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The China Mail

Hong Kong. Thursday, Sept. 21, 1931.

Humiliation.”

News in Brief.

Sin Ho, master of a passenger. bont, reported that, whilst rowing in the harbour accompanied by his wife, Leung Man-chi, the latter ac- cidentally fell overboard and dis- appeared.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1931.

FORGED NOTES CASE.

(Continued from. Page 1.)

Replying to his Lordship, Mr. d'Almada said that he had not look

Rescued after having fallon into the harbour off the Prayn Wall at od up cases on that point because Connaught Road West yesterday it was so clearly stated in Russell, Chan Kai (20), of 19 Cheung Saufand he quoted the words "mhy not Lane, was sent to the Government be received" in the ease of an ac Civil Hospital.

Three boatmen charged in the Marine Court, this morning, with lying inshore off the Cheung Chau forry wharf last night, pleaded "guilty," and were fined $10 each

or, one week's hard labour

complice under joint trial.

CORRESPONDENCE,

“HUMILIATION DAY.”

To the Editor of "China: Mail"'] Sir. It is greatly to be regretted. that officialdom apparently did no- thing whatever to stop the flying of Chinese national flags at half-mast in the Colony yesterday."

To say the least, it showed gross lack of diplomacy; and might not unnaturally have been constru- ed by the Japanese community as a facit expression of sympathy with China in its "Humiliation Day."

China's grievances with Japan, this, or any other occasion, are

Matter-of Inducements. Arguing on the two statements in Russell and one in Archbold on this point, Mr. d'Almada said that

no concern of ours, It is our busi- clearly the object of making theness to preserve strict neutrality in If the Chinese

A baby boy, Wu Kwan-luen, aged provision was that if the Crown did the present issue. 18 months. of 15 Catchick Street, not pardon a man or enter a nolle wish to give vent to their feelings, let them do so in private; the au- was taken to the Government Civil prosequi, the natural tendency thorities here should certainly not

Hospital yesterday suffering from

injuries to the head caused by ne-would be for the man to give evi-permit public exhibitions of parti- cidentally falling out of bed on to dence which was precisely that re-sanship which are calculated, not a cuspidor on the floor.

quired by the Crown in order to only to give offence, but to disturb

the peace.. exculpate himself, That provi- It will no doubt be beneath the sion was to remove any fear from dignity of the Government to ex- a person so giving evidence and plain its curious attitude. Even if. give no inducement to him to put any comment is vouchayfed, it will | probably consist of a curt intima- the blame on the other accomplice. tion that "it could not see its way

clear, etc."

On charges of armed robbery committed at 12, Catchick Street, Kennedy Town, un, September 13. last two Chinese were committed

by Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court yesterday to take their trial at the Assizes.

Mr. people

evidence under such cir-

Another aspect of the business,

which by no means escaped romark"

Mr. Fitzroy Bald that all that dated before the Criminal Act. The Irish Free State President. The idea of saying that if a man

yesterday, is that the flying of the Cosgrave, appeals to his

Chinese national flag, alone, "is an home-produced gave to buy goods. failing which they should cumstances he must necessarily tell open admission of paramount Chin- buy British goods, and also ap- lies wag ridiculous, because it ene sovereignty on the part of those And yet, those re- peals to British people to recipro might be his whole defence. The concerned.

sponsible houses of business, mer- eate, says a Reuter cable.

suggestion, he said, was contrary to chants, and others who did this very

ST.

Chan Pak-siu, master of the Yim San Dyeing shop, Yu Chow Street, in a report to the Polles, alleges that on Tuesday last he entrusted a foki with 82 fb of cotton yarn Cheung Hing to be taken to the Kuitting Factory,The foki has since not been seen.

common sense.

I

Mr. d'Almada replied that he did not suggest that the man would necessarily tell lies, but there was the possibility of his doing so,

Point Reserved.

unawares

thing yesterday, in many cases are! only too anxious to avail themselves of the rights of a British subject, live under British protection, and fly for justice to British Courts!

If the Government were caught yesterday, and did not. know what to do, what was to pre- His Lordship sald that he was

such as the General Chamber of inclined to think that Kussell and Fent our admirable public bodies, Archbold could not be made to a-Commerce, or even the Rotary Club, with its clarion call of "Service," tactfully persuading Chinese business men from violating the

Yours, etc...

BRITON.

Hong Kong, September 21.

His Lordship: For consideration fundamental canons of etiquette?

sur- by the Full Court? Yes.

Mr. Justico. Lindsell then gested that there must bo come definite authority on the point.

Mr. d'Almada said that there might be but he had not looked it up and that was why he was asking for the point to be reserved. when he had had an opportunity to go into the matter fully, he found

If,

their swimming pavilions and suspended sporting activities for ROZARIO. At his residence, St.

a day was, it is reported in a Joseph Building, on Thursday, September 23, 1931, Polycarpe morning contemporary, the Hong Antonio Rosario, nged 47 Kong Chinese Civil Servants' Four Moslems were killed and 6 years, dearly beloved husband Club! In what other Crown wounded, when troops fired on a

Maria Sequeira Rozario.

Muslem crowd which was mob-ply to the accomplice in this caso,

Mr. d'Almada asked that the the Colony would ulion Civil Ser-bing milltary pickets in Srinagar, The funeral will pass Monument to-day at 5.30 p.m. vants be permitted to associite Kashmir. yesterday. On the Gov-point be reserved, Shanghai and Macao papers themselves publicly with a dis-ernment side the casualties were pute between two non-British ninety injured, mostly slightly, in- Bays cluding some high officials; rations? It is a disgraceful Reuter. commentary on the silence and How a nuirit was raised from inuction of the Government of the Tenth, Hell," how a fairy Hong Kong!

was expected to join a seance and Nor can the Chinese leaders how a Police Inspector appeared instead was described in a caso In the Colony, the Chinese mem-

heard by Mr. Williams in the hers of the Legislative Council, Central Police Court yesterday, that his Lordship was right he the Chinese Chamber of Com-when Yam Ching-yam, a woman could withdraw his application.

His Lordship reserved the point merce, and the Chinese members who claims to have psychic powers,

was charged with fortunetelling. and decided to take the evidence. of the Rotary Club be held en-with two others, Tam Siu-wal and

The case will continue this after tirely blameless for tacitly at-his wife who were her employers,

In reply to Mr. Fitzroy. Kong quiescing in an observance of she was charged with being con- tish citizens have thought if it

management of an unregistered awindle at all.. had been a "Humiliation Day"

patriots in this Colony to the ex- temple at 387, Hennessey. Road, arranged by the Japanese and tent of a public display of Chinese Wanchal. After had seen hundreds of Japanese national flags at

taken, the hearing was half mast.

journed to September, 80, flags at half-mast? Would it not

Against secrot ceremonies-such have been regarded as a dircet as a minute's silence before tiffin intention of fanning the flames in one Chinese Club - no possi- of Chinese feeling over the Man-ble objection can be laid. churia incident? Would it not have been condemned' as de

Yesterday was observed by the Chinese in this British Colony an "Humiliation Day"-the sequel to the Sino-Japanese clash in Manchuria. What would all Bri-

noon.

MOVING A CAPITAL.

Northern Rhodesin's £376,000 Scheme Approved.

The Governor of Northern Rhodesia, Sir James Maxwell, has Informed the Legislative Council of the British Government'e ap- proval of the scheme to move the capital of the colony from Living- to A site just east

"Humiliation Day" by their.com-cerned in the maintenance and said that he knew nothing about the stone

of Lusaka. An expenditure

The

Chinese, as with all nationalities,

can do what they please; with

!!

is it

estimat- Leo Arturo o'A. Guimaraes then of £876,000,

He said ed, will

for the be required entered the witness" box. Bomc

that his salary at the R. E. Stores now site, water supply, roads and WLB $124.70, and ho -made electric light. between $60 to $100

evidence was ad

:

They seized

by playing in He was born and had lived at about 15 years.

extra Lusaka is about 80 miles south a jazz band. of Broken Hill and much nearer the in Hong Kong copper mines than the present 6, Caine Road for capital. It is already a well-

He did not make established town.

The finances of Northern a study of Chinese language at all, but what Chinese ho could speak Rhodesia for the financial year end- had been picked up. He kept all ed March 31 showed a surplus of £126,000, the total revenue being £830,000.

To-day's Thought.

literature (though démocra

was closed. He opened it on previous generation, becomes no

Siz Arthur Quiller-Couch.

Ten Years Ago.

ARMED ROBBERY,

Woman Faints After- Being Bound. cidedly impolitie in a British due respect for law and order, in Another daring armed robbery Colony, in which all races enjoy | the privacy of their own homes occurred in Kowloon this morning his salary us pucket money.

By His Lordship-You don't con- equal rights under the protection and Clubs. As in the case of the in broad daylight. At about 8.30 tribute a dollar to the family?

o'clock a man went to No. 847, Lai-Nothing at all, my Lord. of the British flag? Merely be Hong Kong Government, it must chikok Road, and gained admit-Caimaraes then went on to tell of cause the Nanking Government equally reluctantly be placed on tance on the pretext of inspecting the happenings on July 24 When decrees ʼn certain course Chinese record that our Chinese leaders the electric lights. A few minutes he returned home at 4.45 pm, and subjects in this British Colony have failed the Colony by even a in two other men,

later he went to the door and let aceing that his mother was angry must needs obey it, irrespec policy of passiveness toward the the only occupant (a woman) of because his brother (Guilherme) the now) comes mainly of aristocra had got into association with Chintic stock, high thought, high breed tive of whether or not Japanese Chinese "Humiliation Day.” the flat around whose neck they ese people, he went downstairs anding, good manners, and to put or anybody else's susceptibilities It is no intention of ours to fixed rope and dragged her into was on his way out, when he noticed one's tongue out, so to speak, es Ա cubicle, where she immediately

that the door of the gitting room pecially at any man great in a are hurt. Nor did it matter, a view the question from the view-fainted.

ed. The flat where the out parently, whether or not the ob point of the Japanese residents rage was committed Is on the top

auspicion and saw his brother with one. floor... Bervance of "Humiliation Day' who WCUMULATE

deliberately affronted by the Chinese could be even in a British Colony."

When she came to, the men had three Chinese, He asked them in For the decamped, taking,

taking with them cloth-turn for their names and addresses wrongfully, of course, con- anke of our argument it does not in and Jewelers to the value of with the intention of reporting them to the Police. He and his strued by the Japanese as a matter whether the Chinese ob ever, $1,000,

One of the men la sald to have brother then decided to have the bol of British sympathy with servance was directed against been armed with a fevolver, a matter out, and so, they both left China in her regrettable dispute Japanese or Annamitem son lang sind EATON

the house and went into the street. Hos They proceeded to Lane, Craw with Japan. It does appear now, Koreans. They are represented at of armija pil entre

NEWS IN ADVTS, HS ford's, where after having a drink particularly in view of the anti here by a Cohlul-General, "who is

l-Gra had patersofthey went to Kowloon and parted. To-day's dollar la worth 2/10/ Japanese mob demonstration in quite capable of protecting their A number of lots of Crown land Whilst having the drink Gilherme

The bowls match between Shang the Wanchai district last night, interests and of making repres will be auctioned at the PWD told Leo that the business was

on Monday, Detalls,

delicate one and required secrecy, hal and the "Big Four" took place that the Hong Kong Govern- sentatives to the local Govern!!

in Page 8.

and assured him that mother was on the Kowloon Bowling. Green Club's 'green-yesterday. The "Biz ment t has been taken off its ment if axlating mensura for For the Popering of the "flobe" fiot to worry guard. As mutters, have do their protection be deemed in Room a special dinner skrice will Replying to his Counsel Mr. Four was the team that played in reloped, it must most regretfully adequate. But that of itself does he held in the Peninsula Hotel on 'Almadą) Guitars said that It the frets Interport match at

Saturday, October

was not true that he entered, the Shagboltwo years ago

The game was closely contested and reluctantly be asserted that not necessarily condone either the

foom and anid that he was a Police Hiliation Local Government or the leaders Horticultural Society will be held

the leaders The annual sheeting of the inspector.

A throughout, but toward the end of yesterday was a

Answering a::other question the strenuous struggle, the "Big Day' for the Hong Kong Govern of the Chinese community for in the Board room of Messrs. Guilmares said that it was not cor Four used their full weight and ment. Its intelligence service the deplorable events of yester Jarding, Matheson & Co. Ltd., on rect to say that the $2,000 he pulled ahead of their visitors. seems to have broken down, its day events of which there Thursday, October 8, at 5.15 pm Into the bank was part and parcel final score was 20-20.

of the proceeds of the fraull. The The teams were accustomed prescience, in domnest

VALE SELASSIE KAPInk megi eit ist be no possible recurrence A quantity of household furniture money had been loaned to) hiri by ShangHaji - Brown Tweedie, tic affairs appears to have van if the fair name of the Govern will be auctioned by Lammert Bro-his sister on July 22, which was Shaw and McAlister (Skin).

-~-~~"Big~-~-Four'' Harvey, Bond, ished, Even among those Chinède inent and of the 'Chinese fa to be thers at 296, Peking Building on his birthday.

Gerrard "and Russell (Skip). sporting Associations that closed restored and maintained.

::

Tuesday,

The case is proceeding.

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From the "China Mail" of

Sentember 24, 1921.1