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THE CONFUCIUS' TOMB.

A QUESTION OF EXPENSES.

Cuerov, April 17th.

The visit of Sir Charles Addis here has

The Financial Correspondent of the In an interview with Mr. Kung Ling-Time in New York, writing on March hau, uncle of Duke Kung Terheng who is 29th sail :---- the seventy-seventh descendant of Confucius in the direct line, it was stated that there decidedly brightened the prospect for a were financial dificulties us reported some continuance of the China Consortium." The time ago, in the question of the upkeep of American group, which has been consider the temple and tomb of Confucius here ating it withdrawal from the Consortium. Chufou, Mr. Kung is the official appointed has had new heart put into it and a dis.

by the Government to take charge of the.

temple and total, and is given manually $4,000 for this purpose. The family in terests of the descendants of the Suge are handled by another mcle of the present Duke, aged two, and considerable friction has developed between these two uncles with the result that the one in charge of the relics of Confucius is about to resign his post in protest of what he regards the miserlings of the uncle in charge of family finances.

The Kung family is very wealthy through the immense tracts of land which have been gradually acquired through the gifts of Farious emperors, and the Coverattuna sinon

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solution of the Consortium now seems at least unlikely. The Japanese group,

about which was also some question, has definitely decided, I learn, to remain in

the Consortium. “

1928

HONGKONG „ AND_MANILA TRADE MARKS.

JUDGMENT IN CIGAR TRADE- MARK ACTION.

PAMOTS" PARALLEL OF THE MONKS OF CHARTREUSE,

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STEALING. KEROSENE FROM

A.P.C

HOW A COOLIE RECOVERED "OIL.

FROM CLAY.

་ -Some interesting facts were disclosed at the resumed hearing.. yesterday afternoon, of the case, before Mr. Fraser, in which. three employés of the Asiatic Petroleum

Company and another coolie were charged

the North Point Installation..... with stealing 40 gallons of kerosene from."

The Chief Justice (Sir William Bees Davies) gave judgment, yesterday, in A trade-mark action which occupied the Supreme Court for a considerable time last month. The plaintif was Mr.

At the previous hearing it was stated C. F. A. O. Ingenol and the defendants Registrar of Trade Marks of Hongkong Police, Station, and were Messrs. W. E. Olsen & Co., Inc. The by Sub-Inspector Purden, of Bay View. Mr. Lightburn, was also cited as defondant but that manager of the Installation, for the pro- official took no part in the proceedings.. secution, that the defendants were con Sir Charles Addis told the American

The plaintiff claimed to have acquired handing the oil over the wall about 50 feet group yesterday that the Washington Con by assignment the assets—including tråde-high which surrounds the Depot. Further ference could be regarded as having de marks of an Antwerp tobacco company investigation led to 6 buckets of oil being finitely set the seal of approval on the which had a branch in Manila. The ocea discovered amongst the trees on the hill- Consortium's policy and its underlying pany was wound up in 1905 and the side. principle of the substitution of inter-plaintiffs rights were obtained then. In At yesterday's hoaring Mr. Hall, who national co-operation for competition in 1909, a factory was opened at Mengkok, appeared for the third and fourth do- Chinese affairs. The power of the Tu Hongkong, under the name of The fendants, against whom an alternative chuns (military governors) was waning Orient Tobacco Manufactory," "whether as with the growth in the provinces of a

a separate concern, or as a branch of the spirit of resistance to military exactions. Antwerp business, or as a branch of the Manila factory was one of the questions Hongkong firm was locally registered as owners of the trade-marks.

the establishment of the Republic has also He locked to this spirit to solve the probat issue, in the ense At any rate, the given the family annanual allowance of tem of reconstruction. Foreign interven $2,000. On the other hand the official intion, which always implies coercion, was charge of the tomb and temple finds it impossible to keep, then in repair on the not a practical policy. China muat b allowance granted him by the Government, allowed to work out its own salvation. and is even unable to pay the soldiers de- tailed to protect the memorials to Confucius erected in his birthplace and home. The

guard is limited to sixty men at Mr. Kung

In January 1918, the Alien Property Custealinn, of the United States assigned to the defendant the Manila business of the firm and by virtue of this the defen- Discussing the policy the Consortium tant, e cimed to be the owner of the trade should pursue, Sir Charles said that out-marks. The plaintiff urged that this

signment by side a comprehensive funding lean for the unlawful; and in any cases did not affect the United States was the Hongkong trade-marks. discussed at length the positions of the In giving judgment, the Chief Justice

trade-marks: this semplicated by thi

hy funds to pay them for only half a year conversion of the floating debt, which was and naturally finds it impossible to take any not open to the objection of giving sup further steps towards preserving the temple

that he was very anxious to keep things in excellent repair and in absolute cleanliness, but that it was absolutely impossible to do so with the funds at his disposal.

charge of receiving the oil was preferred, submitted that his clients had no guilty knowledge that the oil was stolen. The charge on this ground must fail. support of this the third defendant, an old coolie aged to years, was placed in the witness-box. He told the Magistrate that he had been in the employ of the Company for the last 27 years as a night. soil cooție, and explained that during th permission to take away the residue oil managership of Mr. Murray he received

which he termed in Court us." dirty. water Mr. Murray retired from the

or protecting the relics of the life of Con. port to one side or another, it was at pre parties in respect of ownership of the employ of the Company about eight years fucius in whieh Chufou abounds. He stated sent debarrel from undertaking Govern-Souity of apprehending the exact ago and he continued to collect the "dirty

ment loans for administration purposes. Loans for constructive purposes were in significance of foreign terms used in water" right up to the time of his arrest. various docummis änd by questions of a different category. In the interest of

It was dirty water that was found Belgian law. united Chinn the uncompleted contracts

As to the assignment by the United in the buckets on the hillside, but as for railways should be fulfilled as soon as possible. No step was likelior to bring States Aline Property Custodian, and as it was allowed to settled at the Polioo the Governments of the North and South its effect upon the Hongkong business Station they were able to draw off the

the pure oil, together than the linking up of the branch, which be described as Canton-Hankow and Peking Hankow rail Justice said:

turning point of the ens, the Chief ways. The time had come for the Con- sortium to consider the question of negot-

The step naturally taken by Mr. Kung was to ask the bead of the Kung family to give some of the money, government or otherwise, held by the family, to the pre- servation of the temple of their common aucester, Confucius. This he has refused to do and has further refund to interest-him-liating independently with the autodemons self at all in the question. All the funds or a group of autonomous provinces for from the government both for the family it- the construction of specific railway under. self and for the temple comes through the takinga within their borders. head of the family and consequently the official in charge is helpless. The money is all tied up by the elder uncle as guardian for the young Duke, and the younger unele as official in charge of torah and temple is finding it harder and harder to keep things in that state of repair which he consider necessary to the memory of Confucius.

This as the point made by Kung, the official, in an interview to day in which he tried to show his desire to keep things up as they should and the difficulties under which he is labouring, difficulties which -have-made his-situation-so-impossible that. he is now anxious to resign. The opinion of the villagers of Chufou seemed to be at on the side of the official, the elder unele holding the reputation" of being a miser, The former was said to be very as

THE CHARTREUSE CASE,

In reply to Mr. Watson, solicitor, who appeared for the prosecution, the man said that he used the dirty water" för This case is covered. I think he the kindling fires. He also maintained that to received the permission of the manager authority of the Chartreuse Case-Boy r.

bonturiër (1908) 277, 76, (mm) 4sometime last year to take away the oil. The case arose out of the manu The oil was passed over the wall because Erging the continuance of the Consor-facture by the Carthusian monks of there was no door through which it coul tium. Sir Charles Addis said that it ie Chartronse of liqueurs by a secret probe taken.

Mr. F. H. Murray, late manager of the- was dropped the policy of sphere of in-cess, and it was held that, although under farne would inevitably be revived with all its menace to the prace of the world. testing for a conference with Mr. Fugles, Sir Charles is going to Washington the Secretary of State.

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from

France

able.

French penal law the property of the Installation, said that he had known the mouks in France became vested in third defendant since 1897. The defend goodwill in England or the English trade away the residue oil, but out from the Lecouturier, that law did not affect the ant was then given permission to take marks. Lord Maconghten in his judg. tanks. The residue was poured on ta- ment snid: The monks were forcibly some waste land composed of clay. The expelled from the country and all their defendant found out that by kneading property in France, including their dis the clay it Fielded a great quantity of THE TRADE IN RICE. tillery and their French trade marks oil. This he scooped into a bucket. Later we confiscated and sold. The partithe old man found out that by pouring culars of the sale The Bäägkok Timex says:-

commercial purport to comprise water into the clay a great deal more

of the menks and oil was forced out, and he was The present outlook in the rice trade in the customers-and-goodwill attached to Burm is not good. The Kangoon (inate the business The two things that belong. collect sugutions in quick Um Break points out that existing prices for paddyed to them, the secret of their manufre remembered on one occasion how he re King of the man's character he distinctly were unheard of in pre-war days, but that turing process and the reputation which norted a leakage in the pipe line, thoagh their liqueurs had acquired in foreign the Burmese producers seem to count on a contiennnce of these prices as a matter

it would have paid him hot to have done of course. Our contemporary thinks they incapable of being seized or confiscated quantity of oil in his well and he at once

countries, and notably in

in England, were

The old man discovered a great

in repair and in carrying out his official ing. Prices, we gather from the article, duties. The point was de by the have been kept up this sason mainly Chartreuse carried with them the seeret extired and a leakage of about preacher of the Christian church in Chafen, because Japan has been buying largely of their manufacture and the power of quarter of an inch was discovered. a great friend of the Kung family that in Rangoon as well as in Saigon and securing the ben ft of the reputation The Magistrate found the first and it would far better for the Govern Bangkok, Out of D1,000 tons shipped from which their skill had gained for them second defendants guilty of stealing the ment to give the funds for the up- Humma to the Straits, Australia, Java, abränd To me it seems perfectly oil and sentenced them to six weeks' hard keep of the Confucion memorials directly and Japan between January 1st and plain that it must be beyond the power labour each. The third defendant-the to the offical responsible for their preser March 18th, quite co,000 tona went to of any foreign Court or any foreign old man-in view of bis long service vation, and he added that the present Japan. Now Japan is out of the market legislature to prevent the monks from with the Company and his previous good offical was an able and honest man, more præ are lower. The rate of export availing themselves in England of the character was sent to prison for four- the weeks for receiving the oil. The fourth than he coul way for the elder uncle for the first three months of the year, we benefit of the reputation which

of their manufacture have defendant was sentenced to six weeks, also handling the Sonneinl side of the Kung read, can be looked upon in norma! liqueurs

years as the maximum on which to base acquired here, or to extend or to com for receiving the oil. affairs. The people of Chufou, one and all claiming descent from Confucius him calculations as to the speed at which the municate the benefit of the reputation to self, hope that the friction between the remainder of the crop will move off. And any rival or competitor in the English

BOYS WILL BE BOYS. uncles may be done away with nod that despite the lip given by the extensive market."

Japanese buying, the export from Burma the official will be given the funds necesita these three months showed a quite To apply this dreision to this case, the TEASING A SHOPKEEPER. sary if he is to continue his efforts to significant drop. Rangoon and Bassein. Chief Justice continued, the trade marks preserve the temple ned the tomb of Con-will, it is estimated, have available for ip question had been registered many Chinese boys are as full of mischief as fucius in a manner befilting the memory export 2,235,000 tons, and of that total years before in Hongkong. The cigars the average boy at Home. This was well of the great suge. It is felt to be criminal not 150.000 had found their way to these admittedly had for a long time acquired Illustrated at the Magistracy, yesterday. for the Kung family" to be rolling in two ports by the end of March. Putting a reputation in the Hongkong market, when a boy was brought before Mr. wealth Lequired entirely because of the the best possible 'construction on the and the assignment by the Custodian of Lindall and charged with dumaging a The bucket maker. gistess of; their famous ancestor while figures, our contemporary calculated that assets in the Manila firm cannot have bucket maker's pan the tomb of that ancestor, revered December 31st will find Rangoon and Bas any extra-territorial effect, so as to affect who has a shop in Queen's Road West, concerned, in told Mr. Lindsell that for the last ten days A between them left with at least the rights of the party | throughout China, is allowed to fall into

€35,000 tons of old crop rice.

Hongkong, whoever that party may be. disrepair-Chung Mei News Agency.

In this country (Biau) we do not have The effect of the assignment was clearly or 50, a gang of boys had been in the the same reliable ferments to base calcu to deprive the owner, whether the plain the hillside on Hospital Road into bis habit of rolling very heavy stones down lations ons But just as Burma's 'export- tiff Ingenahi, or the Societe, as the case back yard. Sometimes the stones would

in the Manilak

in Hongkong.

in his efforts to keep both temple and tom hrr mistaken, and that a debacle 'is.com Exp homer the monks of La Grand pointed it out. The pipe line WAL

FLAGELLATION ON GOOD"

FRIDAY.

A PILGRIMAGE OF PENITENTS

IN MANILA.

A QUESTION OF EXTRA-TERNITORIALITY.

On set a watch for the

able surplus this year is known to by may be, of all interest, in some 400,000 tens more than last year, we to the trade-inia, i tonffect the rights. Con Thursday, he crash into the kitchen. also know that the area under paddy this construction of the Chartreuse case in youngsters and whilst he and a fati were season in the aix Inner Circles and Bianulok is a milioa rai more than last correct it can give the defendant no right sitting in the kitchen, waiting for the season, and 1,300,000 rai more than the under the assignmeus on which his case is daily onslaught a large stone came roli average for the past five years. Japanese accessarily based, to the property in the ing into the kitchen smashing a pan

marks in Hongkong

and causing damage to a bucket. The The annual Bagellation of ponitents ou

buying here too has been on a big scale. After dealing briefly with the question foki gave chase and caught the defendant Good Friday was held in Manila this year. Japan has taken fully per cent. of the the Chief Justice said: There arias the

Since the season opened in December of ownership prior to the assignment, in Third Street. despite objections of Protestant "mis-

Ia reply to the Magistrate, Sub- sionaries. A movement is afoot to secure cent, of the total declared vaule. Forta ownership is governed by English or ally prank of the boys.

total quantity exported and over 24 per question whether the evidence relating to Inspector Watt described the action, as a the co-operation of Governor-General Wood nately the parallel between this country Belgian law. The position is that where The Magistrate ordered the boy to be in abolishing it.

Fifteen Filipino penitents nuderwent further. The export of rice from Bangkok is set up it must be

and Berma cannot be pushed very much a defence on the ground of foreign law given, 10 strokes.

specially pleaded. flagellation this year. The ceremony, which for the first three months of this year bas. The evidence as to the construction is in imitation of Christ's journey to been about "normal. The approximate to be placed on the Articles by Belgian Calvary, was held in the Chinese cemetery. total is 4,905,000 piculs,, compared with law is. I think, so wholly at variance

· SAIGON HICE MARKET. The penitents were stripped to the 3,000,000 piculs in the first three months with the construction, which this Court waist and were crowned with thoras. of 1921, when conditions were still affected would place upon them as to make it

The Compagnie de Commerce and de Their friends cut their backs with sharp by the rice control. The same period in impossible to construe them in the light Navigation d'Extreme Orient, in their knives, after which the penitents walked the boom year, 1910, showed a total of of the law of Belgium, qualified by the report dated Saigon, April 25th:- step by step to various pointa in the 6,203,000 picul; but we get to

Since our last report prices have made some law of England.

The conclusions at which I have arrived a big advance owing to the eager demand cemetery, representing the points of the thing like normal in the first quarters of orces. At each step they beat themselves 1917 (5,762,000 picnus), 1918, (5,091,000 a to: (1) the effect of the assignment from Hongkong. No business worth men with bamboo rods, and at each resting picals), 1915 (6,237.000 picula), and 2014 to the defendant na to the trademarks in. tioning has been closed with other markets 1 place they fell prone on their faces, while (6,910,000 plculs). In view of the much question; and, (), na to the right of the at the present high cost of the commodity. their acquaintances threw dirt in their higger area under paddy the export this plaintiff in the trade-marks make it un- transactions with Europe are almost wounds, jumped on them, kicked them and year has not been what it should have neccesary to deal with the subsidiary impossible, been, but conditions are evidently batter issues in the scourged them with brambles,

ive judgment for the plaintiff on the January 1st to April 15th is 323,720 tons, I than in Burma. Still we too have to At the conclusion of the pilgrimage, each face the fact that the course of world claim and counter claim with costs. ponitent bathed in 'n pool.

prices in downwards, not because there is restrain the defendant from selling cigara period of 1921.

[The plaintiff claimed an iniunction to agiinst 326,868 tona for the corresponding. Formerly many hundreds of Filipinos any decrease in the demaad but, as the in boxes bearing the trade-marks and No. 2 sifted, Japan quality, Hongkong, We quote to-day:-White Saigon rico, underwent flagellation each year, but of Rangoon paper puls it, because for the

from wrongly passing of goods as of the late the custom has been dying out. It time being most countries are too poor to plaintiff's manufacture. He also claimed $8.03 per picul f.o.b, Salgin for April?.. was introduced by the Spaniards,---Router." stand high prices.

damage.

May shipment.

The total amount of rice exported from

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