March 25th, 1922.]
PEAK CLUB. Mrs. Bevington and Mrs. Sayer lost all their matches and scored 12 games.
Mrs. Grimble and Mrs. N. L. Smith won one and lost three, scoring 18 games. Total: 30 games.
GOLF.
LADIES SECTION.
The results of recent competitions are as follow:-
ELECTIC COMPETITIONS.
Happy Valley. Won by
Mrs. Moore
Deep Water Bay. Won by
Mrs. Oliver
Fanling Relief Course.
41-3=38
33 6=27
Won by Mrs. Crawford... 96- 3=93
THE DENIS CUP.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
THE LAW COURTS
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
YAUMATI PAWNSHOP ROBBERY.
A great deal of valuable jewellery was displayed in Court on March 20th, when Li Cheung and Ho Yee were indicted, before Mr. Justice Gompertz, for robbery, with an alternative charge of receiving.
Mr. A. Dyer Ball prosecuted for the Crown and Mr. Chou, instructed by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, defended Ho Yee. Both prisoners pleaded not guilty.
The following were empanelled as a jury:-Messrs. E. C Bell, A. A. Bolton. W. H. B. Muskett, F. A. S. Loureiro, E. Grossman and G. A. E. Musitano.
Mr. Dyer Ball said that this was a pawnshop robbery of a somewhat import- ant and serious nature. The robbery was said to have taken place at night, on February 13th, from the Yau Tai pawn-
Won by Mrs. Adams with the score of shop at 280, Shanghai Street, Yaumati
92 nett.
FANLING AND ITS CADDIES.
In describing the incidents of the night, Mr. Dyer Ball said the Crown was of opinion that a newly engaged assistant in the pawnshop-Lai Nam Po-was in league with the robbers, admitted them to the premises and was the only one not bound up. The assistant enter tained three nocturnal visitors to tea and cigarettes; they suddenly pro- duced revolvers, intimidated the fokis, kept them under guard all night and, with others of the gang who arrived later, went systematically through the valuables in the place and made a big haul. The prisoners were found after- wards in possession of a great quantity of jewellery, identified as having come The new assistant from the pawnshop could not now be found or he would be
Those members of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club who went to Fanling last week- end were surprised to find that no cad- dies offered themselves for employment Some time ago some of the parents of those boys approached the management of the Club and complained of the high wages the boys were able to earn as caddies. It was thought that the boys had become unmanageable at home owing to the fact that they were able to earn more than their parents, who worked in the fields. This presumption is evidently true to-day, when the boys can afford to stay away when it pleases them from earning easily made money. As wil bein_the_dock too.
seen from our advertising columns, the Committee have taken the only course open to them, and members are forbid den to engage local caddies at Fanling until further notice. Private caddies are still doing their duty but as boys at this time may offer themselves for engagement as caddies it is laid down that no new private caddies should be engaged mean- t'me.
Members aro requested to use the course as much as possible-carrying one's own clubs is no great hardship Private servants or caddies may be brought from Hongkong. The Superin- tendent has instructions to see that the above rules are strictly enforced.
BILLIARDS.
Luz, 500; Kwok, 474.
WHITE-CLOUD MOUNTAIN
MURDER CASE.
MURDERER SENTENCED TO 12
YEARS IMPRISONMENT.
Evidence was ther called.
Each prisoner was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour and ordered to receive twelve strokes of
the cat.
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY. Three men who assaulted a boat- in order to rob her (and who woman hal a
narrow escape at the time from lynch law at the hands of a mob) were sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour and ten strokes of the
cat.
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MAGISTRACY,
MOTORISTS' RIGHT TO PASS.
Mr. H. A. Lammert, who brought a summons about a year ago on the subject of obstruction by slow-driving motorists the road to Repulse Bay, had a inilar complaint to make in the Police Court, on Mar. 21st, with regard to Castle Peak Road. Last time the defendant was a well-known police official; this time it was a Chinese chauffeur. The charge was obstructing the roadway."
Traffic Inspector Garrod said that on the Castle Peak Road, on Sunday even- ing, March 12th, the driver of car No. The Canton Times reports that in the
432 was overtaken by Mr. H. A. Lam- final hearing of the 'ocal Court, on March
mert in car No. 391 who alleged that he 19th, Chen Bing-sing (Chairman of the repeatedly asked, by the usual method of Seamen's Guild in Hongkong at the sounding the horn, to pass the defendant's beginning of the recent strike), who mur-
car, which was going along at a very dered his wife at the foot of the White-slow pace. The defendant ignored his cloud Mountain about one month ago, request and went along at this slow pace
sentenced to imprisonment for for a considerable time. period of twelve years. He was also ordered by the judge to pay $1,300 as compensation to the court policeman, whom he wounded when he was arrested in the Yet Wah Hotel.
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Chen declares that he will appeal to the Higher Court.
Mr. H. A. Lammert, in evidence, said that when he overtook the defendant's car
it was about 100 yards behind another car. He gave three "
toots," which was the usual sigual for permission to pass. The defendant immediately increased his speed, but still kept to the centre of the
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road. A man sitting beside the driver turned round to look at him; witness could perceive this through the glass pane at the back of the hood, which was up. On two or three occasions the other car drew ahead of him, and, thinking he had a chance, he sounded the horn. On occa- sion, the defendant speeded up to the other car, but never gave a chance to pass. In Nathan Road, as the road was wide, he was able to pass.
In reply to the Magistrate, Mr. Lam- mert added that his speedometer was out of order, but, reckoning by the time, which was 40 minutes for the nine-and- half miles, he thought the speed he was forced to keep at was between fifteen and twenty miles an hour.
A fine of $10 was imposed.
THE FALKLAND VICTORY.
AIDED BY HONGKONG NAVAL ACTIVITIES.
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Vice-Admiral Austruther, who Commodore in Hongkong during the war, is claiming recognition from the Ad- miralty for the service he rendered at Hongkong which, he claims, brought about the annihilation of Von Spee's Squadron.
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I am in a position to know how Von Spee was foiled," says Vice-Admiral Anstruther, quoted in the China Express and Telegraph. I was in command of the British Naval Forces at Hongkong when
It broke out. business to look after the British Naval defences in the Far Eastern waters and to protect the trade routes between Hongkong and Singapore. I say that we, at Hongkong, stopped von Spee's supplies, and thus caused delay and pre- vented his achieving the object he had in view. All his supplies were at Manila, which was then a neutral por.
"We sent ships down to prevent the nineteen steamers there getting out. We showed the flag outside that port, and they never did get out. The result was that when Von Spee got to the Marchesas Islands he found himself short of sup- four or five weeks before he could get plies. He was delayed something like
fresh supplies. He had to arrange this by wireless, and he had to get those sup plies on the coast of California.
"The consequence was that he met Cradock on the west coast of South Ame- rica instead of on the east, where he ex- pected him. If von Spee had go there even 24 hours earlier, Sturdee would have been too late. I say, therefore, it is rather a poor compliment to say that. Lord Fisher lured von Spee to the Falk, land. Islands merely to destroy him in revenge for Coronel. I think that my command at Hongkong did very real sor vice in stopping von Spee's supplies. I have made representations to the Ad- miralty claiming recognition for that service."
SPEEDY AIR AND WATER CRAIT.
The Daily Mail reports the introduc- into French Colonies of powerful river transport machines embodying the fea- tures of watercraft and aeroplanes, which have proved most successful. The craft is known as Hydroglisseurs. They have a flat hydroplane hull and are propelled on the surface of rivers at the speed of an express train by means of propellers exactly similar to those of an aeroplane. Cochin China Hydroglisseur re duced what takes some days' journey ordinarily to nine hours. On the Niger a thousand mile journey was accomplished at the average speed of 36 miles an hour.
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