-be registered. don. In healthy neighbourhood,

tically regulated street signals, as Park here now, at least in explain the gang. black-bearded Sikh policemen ing the situation to strangers. It,

Among the victims released SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL

imported from India, guide the is a piece of land reclaimed from was a wealthy Chinese boy who encompassing masses of ric-

an old creek, and made a green had been held for a ransom of shas into havens of safety. All the latest devices of electric respot beside the river for the child- $1,000,000.

Starting from a tiny clue in the frigeration. and other household Ten of the foreigners with their

Asiatic nurses, etc. The Euro-statement of a Chinese arrested able to Even the Chinese newspaper, would be of no use whatever to us tective the police were printed in the 4.000 characters of if thronged with coolies."

unravel a tangled skein of crime the strange language, has a manu-

which had been baffling them for facturing plant superior in equip. NOT AN ABODE OF PEACE, months. One arrest led to an- ment to that of the "Boston This city is not an abode of other until 63 men and women Herald" even though it sets its peace and harmony. Each group were in the hands of the police,

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two people lying there on the grass, and I noted them without paying

great deal of attention.

Scores of others must have seen them, but they had attracted, tion. The couple must have been visible even to people passing be-| side the park on the tops of the buses.

"Both the man and the girl seem- ed well-to-do."

It is believed that the man and

conveniences are the vogue here.peans here say "of course;" it in a tea hduse by a Chinese de, the girl had been walking about for

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over an hour before making their way to this part of the park.

A razor, it is stated, was found near the bodies.,

A PICKWICK PLAY.

of nationals has its own chamber Convincing evidence was found of commerce. The British are in the majority of instances suf-

For the first time since the days: the predominant element of the ficient to necessitate the charging of Sir Herbert Tree at His Majes- international city, the Shanghai of the whole gang.

ty's Theatre London is to see a Club, etc., and yet the chairman

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of the council, virtually the One of the most startling facts Mr. Basil Dean has arranged to There is nothing slow about mayor, is a Maine Yankee, a revealed during the investiga- put on Mr. Cosmo Hamilton's ver the Governor, of one Lot of Crown Shanghai. Called the Paris of classmate of John Clair Minot's at tions of the police was the factsion of "Pickwick” at a theatre at Land at Tai Kok Tsui in the the east it excels the French capi- Bowdoin College. Fessenden has, that at the head of the gang was Christmas. Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of tal in gay life of all kinds.

Mr. Charles Laughton To held this office for years, with a person who enjoyed the protec- will play Mr. Piékwick, and - the 75 years with the option of renewal enjoy it pleasure seekers of all great acceptability, and with ation of full civil rights and accu- Dingley Dell Christmas Party and at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the nations, including the rich orien- curious touch of British practice, pied a prominent position in Chin- the Bardell v. Pickwick trial will be LAMMERT BROS. Surveyor of His Majesty the King, tals, pour in from half a world. performs its duties without com- ese society. In a position to staged.

for one further term of 75 years. Wine, women and song appear in pensation. He is a lawyer here. know the habits and relative posi- PARTICULARS OF THE LOT. high colours. And yet it is the The British have their troubles, tions of many wealthy Chinese greatest missionary centre of the They deported the Germans at with whom he mixed he was able planet. Pages upon pages of the time of the war, and the to plan, from a coign of vantage, the business directory of the tele-great German Club on the Bund numbers of kidnappings without. phone book are devoted to mis-has now become a Chinese bank, actually taking any prominent sionaries, of whom Protestants They put up a monument to allied part in them, of various sects appear in one sec-dead in the war. Liberal-minded The trial of the gang was held tion and the numerous Catholic Britishers say this was a mis- in the Provisional Court behind orders and alsterhoods in another. take, and that it should have closed doors in view of the fact Of Protestant sects the Seventh commemorated the valour of sol that many important Chinese H Day Adventists

suffering are the most diers of all armies, since this is witnesses, had been intimidated numerous and perhaps efficient, an international settlement, and and were afraid to testify against Catarrh, Kidney, Stomach trouble the denomination of which Mra. that Chinese resistance is encour- the men and women in the dock. Dropsy, Indigestion, Castritia, Votaw, Warren Harding's sister, aged by evidence of hostility Although the proceedings were Eczema, Blood Poison, Diabetes, and her husband, afterwards among European races. At all not public they attracted large Bright's Disease, Lung, Constipa penal commissioner of our gov-events the Germans have made crowds during every session. tion, Tumor, Ulcer, Hay fever, ernment, were long engaged in such a hit with Nationalist China These waited in the precincts of Malaria, Nervousness, Rheumatism, the foreign field. When you con- that they have been supplied with the Court for hours indicating the Coughs, Throat Trouble, or other sider the slight attention Sunday a badge, in Chinese characters, to amount of public interest created Ills, there is hope for your relief

among the

Chinese wear on the arm in times of in-in the arrest of a gang which through the POO ON CHINESE masses, who know of it chiefly as ternal riot and disorder, and this had been a source of the greatest HERES. a "bank holiday" for foreigners, protects them from assault by all terror to the community.

The date of the execution of you may well imagine their state the warring factionalists of the of mind over a missionary group native population.

the seventeen condemned Chinese secking among other things, to On the tender the other night, will depend upon the confirmation lay the sabbatarlan emphasis on a highly intoxicated American of the death sentences from Nan- Saturday.

marine got into a fight with some king.

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Still everything goes in Shang-Chinese. The merits of the con- hai. American chiropractors are test I did not learn, but did hear much in evidence and highly re-him declare, with some adjecti- garded. Organisations of the val vigour, that every Chinese west, from the. Rotary Club of should be killed. When arrested America, to the German and by international city policemen Scandinavian trade unions, are he promptly declared war on the doing business. And all this be-British empire in behalf of the side a native city of a million great republic of the west. The atruggling and tugging people, sad thing is that to thousands of whose children wear dog collars Chinese he is the American type; after an illness, to fool the devils they judge us by him rather into thinking they are dogs and than by Minister MacMurray and

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The British have the disagree- Their Buddhist temples are able work to do all over the east. thronged with excited Chinese, Their battleships can protect buying the slender piece of san- property; ours are under caution- dalwood designed to meet the dis-ary orders of various ports, so 11 Partze Hotung 40 Po Wah Sk ease with which they are at home that a cult of Americanism has

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