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GREAT FIRE AT WEST POINT. FIVE TOBACCO GODOWNS DESTROYED.

DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $300,000.. Five tobaern goĉeu në, just beyond St.. Peter's Church at Wes Point, have been destroyed by a fire which broke out in the early hours of yesterday morning and con- tinued throughout the day. The damage is estimated at $300,000.

The Fire Brigade praeived the call just after our an. yesterday, and had a most strenuous time for the next twelve or fifteen hours. The outbreak started at No: 374, Des Voeux Road West, the centre one of are two-storeyed godowns owned by the Leung Yick lebuero finu. Fanned by strong north-easterly gale the flames spread Papidly amongst the inflammable contents of the godowis and it was found impossible to prevent the spread of the fire to the buddings on either side. How- ever strong the dividing walls might have been the tobacco to doubt smouldered brok into Blume from the grea: bent engendered in the brick work, even before the building itself was actually involved. Before long, tobacco worth hundreds of thousands of dollars went prematurely in smoke. The contents of the five build

ings wern aglow as though they had been in five monster pipes.

to

harbour.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRISS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2SIF, " 1922

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

BEFORE THE CA'EF JUSTICE (9) WILLIAM

REES DAVIES, K.C.)], DEFRALDING THE GOVERNMENT.

A clerk in the accountants' office of the Police Department. named. Fateh Mohamed was indicted for forgery and frand by which means it was alleged that he had robbed the Government of some thousands of dollars.

Th neensed plénded “guilty.”

WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR"?

SERMON BY THE REY, H. COPLEY MOYLE.

The Bar, H. Copley Moyle, Chapluin of St. John's Cathedral, preached the following sermon at the evening-service

Sunday, from the text. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus. And why is my neighbour (St. Luke Chup. X., verss 99).

It was a wise question that this lawyer had askest Jesus, though he may not have asked it in the right spirit. His question had been What shall I do te inherit eternal life He was concerned with The Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. J. things of eternity. His thoughts were of H. Kemp, R.C.), for the Crown, explained the life of the Spirit. And in eply Qur Lord had referred to the law of which he that the prisoner had been in a position was a professed follower and teacher, of trust and enjoyed the confidence of his What is written in the law, how superior officers. The methods he adoptadest thou and to this he had made. wise answer. He had gode to the root ed in defrauding the Government included of God's law. "Benaswering said, the use of false Chinese chops, the coun-Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with terfeiting of signatures and a great num-nil thy heart. and with all thy soul, and of other forgeries. The method with all the strength, and with all the ber

mind; and thy neighbour as thyself' adopted was to forgo requisitions for Our Lord rphed Thou hast answered goods and later to forge the signatures or right; this do and thou shalt life." But initials of officers who usually approved willing to justify himself, said unto | Jesus, " And who is my neighbour?” In Men representing the deeply Our Lord spoke the parable of the requisitions fendant, it was alleged, later collected the Good Samaritan and at its conclusion, asked the lawyer, "Which of these three, amounts of the fictitious accounts from

ha-Treasury.

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and

On the bodies and souls of ring men? And think ye that, builling ball andare, Which shelters the noble and crushes the

poor?

With gates of silver and bars of gold To have fenced my sheep from their

Father's fold

1 have heard the dropping of their tears In heaven these eighteen hundred

years."

Then the Chief Priests and rulers and

Kings make reply,

O Lord at Master, not ours the

guilt,

We build but as our fathers built, Behold thine images how they stand, Sovereign and sole, through all our

land..

"Then Christ Bought out an artisan, “

'Inw browed, stunted, haggard mas And a motherless girl, whose fingers

then Pushed from her faintly, want and sin These st He in the midst of them. And as they drew back their garment

hem, For fear of defilement. La here," said

The images Je have made of me.'”

thinkest thou was neighbour to him that of self repreach 1 Heré, where the best Can we read tha; poem with no thoughts fell among thieves, and he said be that seats are rented to "those who can afford Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr, showed merey on him. Then said them, should we weleums the poor and The Fire Brigade found it advisable to devote most of their efforts to saving the Lo Longinotto), who defended, said that Jesus unto him to and do thou likewise."outcast as Jesus welcomed them? Thank That then was Jesus, answer to the quesGod, we have at any rate made all our adjoining godowns, some of which also

tion Who is my neighbour " The seats free at. Evensong, we must, hope contained highly inflammable goods. the defendant was 25 years of age

had been in the Government service for lawyer when he thought of his neighbour that if Christ visus He will come to "There was considerable difficulty in gain.

ing access to the buildings at the back as years. Tatil bis arrest he was recog was shinking only of his fellow Jews. He this service and not to Matins,

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did not contemplate the possibility of the lane there is very narrow. from the burning tobieco also tried the i nised as an able and hard working man | seeing a neighbour in the man, of another we make say real effort no help our)

But apart from this House of God, do But Jesus enlarges his ideas, brethren? In this Colony there is plenty freuen very much and wooke helmets had A penitent min. he would most openly nation. considerable danger as the great heat and unequivocally place beiore the Court, and shows him that were one of the hated of misery. Did you see a paragraph in i

be used. The work was attended with

Samaritans could do a neighbour's part. the local papers last week saying that

Let us try to deepen in our minds the

Every year hundreds of dead Chinese, sense of the solemn duty that we owe chiefly intants and young children, a to mankind. Everyone is our neighbour.abandoned by their parents, the chief There are no bounds of friendship, or reason being to save the expense of Church or pation or race to limit the burial. In 1018," the report went on, who needs help is our neighbour. Every meaning of "our Neighbour," Everyone

one who has suffered, who has been robbed and wounded on the great high- way of life is our neighbour. Everyone who has sinned and by that sin hast brought unhappiness upon himself is our Everyone whose burden we Beighbour. can lighten, or whose life we can brighten, le our neighbour, Humanity is a great family in which if one member suffer all the members suffer with him

There are many, who are merely. nominal Christians who are content to The Chief Justice said he thought it avoid the rough paths of life, and to would be convenient, under the circum-Let us remember that their very self forget the claims of their neighbours.

stances mentioned, if he postponed sensatisfaction and comfortable indifference tence upon the prisoner until the next is a reason why we should do our utmost of those who are forced to cast out the

to rouse them to It is estimated that over 8,000 bales of

a sense of their bodies of their dead unburied. And all!. Those tobacco leaf have been destroyed.

case had been heard.

brethren's need and of the opportunity of this is at our doors. These people were which, Inve not beei burued hove breu “Seitence was postponed accordingly. iving good which is offered to them by enduring these horrors while we were apolled by water; The loss, probably

ALLEGED CONFEDERATE INDICTED.

the need ad misery and suffering of the eating and drinking and dancing and $300,000, is covered as to two-thirds with

world. Aboni Santra was then indicted for Our Lord said to His disciples, and it not know. We cannot help seeing some- Ye are the light of the world," gambling. It is useless to say we dif naveral insurance companies. "Mesars. W. G. Humphreys & Co. represent insur-conspiring with Mohamed to commit the is for all who bear the name of Christian thing of the misery and grinding poverty

which are interested to the ance companies extent of $20,000 each; the British Domin-frauds. The allegation was that the to show to.. a selfish and mocking world around us bere, unless we wilfully shut, Tonsnsurance Co. and the Union Trading he undertook to collect the fictitious let na ask ourselves, whether our lives that each misery should continue.

prisoner was one of the intermediates the light of Christian love.

As we approach the season of Lent, sure of this, it is not the will of God our eyes and buryy,past. And let us be

Let- Mr. R. E. Belilice represented the pris are giving the right answer to the ques us remember that, when we say the Lord's. tion Who is my neighbour?!! Are we Prayer, Thy will be done in earth." How For this case (in view of its importance, consciously labouring to ease the world's useless to say that prayer if we are

pain? Are we making any struggle to making no effort torfall it. explained) the Attorney General special jury nad been empanelled. The help the needy, to comfort the sorrowful,

"I know," wrote Mr. Ruskin, "that members were:-Mr. J. O. Hughes (for to heal the sick to protect the oppressel, man) and Messrs. H. Hancock, C. F. G. to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked there are many who think the atmosphere Grimble, F.R. J. Adams, George Hogg, Or do we walk along life'a highway, like of misery which wraps the lower orders the Priest and the Levite in the Parable,

more closely every day as natural A third fire occurred, at midnight on A. R. Lowe and A. S. D. Cousland. Sunday in a gedown at. No. 227, Temple. The hearing of the evidence had not thinking only of our own welfare and a phenomenon as hot summer. But God 'Street, Yaumati. A quantity of spilt been completed when the Court rose for safety, and leave the robbed and wounded furbid! There are ills which flesh is heir

traveller to his fate?

to, and troubles to which man is born; rattan used for making furniture was the day. destroyed but the building was saved.“ The damage is covered by insurance with the Wing On Insurance Company.

twisted the iron roof supports of the. As a witness in the next case, all that) godowns our of shape, and several cor: he had done. It would be clear that the rugated-izon roofs collapsed, bringing the

The sheets of prisoner was upper floor down also.

a victim of opportunity. corrugated iron, after falling, gave much That did not excuse his lapse but it would trouble by diverting the jets of water

appear that the system of the department from the masses of burning material. There was a good supply of water from in which he served was such, that the the mains and it was found possible, also, to bring the fire float into use and get opportunity of committing these frauds an additional stream of water from the could hardly be avoided by a man of any The temptation was The

4.30 am, but intellect at all. worst was over at it was still necessary to direct a continual too great for him and he fell.. The pris flow of water upon the smouldering aner was prepared not only to give evi- tobacco leaf which remained alight under-

give the Government infor- neath, long after it seemed as if the floodsidence but of water poured upon it must have extin-mation for the purpose of preventing a guished the last spark. It was nine before it was thought safe for the cagines and fire fort to be withdrawn and, after that, a squad of men continued on duty spraying the still smouldering embers with water obtained direct from the mains

"

Co. are also concerned.

OTHER GODOWN FIRES.

repetition of this class of fraud. *

accounts.

In the same neighbourhood a small fire oner. occurred on Saturday evening in a hat between two godowns belonging to the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company in Catchick Street. The but was partially destroyed but most of the contents-sugar,

were saved

ARMED ROBBERIES, FOUR CASES REPORTED DURING:

THE WEEK-END.

[BEPOLE THE PUISNE JUDGE (MR. JUSTICE GOMPERTZ)).

DEMANDED MONEY BY MENACES.

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"there were as many as 902 dumped boties, in 1020 there were 638, und in 1921 the total reached nearly the same i figure 841,% yesterday for some reason the return rose to 9. It is a grim list. An unknown Chinese girl child, aged four, was picked up dead in Bridges Street. Another aged one in Peel Street, another aged two in Canton Road, Kowloon, an infant boy, aged two months was found dead in Caroline Road.

A girl of seven added herself to the list by committing suicide by hanging."

destitution must lie behind these figures! What a terrible mass of misery and What terrible privations must be the lot

*

The word is selfish, and often cruel and but the troubles which he is born to are bard, but aro we Christians setting the sparks which fly upward, not as world a good example? We profess.to dames burning to the nethermost hell. be followers of Him who laid down His The poor we must have with us always, life for others, but do we shrink from the and sorrow inseparable from any hour hardship which the Croes entails? Let us of life; buy we may make their poverty be sure that if we never feel that the such as shall inherit the earth, and the Li Shiu-pak was indicted for scading a cross we carry is well nigh too heavy sorrow such as shall be hallowed by the letter demanding money by menaces. for us to bear, we are not really followers band of the Comforter with everlasting Mr. A. Dyer Ball, prosecuting for the of Jesus Christ. If we have never had comfort. We can if we will bat shake off Crown, explained that on January 18th to cry out in the bitteraces of our soul. this lethargy and dreaming that is upon A number of armed robberies have been Mr. Lo Shup-wan was in the Taiping"Father, if it be possible remove this, and take the pains to think and act, seported to the police during the week Theatre when a small boy came up to him cup from me," then we have not yes like men.

Three Chinese shops were entered with a letter. The communication stated started on the path our Master trod. The Lep tis not excuss ourselves for making and the inmates were held up by gangs that someone whom Mr. Lo had befriend world's pain and misery, and shame and no effort by saying we are not powerful of men ranging from three to five ed was anxious to give him news of a sin and want cannot be handled with enough to achieve anything Union i In each case the modus operandi was the plot endangering Mr. Lo's safety. The velvet gloves. If you want to help the strength-a few men and women on fire same. The occupants were

forced into the kitchens and

ocked up there, while the following day, as he was leaving his wou dan voler do, while beu acarily with the love of God, and their neighbours office, prisoner came up to him and said put him on your das, while you can achieve much to ameliorate the gang looted the premises, acquring money, dothing and valuables to the total value he had, writter the letter. The Three trudge over the rough and stony road misery of the world. Let us join those of 31,368. No-arrests have been made. It Star or "Knuckleduster" Bociety, he beside him. That is what Christian sceictice which are working to uplift the is thought by the police that three of the said had arranged to kidnap Mr. Lo and ought to be doing, but are we?

foor and miserable, lebur give a liberally robberies were perpetrated by the same

ever read the poem named as we can to such socisties as the Society gang.

Two of the robberies took place he first informed the, police. When he met the American statesman-poet! It is fall Strays, and to the Victoria Orphanage in Mr. Lo arranged to meet the man but A Parable" by James Russell Lowell, for Providing Homes for Wails and Saturday evening and two on Sunday. evening.

the man, Mr. Lo suggested that they of matter for thought and is better than this Colony. In one case Tse Cheung, manager of a thould go to his house. They got in Mr any sermon I can preach to you. shop at No. 50, d'Aguilar Street, states Lo's car and drove off, but the chauffeur that at 9.20 p.m. on Sunday, four persons knew what to do and took them to the knocked at the door of his shop and said Police Station. that they had been seat on important After evidence had been given the pris business from the Yee Tai shop. On being-foner was found "' guilty" and sentenced admitted two of the men produced re-to three years' imprisonment with hard volvers, the other two were armed with labour. daggers. They forced the men into the

kitchen and stale. $150.

од.

A money changer's shop at No. 12, Austin Road, Kowloon, was entered on Sunday evening shortly after seven o'clock.

hold him for $50,000 ransom,

GOLD PROSPECTING IN AUSTRALIA.

by five men, three of whom were armed, Of the many varied charms of life in with revolvera. The folia were ordered Australia "prospecting dor gold is one of into the cookhouse and the cash tills were the most alluring. It may be enjoyed rifled and 3225 in notes and small change, only a few miles, beyond the boundaries of stolen

the great cities by the sea. Perhaps it is Early on Saturday evening three men true that the average Australian has forced their way into a small shop at ca, learned in prosperity to prefer a bat to Tan Shik Hang, and held up the pro- the pick of the prospector, but there are prietor. One of the men was armed with many eager adventurers still on the trail a revolver and one with a knife. They of surface gold. They are on occasions fecked the victim in a small-room at the enviably successful. back of the shop and stole 8645 from a At Queensland iris the State of Victorią, drawer in the shop.

and only thirty miles from Melbourne,

In

boarded Water Bay: three armed men two prospectors in June of last year, i

an unnumbered fishing bant, crushed even tons of quartz from their cupied by no old fisherman and his wife, claim, and secured a return of 44 of 15 cwt. old couple were caught by the threats of melted gold, valued at £5 an oz. The by two of the robbers whilst the

alue gold was obtained from a ridge 10 inches

cleared the boat of everything of value wide

In addition to stealing a small quantity

of

The yield was the result of four men's

money and some clothes they also took nway fourteen amall Lahing nets, which work for nine weeks. So far, since the were the old people's only means of liveli. hood: The total value of the stolen pro perty amounted to about $40..

erection of a State battery, the party has crushed 50 tons for 9791 oz. or slightlj more than 3 oz to the ton,

Havo

you

"Said Christ Our Lord, 'I'will go and How the men my brethren believe in

Bưu

me

He passed not again through the gate

of birth

But made Himself known to the children

of earth.

Then said the chief priests, and rulers

and kings,...'

Behold, now the giver of all good

things;

Go to, let us welcome with pomp and

state

Him who alone is mighty' and great.' Witä carpets of gold the ground they

sprend

Wherever the Bon of Maz should tread, And în palace' chambers lofty and rare They lodged Him, and served Him With

kingly fare.

Great orgLcs Burged through arches

dim

Their jubilant floods in praise of Him; And in church and palace and judgment

hall,

fi

Let us remember that God is the Father of every human being, and Christ died to save that poorebild of seren who aged crself, just as much as He died for you and me. If we have not succoured the distressed Lazarus in this life we may expect to take part with Dives in tor rents hereafter. Let us make our Lenten observance practical. "To do good, and toʻ distribute, forget not, for with such sacri fices God is well pleased."

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Where pity dwells, the peace of God

is there,

To worship rightlysis to love each other. Each unile a byma, cagh kindly;derd.

& prayer."""

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SCOTS AND THE JAPANESE.

The Japanese business delegation visited Glasgow on January 19th, and were the guests at luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Takuma Dan spoke of He saw His image high over all, the groat influence which Clyde shipping But still, wherever His steps they led, ad exerased on Japanese industrial' The Lord in sorrow bent down His development. For years there had not

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| been a Japanese vessel which had not a And from under the heavy foundation Scots engineer on board. Tlay captain

.stones,

and crew might be Japanese, but one had The Son of Mary heard bitter groans, only to shout "Mac" into the engine. Have ye founded your thrones and room, and a jovial-faced Scotsman would

and alter then,

"

respond.

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