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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933.

ANTI - DUMPING

TAX IN CHINA

Committee Completes

Investigations.

RECOMMENDATIONS SUBMITTED |

proval.

EORRESPONDENCE.

GUIDES AND SCOUTS

[To The Editor "China Mail"]

I suppose there are very few

THE CHINA MAIL

CRIMINAL SESSIONS

ON MONDAY

A Light Calendar.

Court.

day:-

MR. W. F. GARDNER TO APPEAR

a

To-Day's Short Story.

ESCAPE

By E. H. Lacon Watson.

TE was conscious of making would be one of the bullies:

he

CHINA

A colander of nine Cases will Nanking. To-day. people in these days who will be According to a spokesman of found to deny the usefulness of the come before the. Acting Chief Jus- the Anti-Dumping Committer Girl Guide and Boy Scout Move tice, Mr. J. R. Wood and the Puiane which is jointly organised by the ments which have grown so remark- Judge, Mr. R.E. Lindsell, at the he left the fine old Georgian others. Easy enough, if you starf. house and heard the front doored right: the difficulty lay in just) five Criminal Sessions which open on Financial and Industrial Depart-ably during the last twenty

There is, however, a ten- Monday morning at the Supreme close behind him with a well-those first few steps. Or did it lie ments of the Nanking Govern years.

oiled click. Quite smooth-like deeper down than that? Perhaps ment to study the possibility of dency on the part of the general

public to Lake these Movements His Honour the Chief Justice will everything else in that infernal it did. He was just a Funk, by imposing Anti-Dumping taxes on some imported goods, the Com-rather for granted and to forget that take the following cases on Mon-street-that street of lies and fair rature and habil. Never could h

words. Nothing could have been shake off that fatal disability now. mittee has completed its work of Guiders and Scouters and also for

there is constantly

a need for

Cheung Lam, charged with lar blander than the tones of the It was too late. investigating foreign goods

Jeminent physician who had just True, he had been exceptionally financial support.

ceny after previous convictions; which are really being dumped.,

At least, unfortunate. Everywhere he went Recommendations for

Here in Hong Kong one has often Tse 30, charged with larceny after pronounced his doom.

lit had sounded to him like that, there was always one man who assess heard the criticism made that not previous convictions; Lo Long, ment of anti-dumping taxes on enough is seen of the work which charged with

was well who got on his nerves so that manslaughter and, though clearly Sir. James these goods will be submitted to the Guides and Scouts do and that Tang Fau-kan, charged with man could. "A simple operation," he himself in his presence, Why minimising it as much as he he hardly knew what to do with the Government for their An- therefore one cannot expect to re- slaughter.

had called it, lightly. But he were there such Beasts in the ceive the financial support which Certain classes of imported would probably be forthcoming if will take, Liu Shiu-man, charged died of it. There was Jerning- his trouble, really-the remarkable His Honour, the Puiene Judge, new well enough that men often world? That had been the root of goods such as matches, cement we had greater publicity. and electric light bulbs have Movements do not go out of their building with intent to commit

Our with being found by night in 24 ham, one of his fellow-members prevalence of Beasts. There had been subject to the imposition of way to court pubilelty, but great felony; Tsang Wai, charged with nursing-home the other day. his immediate neighbourhood at Jat-the club, who had died in a always been one, if not more, in different rates of anti-dumping, Rallies and Jamborees which tax, and the committee's recom-effective

are robbery; Wong Kam-tsuen, charged The same thing, precisely. And school, and again at college, and mendations may be interpreted Movements before the Public

means of bringing the with a breach of Deportation Or Jerningham was a lot healthier again when he was in business, and as an indication of its intention difficult to arrange in a place like with a breach of the Deportation Though he never

are dinance and Wong Kwan, charged

¡than he had been, lately, now at his club. Always some one of applying this protection mea-Hong Kong.

said much man whose business it seemed to be Ordinance and with child-stealing about it, his heart used to palto annoy and affict him. And fust sure to other kinds of imported On Saturday evening. September

now, too, when he had come inta 23, there will be a chance for mem- [

pitate cruelly sometimes. W. F. Gardner, a former employee) He know, as he left the house, his little bit of money and been bers of the Hong Kong Public who of the Union Insurance Society of that he had not taken it well. The able to retire, and fancied that, at are interested to see a little of what Canton Ltd., will appear before the deferential butler, Guides and Scouts can do.

had last, he might be going to get some even, A con- Acting Chief Justice, Mr. J. R.notfeed something, and seemed enjoyment out of life. een with demonstrations 18 being Wood, on Tuesday morning, to ans-'really concerned. Would he care

Harrable was the man's name. urganined by the Guides and Scouts wer to a charge of obtaining credit to have a small whisky? He look (Even about the name there was of St. Paul's Girls and Boys Col-while still un undischarged banked rather white. And in fact he something revolting: it Bege, and it will be held in St. Paul's

Girls' College commencing at

fat, and tuscious, and over-ripe.) 7.30

Pure imagination, no doubt, but p.m. The demonstrations will ɔn-

from the first moment he had seen elude Boxing. First Aid, Signalling Jelc., and the concert items wil in-

the man he had felt sure-Not be Jelude two short plays to be given

must manage somehow to get out of

by the Guides and

He ought to have been able to this habit of over-emphatic stato- South them-

take it better than that. But he ment. Keep calm, judical, under selves.

had always been-rather that way any provocation. In fact, he had remember. not dislike the man so much fust One of those nervous, highly. | strung fellows whose lives have been a burden to them from the start. He remembered perfectly well going to school for the first

goods. — Central News Agency.

CORAL ISLANDS

DISPUTE.

Chinese Cruisers To Investigate.

POSITION OF ISLANDS TO BE DETERMINED.

Canton, To-day. Mr. Yo Ming, who is represent, ing the Nanking Foreign Office In addition the following authorities on the "Coral Islands" very generously offered their help

in discussions with the Canton

have

Mr. Ronald True and the "Cheero" dispute, arrived here yesterday. Band, the Misses Stella and Helen

He immediately conferred:

Ho und Mr. E. F. Selk. A small

Provincial Government.

rupt.

European To Be Tried,

ACTION AGAINST EUROPEAN

had been glad to hold for a moment to the balusters as he came down the broad staircase. A Bort of giddiness came over him. But he refused a drink.

Furniture Company's ever since he could

Claim Fails.

WIFE'S EVIDENCE

Judgment for the defendant was time: the desolate scusation of

EMPORIUM

sounded

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be

"A Horseman In The Sky," by Ambrose Bierce.

with Mr. Kan Chai-hou, Insper proportion of the proceeds will be tor of Foreign Affairs in South devoted to the equipment funds of western China, and Mr. Lin Yun the Company and Troop organising yesterday awarded by the Chief utter loneliness when he was left kai, Chairman of the Kwangtung the Concert and with the balance, Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, in an ac-in the old college buildings, and his at first: he could vaguely recollect

It is learned that as the reconsiderable one, we intend to form Company against Mr. A. Martin, of train home. He felt exactly like a Amusing!

which it is to be hoped will be a ton by the Lun Hing Furniture father had gone off to catch the having thought him amusing. ault of their discussions a deck the nucleus of

Good God! Endowment two

Marrable. sion has been taken that Nan Funds from which grants may be $116.60, the balance due on a total there were a lot of hungry pike, just behind one of the players, and 19, Cameron Road, Kowloon, for small fish dropped into a pool where used to sit there. In the eard-room, king and Canton should onch des paid to assist poor Guide Companies indebtness of $685.50. patch a cruiser to the South and Scout Troops.

It seemed to him that all his life make comments. Of course no China Sea to investigate the posi We hope that many will consider Mr. C. Lowe of Messrs. Dennys had been spent scurrying into con-man ought to be allowed to do tion of the islands, as a

pre- the cause a worthy one, and if it and Co., appeared for the plaintiffsners and trying to hide himself. things of that sort: no man would liminary step towards taking uns impossible for sume to attend the while Mr. R. H. Cole of Messrs. All through his life he had been in any really respectable club. the matter with the French Conerrt we shall be very glad to re. Geo. K. Hall Brutton., represented struggling to escape notice, unsuc- That was the worst of the Camisis: Government. — Central News ceive donations towards the Endow- the defendant.

cessfully. Always he was being it had fallen from its old position. Agency.

Owing to pressure of work, the dragged out, held up, and exposed. Of course, in a way, it was large-. Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, de-

What a poor life he had passed!]ly his own fault. He ought to "REDS" ROUTED AT

Assistant Commissioner, putised for the Pulane Judge, Mr.Probably his own fault, very large- have spoken to the other men- SHUNCHUENG,

Boy Scouts Association.R. E. Lindsell.

|ly. Il did not pay to adopt that even complained the committee Hong Kong, Supt. 14, 1933.

attitude towards the world that if necessary. If he had acted firm- Fokis of the firm gave evidence had always been his-the attitudely Marrable might have been abot Late Reports Relieve

to the effect that Mrs. Martin had of the Shrinker. If he had to go shed by now-perhape. ATTEMPT TO PASS paid only one instalment for Fukien Tension.

the through it again now he would go COUNTERFEIT COIN. months of January and February. on the other tack- he could: he

she

Foochow, To-day. The situation here appears to have been rendered more easier by the latest reports that the "Reds" are in full retreat towards the north bank of Min River at Shunchueng, to north-west of

ment Funda,

N. V. Halward

Mra. Martin testified that went to the shop on January 27 jand paid the money to a man who was in charge, and on February 8 she paid that month's instalment. Cross-examined she said she was not aware that January 27 was the

District Watchman Effects Capture.

ACCUSED SENTENCED.

P'un Leung, ал unemployed Yenping. with Government Chinese, was sentenced to three troops closely on their heels. weeks' hard labour at the Central General Tsai Ting-kai, Com-Police Court this morning for ut mander of the Nineteenth Route tering a counterfeit ten-cent piece Army, is transferring his field and having 24 similar coins in bis The Chief Justice said that fur- headquarters to Yenping, and he possession.

ther evidence would not be neces

himself will

NEW SIKH TEMPLE

PICKPOCKET'S POOR HAUL.

Chinese New Year and that there- Boy To Be Birched For

Stealing One Cent.

foro the shop would be closed. She maintained that it was open when she called and a man in charge ac- cepted the, money.

But he was so infernally popular. (Why on earth a man like Marrable should be tolerated, let alone popu- lar, entirely beat him, as it must beat everyone who considered for a moment) He was big; and fat, and easy-going, and had one of those rather comfe high-pitched with fat men. Somehow, when he voices that you occasionally fad

said things in that squeaky volco it was difficult to help laughing- ACCOMPLICE GETS

at first. He had laughed himself, Heaven help him! before Marrable ||| FOUR MONTHS.

(had begun to turn his attention to This own

weaknesses. That was shortly proceed Il, was stated that defendant at- sary as he was satisfied with Mrs. dered ten strokes of the birch by deceitful. He began by being as Chung Ho, a Chinese boy, was or-where the fellow was so infernally there to direct operations. tempted to buy a packet of cigaret-Martin'e evidence. Central News Agency.

Mr. Balfour at the Central Police polite as could be, to a stranger: ¡tes from a hawker in Hollywood Judgment was given for defen- Court this morning for picking the but in a day or two little familiari.. Road, tendering a spurious coin... dant for $60. .

pocket of Ho Tung, an electrician.ties would begin to creep in: at the The money was refused and the conversation that followed was the remainder of the debt, which

Defendant admitted Hability for in Hollywood Road yesterday,

One oant was all be found in the calling you by some absurd nick- end of a week he was probably overheard by a Chinese district had been paid into court. watchman, who followed the man

pocket.

Au Hol, a coolfe, charged with aid.name, and making all the others ing and abetting, was sentenced to laugh at the way you did certain link at the way you did certain four months' hard labour. I

It was too much! At the mere A district watchman Baw the thought of it Fontifex flushed all youth insert his hand in the com-over: he could feel himself getting plainant's pocket, while Au Hot Mr. A: O. Brawn, of the Educa stood close by and screened him. hot right down the back. Did I tion Department, returned from The watchman saited the boy's That was yet another of the many tell you his name was Pontifex? leave to-day, accompanied by Mrehand, containing one cent, as it left troubles that had oppressed him all Brawn, by the as. Kaino Maru.

the pocket and arrested both the his life, since he was a school-boy. 'accused,

FOR COLONY

Demolition Work Begun.d arrested him.

NEW EDIFICE TWICE SIZE OF OLD

Demolition work has been begun! -on the old Sikh temple in Gap Road, in preparation for the erection of a new temple which is to be twice

the size of the old one.

Owing to the rapid growth of the Sikh community in Hong Kong, It

At the police station 24 counter- feit ten-cent pieces were found in his possession..

JUNK SINKS IN HARBOUR.

Crew Rescued By Police Launch.

has for some time past boen evident A Conservancy junk sprang

A

News In Brief.

..

Mr. and Mrs. F. Hesse, with the

Misses N. G. and R. G. Heise, ar {rived"to-day by the Kamo Maru.

that the old temple was inadequate leak while in the Southern Fairway H.MS, Bunolk which was expect to accommodate the continually in early this morning and sank. ed to arriva in the Colony from creasing throngs of worshippers, The Chinese crew of four were Singapore on Monday, has delayed

and the Committee of the Khalsa rescued by No. 9 Police, Launch, her sailing from the latter port for Diwan have therefore decided to which happened to be in the vicinity, one day, and will now arrive in build a new and larger ons, and were taken to the Water Police, Hong Kong on Wednesday next.

The new temple is expected to be Station. .

ready in about six months time.

a

CATHEDRAL FUND.

He had begun to hope that this |trouble, at any rate, would have| passed when he attained to middle age. But that man Marrable had salzed hold of it at once. He tall,

Donations Now Totaled him "Ponty" or sometimes

Mrs. J18, 8. Cooper and her son have bee

$2.240.

"following, donations : to: Bt. "Cathedral Restoration. Fend

880

Black

The old temple was built in 1902 CHARTERED BANK George, who have been away since Sir Willi "by contributions and subscriptions

from members of the local Sikh

early February wisiting friends in and Australia and New Zealand, return- An

community, to provide facities for Declaration Of Dividend.ed to the Colony yesterday by the

public worship by adherents of the

Sikh faith and at the same time to A message received from the Head provide guest accommodation for Offon of the Chartered Bank of In needy visitors passing through the dia, Australia and China states that Colony Since 1902 the temple the Directors have declared an ""buildings have been considerably an terim dividend for the part

larged and improved, and a crema:] year ab ha "tortum added in 1917.

income 'tact

being-in

#Pontifex Maximus," and pretend- ed to receive, anything he said on the subject of Bridge. Cer respect,

to be sac

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