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INTIMATIONS

A. G. DA ROCHA..

IS THE AUCTIONEER

A. G DA ROCHA, AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND

GENERAL BROKER Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2933 AVOURED with instructions. From FAVOURE

will sell

The Concerned,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1920.

SINGAPORE DEFENCE FORCE]

ARMED BANK ROBBER MANAGER SHOT DEAD IN LEEDS.

OLD AND NEW IN THE FAST | ee NCTES ON OHANGING CONDITIONS OF DAILY LIFE

by Public Auction, TO-DAY | Hongkong was thought necessary in this with his for hold their hands up. Mr.to take some interest in the fern. Yet the

(THURSDAY), February 5th, 1920,

at 10 P

at his Sales Room. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND

EFFECTS.

AG. DA BOCHA, AUCTIONEER, “ SURVEYOR

"GENERAL" BROKER

AND

CLOTHES AND THE MAN.

COMPULSORY TRAINING BUT

NOT CONSCRIPTION."

Loods was startled on December 11th GENERAL RIDOUT EXPLAINS THE

by the news of a daring bank" hold up

· NECESSITY.

and the coldblooded murder of the bank

'(BY MASUJTRO' HONDY LH.D] _manager: Proposing the first reading of the About three o'clock, the usual.

hour for

Many bills in Europe and America are Straits Settlements Defence Force Bill at closing, preparations were being made at covered with the bracken, the edible the meeting of the Straits Legislative the Camp-road branch establishment of tern called warabi in Japanese, but no Council held on January 19th, the the Yorkshire Penny Bank for securing the Attorney Umeral said that a particular front doors, when a man stepped close up one, not even sheep, eats it as far da "I ly interesting feature was that the bill to the clerk, who was in the act of closing know. If we told foreigners that it is be believed, in the Colony, and took the started clerk backed slowly into the bank. they scorn the idea; if we tell them that, introduced conscription for the free time bands, covered him with a revolver. The 1800d vegetable, a delicacy in Japan, the door, and, telling him to put ap bis

ordinances. The General would explain once covered the manager of the bank, Kakemono pictures to prevent their war- place of a large number of volunteer and the intruder fallowed inside. He nt bracken parte is the best for mounting why a measure rejected for Ceylon and E. P. Outes, and the three clerks Colony. The bill dealt with two kinds of that all should

and again demanded ping, only art lovors among them stoop service-general service and local service, Dates refused to chey, and made a move the first being service anywhere in the in the direction of the marauder. With Great War has taught them to study the Malay Peninsula and the second service out the slightest hesitation the man fired famine tine fogds of all countries. in the Settlement. They had been advis The manager at once staggered and fall experially of Japan whose insular position and shot fr. Oates through the head. Wardrobes, Desks, Chairs, Chest of-that there was nothing altra vires in what he had done, the man decamped world led her to discover many strango ed rightly or wrongly he hoped rightly back dead, and probably frightened stand long isolation from the rest of the Drawers, Dressing Tables, Bookcases, Arm men being called upon to serve outside is not at all clear whether or not be foodstuffs. In America whale flesh is now chairs, Curios, Crockery and Glassware, the Colony. The first persons dealt with attained his obvious object of robbing the being eaten, while it was considered good Brass Ornaments, Vases, Pictures, Ice Boxes, under the bill were male European bank Bedsteads, Clocks, Typewriters Tablecloths, British subjects, who were divided into Hatstands and a long line of Bundries.

two classes volunteers and non-volum passing the bank at the time, beard the population of Japan. on the contrary, Thomas Hodgson, labourer, who was sough for semi-civilized people alone, was until a few years ago. The peasant TEMS-Cash on detery.

teers. The non-vöunteer class included shot fired, and declares that it was follow-who could not afford to eat rice before, everybody not in the Volunteers between ed almost immediately by a second one. the ages of eighteen and forty-one. They He then heard shouts and the sound of wholly or partly discard harley and mif. are so prosperous at present that they can wer called span to register their names, breaking glass' adds that he saw a man

and at once summoned a Jet and then after medical examination they would be enrolled for service in the Dethe road, and noticed up an adjacent to be

about on the opposite side of fence Force. Those under the age of 35 street an old green motor,

The tight-fitting clothes for men seem necessity in cold countries, where Landaulette would be liable for general service. and When he fetched the policeman both the People have to be active in order to keep above that age up to 41 for local service. man and the car had disappeared.

warm Chinese under the native or south- As regards the Volunteers as they were FAVOURED with instructions from already capable of being ascertained no ing the spot he saw a man run from the

Another man states that as he was pass but less convenient

ern dynasties wore looser, more alegant provision was made for them being regis-back and climb on the

the garments while of the moto antered ar medically examined. They car, which was then movin

have long worn costumes more suiting would be subject to the same liabilities. describes this man as being about 40 years after the old Korean and Chinese raiment moving off He their work than the kimono fashione That included practically the whole class of age, and as wearing a three-quarter no his Sales Rocmos, Queen's Road Central of European British subjects. The non-length black coat and a bowler hat The The use of chairs was once introduced into

(Old Post Office Building).

European British subjects mentioned service of the Yorkshire Penny Bank for thousand years ago.

murdered bank manager had been in the culture was in the ascendant more than the Imperial court at Kyoto when Chinese EXCELLENT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Volunteer Corps, and they were liable official.

meant those who were members of the many years, and was a highly respected wooden armchair for Buddhist priests But the large Comprising:→→

to be enrolled in the Defence Force and Blackwood Forniture, Brass and Iron their liabilities were the same. Others gang, but was planned and executed by the peasants and artisans have long used The outrage was not the work of has alone been preserved in the templo

architecture of continental origin. Carpets and Rugs included. were those who offered their one man, singlehanded Tables, Overmantels, SUE Tapestry Covered services to Government and their fact that this man hired a taxi cab from earthen floor or in the courtyard.

Owing to the beaches ar improvised chairs on the. Chairs liability depended upon the terms of a public serge in the city, the police Fictures, of 35 could chim to go into the reserve.

very little difficulty in identifying The incoming of occidental mankind and to be discharged on reaching the age warehouseman, formerly a second lieu tables and chairs, first to welcome officiant of 41. Liability for service had heen re tenant in an infantry regiment. Further and visitors to Court de school the wanted man is described as a cloth foreign intercourse revived the use of thuced to a minimum and was based on what a Territorial had to do in England Height, eft. hair, dark brown; eyes barracks and other public buildings. under the Territorial Act of 1907. This brown complexion sallow: build siam; Much to the regret of these who have seen particulars in the description are circles, then to facilitate life, in school, was twenty drills a year, a musketry clean shaven; single; dressed in dark course and fourteen days camp, and for tweed suit, binck bowler hat, black shoes costumes, the late Emperor of Japan saw the time-bongured impressive Court the reserves twelve drills a year and musketry, couma Persons were liable for

and socks, stiff double collar and tie. it more than 30 years ago to adopt new even years service under the Ordinance to the bank, states that he emerged from occasions, except perhaps for Imperial The taxicab driver, who drove the man uniforms for all public and ceremonial but were entitled to be let off half of the the premises quite unconcerned, and the Hedachold ceremonias conducted accord training if considered competent.

driver's suspicions Penalties bad en very carefully non-aroused. The man was driven to a house, or an Imperial funeral. The real motive were in no way þing to Shinto rites such as the Coronation sidered and reduced to a very small where he remained only a few minutes of this radical step was, we presume, to limit Theatral ides of the-bill-wa Before again leaving

show an example to the people of It appears that when the man entered sbandoning sumbrous traditions and of

shooting the manager, be

· of the

Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2933.

The Concerned, will Boll by Public Auction,

SATURDAY, February 7th, 1990,

at 2.30 1.3

Bedsteads,

+

carpenters, couriers and the like of Japan

But

Drawing Room. Suite. Sctas, Easy their enrolment. Those reaching the age him They issued a statement. In this and the opening of our closert doors to!

Occasional Tables, Extension Dining Bevelled Mirror Wardrobes, Curtains, Bed Sheets, Crockery Glassware, Orasments, Cabinet, Teak Bookcase, Dinner Waggons Dining Chairs Silver a Clocks; Marble-top Washstands, Cooking Stoves Cutlery, Toilet Set, Electric good and a long line of Bundries. Catalogues will be issued. TERMS: Cash on Delivery

A. G. DA ROHA, AUCTIONEER SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER.

Queen's Road, Central, Telephone No. 2932.

that up to the moment the force was the bank, after

Kray

HAVING Een Favoured went on flores lay in the hands of the Governor, ante-room, and, having got then there stractions frem Mr. J. B. SOLOMON, and even when it was called out there fired a shot through the panels of the il well by Fublic Auction on UESDAY was an appeal to the Governor. In door. He then snatched up a bandle February 10th 1920, at 11 AM at No. 15, drawing up the bill the object had been Treasury notes. It is estimated that be Queen's Road, Central, (grouna fear of Astor to avoid any antagonism between the get away with notes to the value of over House Hotel,

civil and military sides but to reconcile £400 THE WHOLE STOCK IN TRADE or THE the two faros and constitute force

HONGKONG HAIR DRESSING

which could be trained to a considerable, SALOON.

point of efficiency.

I ́called oute control of the members of the forced the three clarks to enter a salon Coking wisdo

"line of Sundries.

Comprising:

WISEMAN, LTD.

was balancing

years.

But

ett down the impong old trees in Uenge

zens of the first converts to

it was wib difficulty that Bir Harry Parkes, the British representative at the of Park for an immediate practical object.

time, "prevailed upon them to preserve had been referred to in the

what they could not replace in a hundred and might be recognised by the name of public press

THE FORZION CLOTHES PUUK MAJOR-GENERAL RIDOUT'S VIEWS. ten men pult.' The GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING, in organisation to upset the existing order fetariat, in the wake of the Great War. It was a mowball The coming to the surface of the pro Barber's chairs, Glasses, Mirrors, Electric seconding, said that when he first drafted of things and create chaos for their own may not lead to an immediate change in Ceiling Fans, Deak Fans, Brushes, Comba, the bill in July, 1816, he took the precar ands. It had been heard of in Java and working people's clothes in Japan. Electric Massage instruments, Perfumes oftion to send the draft bill with specimen Manila and then in Canton. The purest in their factory activity and rising wages diferent makers, Teilet Fowders, Ladies rules and regulations to all commanding America was being dealt with drastically affect their general mode of living and Assorted Hair Pins, veilings, Hair Lotions, officers and to residents of the F.M.S.,y expulsion. In Australin also there was on the whole, improve their standard of Eau de Cologne, 7 Borber's Disinfecting as affecting the Volunteer Force of the tered by the loyalty and determination of tual workers who live upon small Machines, Electric Hair Dryer, Show Cases, M.8. The replies he received were a returned soldiers.

a very strong spirit of unrest, only coun life. But the middle class, the intellec Fictures, Frames, Desk, Chairs and a long a whole in favour of the bill as origin

ally drafted. Since then there had been the voluntary basis.

It might be naked, why not continue on

salaries, when prices have become thres ne on time de high, on the average, as before TREME --Cash on Delivery.

many phases of the bill, and the one G... he was strongly in favour of the penses, European clothes for public When he became the War cannot meet their double er they were considering was, he believed, voluntary effort and he continued so activity and Japanese kimono for home the seventh. The matter was one which through 1915. it had been his duty to consider very and Civil Guard Bill was still left open contributions and providing for their When the Reserve Force comfort, of responding to calls of charity carofully during the whole time he had for men to volunteer, his optimism was families at the same time. Their pay been in the Colony, and he would not not fulfilled.. have attempted to suggest a bill of this forces and Civil Guard Bill, 1916, he index numbers of the current prices of Speaking on the Reserve must first be increased according to the sort if he had cot really considered it mentioned that the burden of defence had the necessaries of life, their income-tax an absolute necessity. When the Office fallen on the volunteers for twenty months next reduced, as the taxes on the income Administering the Government arrived and they were entitled to a measure of and inheritance of the wealth' must be

relief. in, 1916 he considered the various ordia that volunteers should, do all the working should also be discarded and reduced He thought it extremely unfair increased. Their double modes of dress ances under which the men of the Colody while in August, 1916, there were some to one combining comfort and conveni- were liable for service and training and hundreds of men in Singapore who had ence suggested that they should be consolidat taken no steps whatsoever to fit themselves ed in one. Since then up to the present by training for the defence of the place.

NEW, BYYLES OF ARCHITECTURK time. they had been considering the ques A new ordinance was made, and a num the problem of our national architecture. tion. The bill before the house had beenber of men who afterwards went home to specially of our dwelling houses, must be Before unifying our national "clothing much criticised and turned inside out. join up told him that they felt they could satisfactorily solved. The experiment of and be hoped later they would hear fall not have done so unless they had known adding one or two. European-style rooms and fair discussion of it.

that other He would like to correct the impression

defence.

men, were coming in for local to a Japanese house, which was fashion- that were introducing He might be considered conscription. Even with such trouble & occursul last buildings, who ball, so as to combino The necessity, he thought, continued Dance Tickets 50 cents each. view on the point, but he could not con organised there would have been, the same veniences-this has also been a failure. able in the upper circles until come years has ended in failure. A few public Juse uniers men were trained and spanne appearance and modern cod- sider that "compulsory training in time of peace was conscription in any sense of chaos as occurred at the Drill Hall in An Ideal architecture for Japan must the word, any more than being called February, 1915. In order to do away with combine good heating mywem for the upon to serve or a jury or compelled to that he asked every man to come forward winter which is possible only in a stone grow food stulla. It did not give the willingly and give the help which he or brick building an evolution from the Governor

thought they were justified in asking cave dwelling of the northern climate an Order in Council could require the people of the Colony to greatest use. The members of the 8.V.A. summer which is a peculiarity of a bird give such service as he might demand and 8.R.E. (V.) had been included in the nest-like cottage of mai-tropical people. The object of the bill was to organise the defence scheme of the Colony since 1888, If the wearing of shoes in the house, in- en so that in the event of an emergency and were counted on to take their place stead of sitting on one's heels on the they would be reasonably trained and case of emergency. Their work at the matted floor is to be generally adopted. outbreak of war greatly relieved the our roads should be improved and made strain on the regulars,

to resemble mud feldes little leas. All

TEA DANCE

TO-DAY (Thursday), February 5th, 1920.

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because ure power than in the pass The work in the past had been of the very and free circulation of the iss

be

Bor

as well as with the curtailment of luxu

With the economiting of the now pros by the new or idle rich, those of perous wage earners and rice gros

ready, as the S.VA. and S.R.E. (V) were at the outbreak of war. The question had been raised in connection with world As regards training under the bill, so this requires much outlay of money, but politics and he did not think they would be wise to say that all trouble had passed.

far as he was concerned it might not be our countrymen, aut be aware that no acccalary to reach the standard laid down civilized community has such wretched They saw telegrams in the newspapers

in any one year. He did not wish to pro public thoroughfare, as are found in speaking of the spread of Bolshevism

pose an irksome burden. It was only a Japan through Siberia and right down to the confines of Alghanistan. Consequently

stern sense of duty which compelled him to ask that men here should be prepared they ought to be on their guard and have and organised. It would be left to the a number of trained troops to meet the competent military suthority to reduce emergency if it arose. The position with the training of any individual the show unemployed who wile away their regard to India and Afghanistan had for ed himself competent. Even with an age with-political or labour agitation or a long time bon a secret and it bad not limit of 35 thouumher produced would be expensive pastimes should be compelled to "been possible to refer to it but the last only 231 men of 235 and under. By the do something more useful or par

extremely small. In April last there were do fortnight, had that was very strong-effort by the Bolshevisti in fuest-middle of the yen's duty of 94 reynd from waghoney-baue-Alf gold, however, the gen

AFTER eloper with India. They had formed home 163 were 25 and under and many a standard of living is rising in Japan, schools at Moscow, Tashkent and other places from which men would come very man had the right of speel been lowering their state consequences: were ex-officers, who were exempt. There through the world as peaceful traders and through ins commanding officer direct to

Tesabed by few occidental na είσαι spread the doctrines of Bolshevism. In

The latter, on the contrary, have CE. WARREN & Co., Ltd. that there was ni organisation, and actual would not think they were being called on those nations will come carer the average doed in this very city it was discovered the Governor. He hoped the younger through the pressure of population, standard of, lúxury through the propaganda which proached open anar out of pure spite it was out of prestandard of comfort of mankind in gen chism, and urred the murdering of all necessity. He was sure they own during a The spirit of tonality or rice to Europeans. This led to the discovery of the war, when the men of Malaya went to monopolise material prosperity at

would als: the other associations through

of Nations China, which (Continued at foot of next column.).

the defence of their country, many laying expense of others

the down their lives (Applause.)

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