MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928.
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ABSENCE OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA,
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TWO NOTORIOUS OFFENDERS CHINESE WHO WANTED TO GO COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
DEPORTED.
PIRACIES AND A MURDER.
TO FRANCE.
A NEW EXCUSE.
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IN THE "MAIL”.
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July 31-Aug. 1-Queen's Theatre: "The Midnight Rose" (Wed. at 9.15 Long Tack Sam).
July 31-Aug. 1-World Theatre; "Sparrows."
July 31-1 Aug-Star Theatre: Three Faces East."
Aug. 1-At Queen's Theatre.
Dissension in the ranks of Cam- How the long arm of the law has At the Kowloon Magistracy, on munist agents and agitators has re-encompassed two notorious men of Saturday, four Northern Chinese sulted in Hong Kong having been the underworld is described in re-were charged before Mr. W. Scho- s'agularly free for some consider-markable narratives given below of hekt with stowing-away
Shanghai to Hong Kong on board able time from the activities of a series of violent crimes.
One' man, who was deported from the a.. "Coblenz." They claimed: propagandists who previously tried
Hong Kong on Friday, is not more that they had given $160 each to to stir up trouble:
but he is friends for the purchase of passage the than 30 years of age, to Information
known to have taken an actual ickets to France, but the friends Chinese Reds in the South having quarrelled with their former Rus-art in several piracies and it is left the ship before its departure sian colleagues on the choice of alleged against him that he openly and were not seen again, Accord-Long Tuck Sam and h'a company time to launch a counter-attack boasted of having financed the nting to n.ship's oilleer, the men were of wonder workers, 9.20 p.m.
The other is a little older. He formerly employed on the ship and has been banished after the Police
were paid off on arrival at Shang-Midnight.” had withdrawn a charge of murder a They were discovered in the against him. Fortunately for him, remen's quarters on the day fol- witnesses were not available towing the vessel's departure from prove that he instigated, years ago Shanghai. Fines of $20 each, or.
default, the murder in Yaumati of a rival
three weeks hard who stole contraband worth $20,000. jinbour were imposed.
against the Canton Government.
Athough a comparatively small num of Soviet parasites are sus pected of having drifted back into the seclusion of neighbouring ports, it is felt that the possibility of im- mediate nutbreak is exceedingly remate.
Propaganda Firai. Contact has been maintained bo- tween some of the Russians who were ordered to leave Chinn their Chinese friends.
tack on the "Tean" in May. ..
LIVED AT BIAS BAY.
OPEN-AIR CONCERT.
The deportee who made piracy a and profession was known as Cheng R. O. S. B'S BAND ENTERTAIN
Lap-ting hut he had several aliases,
KOWLOON.
Aug 2-4-Star Theatre; "After
Aug, 2-4-Queen's Theatre; "The Red Mi" (At 9.15 Long Tack Sam).
Aug. 2-4--World Theatre; "Hea- ven on Earth,"
Aug. 17-Second Band Concert at H.K.V.D.C. Headquarters.
Sport,
August 1-Tennis match: H.K. V.D.C. v. Recrelo. King's Park, Kowloon, 5.15 p.m.
August 1-Swimming sport, and gala at Kowloon Recreation Club bench. by K. O. S. Borderers, to celebrate Minden Day.
A large gathering greatly enjoyed the al fresco concort by the 2nd Borderers King's Own Scottish
Aug. 24-H.K.V.D.C.'s swimming Regimental Band, and Pipes and Drums on the Kowloon Dock Regala at V.R.C, Bath, 9 p.m.
Meeting. creation Club last night.
The performance of the Band,
For reasons best known to them-He is a native of the Hakka district selves, the Russians advocated no of Tai Pang but he was brought up action until the moment was oppor-in a village near Bias Bay. ture. They pointed to the failure Speaking the Cantonese dialect of the rising in Canton last Decom-fluently, he has considerable influ ber na being proof of the futility offence in political and military striking before the propaganda side spheres. In fact, it is known that of the campaign is complete.
the magistrate of the Pa On district - The Chinese Communista were (adjoining the New Territory).under the conductorship of Mr. eager to make another bid for from his yamen at Namtau, wrote to W. H. Fitz-Earle, A. R. C. M., was power. They wanted to come out Hong Kong to, vouch for his boaa an unqualified success, the talent at the beginning of this month, fides, as did a military officer in the with which the various selections junt about the time of harvesting
were presented being much appre- same district. the rice crop in many districts in
cinted. Kwangtang Their argument was that if the crops were ruined, more farmers and farm hands would be
forved to join the cause.
On the other hand, the. Russians -a number of whom are said to be
On the other hand, the gentry of Po On were persistent in their ac
ensations of Cheng Lap-ting.
EX-POLICE OFFICER.
He was arrested in Hong Kong in hiding in Canton city, Swatow some time ago, in a hotel it is be and elsewhere--felt that they would lieved) and he maintained that he 1ose sympathy among the agricul-was waiting passage to Po On. His turists if they spoiled the crops.
Last Raid Here.
ruote.
"Kwang Hsu," Lincke's Chinese March, with which the programme was opened, was very well executed, the piece being a lively one with a fascinating Oriental air which brought up visions of pagodas.
en-
August 2H.K. Football annual. meeting at Volunteer Headquar ters, 5.30 p.m.
Miscellaneous,
August -Garrison Children's Schools annual prize-giving, in H.K.V.D.C. drill hall, 11 am.
"PUSSYFOOT.”
"DRY" SALOON CHIEF THE
PASTOR.
from Syracuse New York, to the "Chicago Tribune" (quoted by Cen- tral News).
The Rev. Lewis Tucker, Superin-
tendent of the local prohibition safoon, officiated.
Rossini's "William Tell" was also delightfully played and well re- story is that he had previously held ceived, the audience being
Mr. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, the pro- ja police appointment on the other thuslastic in their demands for an
played hbition leader, was married recent- side of the British frontier but had encore: Other selections At any rate, it is learned that the been dismissed when a rival faction were Youninns "Hit the Deck."ly to Mary Bessie Stanley, of Chinese agents of the Communist Party are drifting away from the frame into power. This seems to be Bonnisseau's "Robert. Bruce," and Washington, according to a message
true. At any rate, he claimed to be Stodden's "Communityland."
Between the Band items, the handful of Russian agitators and, accordingly, the danger of an ineon his way to take up another ap
The Regimental Pipera under Pipe- poitment as a police officer. diata outbreak is exceedingly re-impression of the people who were Major W.C.K. Mackie and the Not since the raid on premises into be in his charge was highly an- Drummers under Drum-Major W. D. Dalrymple. played on the lawn. favourable, Percival-street, at East Point, have
The name of the first ship which Their contributions, all of which the Hong Kong Poller come into any he la altered to have taken part in were well received, were "The 48th seditious Iteratore to speak of. A Chinese woman, who has been work-bhing a given as the "Shing Bonate Woods and Braes," "The Highway to Linton," "Doveronts MOR" ing as a domestic servant in a non-
Then there was the British s.s. Park," "The Braes O'Mar." "The Chinese family for some time, was
ny Delight," "Pibroch suspected of being a entrier. She leang Bee" in January, 1927, when. Kilt is was watched but nothing transpir-the gang got away at Pas Bag with O'Donnie Dhu," "Stirling Castle" ed. The absence of activities in $100.000. There followed the piracy and "Miss Girdle,” Hong Kong is taken to indicate that of and murder on board the br the Reds are lying low elsewhere, wegian s.s. "Solviken" a year age, and not having to pass through then both of these piracies his no Isles," and the Regiment's own air
Colony or seek refuge here.
Raid in Shanghal.
was mentioned at the time of the occurrence.
The Pipes and Drums played the grand finale in which "Macfarlane'a Favourite," "The Road to the
"Blue Bonnets o'er the Border," were spiritedly rendered.
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William Johnson won the nick-
name of "Pussyfoot" by his stealthy methods of fighting alcohol. He has travelled all over the world, preaching Teetotalism. While in
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Subsequently, inquiries led to in- tion) states that about 1 am. on formation that he had, outside the the night of July 28-29, armed Colony, basted to confederates police raided a Communist rendez-about having financed the piracy vous in Shanghai when a secret of the British an. "Tenn" at Hoi-j meeting was in progress. The pre-how, the exploit ending in the out-| mises were searched, resulting in laws hurrying ashore, also at Rias Sir Edmund Fremantle, the obtained upon application at the a large quantity of Communist Day, with $8,000 lont, pursued by oldest British admiral, celebrates Registered Office of the Company, documents being seized and seven landing parties from a Chinese his ninety-second, birthday to-day. Canal Road East, Bowrington, Chinese and two Russians arrested. Customs cruiser and H.MS.
Mr. Wang Ching-wai (the Na-"Somme."
He is a man of spright carriage Hong Kong. with a wall that still bears traces NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Eagland he lost the sight of an eye tionalist Leftist leader), it is un- Considerable stir was caused by of a sailor's roll.
that the REGISTER OF MEMBERS during a medical students" "rag." derstood, was at the conference, the official and non-official classes
Recently he predicted that the "Moderation" he said to a "Daily of the Company will be CLOSED but owing to indisposition he remaking such, spirited representa Express representative yesterday. from WEDNESDAY, 8th AUGUST world would "go dry" by 1962. The tired shortly before the arrival of tions to Hong Kong. The accus has been my motto since boyhood." to TUESDAY, 21st AUGUST, 1928, prohibition movement in England
ers prevailed and Cheng Lap-ting
and Scotland, he said, "had grown Sir Edmund is full of tolerance both days inclusive.
beyond our fondest expectations."
the police.
Among the arrested men are said was placed on the Namtau ferry towards the present generation.
to be Fung Ping-shan (a notorious Chinese Communist). Pang Paf (Heifung and Lukfting Red chief), Chan Kung-poh and Koo' Meng-yu,
Of the arrested Russians, one is rumoured to be Borodin, the cable) concludes.
MINDEN DAY.
BORDERERS' CELEBRATIONS
ON WEDNESDAY.
Saturday of banishment.
under an order of "Girls: now," he said, "are prettier than they were in Victorian days. I think they are quite as capable of voting as their elders. Dancing is over for me but I don't think I have missed much.
SMUGGLER THIEF.
Sequel to Murder in a Ten-House.
"I don't worry about diet, but I think beer is far healthier than spirits. Young men drink far leas now than they did in my young days.
A curious tale of bullies in the smuggling, world is told. in connec-
"My birthday party is to be held tion with the murder story.
in the afternoon-like a. young. Chan Chee-nam, who was deport ster's! It will be a gathering of Minden Day, the cnniversary of eð after having been in Police cus- my family and my friends." the Battle of Alinden in Westphal,tody more than once and a fugitive Prussia, will be celebrated by the from justice at least once, was ac 2ad King's Own Sentlish Bordercra tually brought before on Wedn sday, August 1.
. Every man of the Battalion will wear a rose in his helmet in com memoration of the Batile in which the Borderers Look part with
honour..
a Police glers.
Ile played false with his lagistrate on a charge of murder prineipnis and atole contraband- committed a good many years ago. either; arms Dr. opium-worth
After a week's formal remand, Į $20,000. Chan Chee-nam was no! the Folice withdrew the case be-connected with the venture but, so cause they could not trace an eye-the story goes, he indicated to the witness of the fatal attack in a thief that he had a share and that The celebrations will. take the Yaumati tea-house, whose statement he must have compensation or he form of swimming eports and had been recorded at the time, Ex- would make him suffer. gala at the Kowloon Dock Recrea- tensive inquiries were made both
ation Club. bench in the afternoon. n the Colony and in Canton but
PLAYED FALSE.
THE INSTIGATOR.
In the evening there will be High-the man, said to have been a waiter, At any rate, statements 'taken land Dancing, the venue of which, could not be found. The Police after the murder contained allega according to present information, adopted the only alternative-tions that Chan Cheo-nam was the will most probably be the Murray ban shment proceedings.
instigator-presumably because his Parado Ground.
thrents did not result' in payment. The names of the murderers were Chan Chee-nam's punishment fol-discovered but these men were in We have received the monthly owed a coincidence. A man who biding, away from Hong Kong, be magazine "The Rock" The Cu was suspected of having been one of fore action could be taken. After rent number comprises excellent the assassins was arrested on the some time, the witnesses drifted reading and beautiful illustrations lay of the murder of Mr. Lee away and, feciing secure, Chan of St. Margaret's Church (Happy Valley) and of the Ordinations
Hysan; the local millionaire, a few Chee-nam returned to the Colony. which took place recently at Peking, months ago. In making a thorough He stayed here a good many years where the Bishop of that district comb-out, the Police came across a during which he was in the hands administered Orders, to cleven stu-man whose name was known to of the Police more than once but dents, of which two were raised to them. His detention led to Chan was released owing to insumclency the priesthood. The articles In the Chee-nam being arrested as well. of evidence. number ere ales well worth rend- The deceased is believed to have. This time, the long arm of the law, Ing
been a member of a gang of smug-reached him,
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