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-JORDAN MEMORIAL LIBRARY

QEREMONY AT HONGKONG

UNIVERSITY .'

H.E.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1923.

H.E. SIR LAURENCE

GUILLEMARD.

Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg. the Assistant

THEFT FROM THE EMPRESS OF CANADAS

WITNESS" FOR DEFENCE

INCRIMINATES HUMSELF. -

ALLEGED

CUNNING FRAUD ON THE POST-OFFICE. the Other Administering the SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST

POSTAL HONG-MASTER: Hrs. G. P. Jordan, Festerday opened Government invited a number of resid- the Library established in the Union rats to meet H.E, Sir Laurence Guitte

There was a peculiar ense of alleged 4 cock who volunteered evidence on bei a dance at Government; Bouse! Huilding of Hongkong University, by Sir mard at Paul Chater, as a memorial to the late on Thursday, the 14th inst., His Excel-forgery at the Angistracy, yesterday after half of a young saloon boy, employed ou Dr. (1 P. Jordan, LL.D., Pro-Vice ency first of all entertained the General when Chan Chouk Hing, master of the 8.4. Empress of find who was the Chouk Ke Shop, No. 79, Queen's Rod charged with the theft of a quality of Chancellor and Acting-Vice-Chancellor of Officer Commanding, the Bishop of Wel, iras charged at the instance of the solder from, the vessel, gat himself into the University.

H.E. the Officer Ad. Victoria, the Members of Council and

Postmaster General of the Colony Olr. trouble at the Magistracy 'yesterday, and ministering the Government (Mr. Claud some others to dinner.

s. B, C. Ros). with having in his oa on the instructions of Mr. Lindahll, a Those invited to dinner were:-II.E. { Severa, O.M.GI), attended and later un-i

session certain forged dies with intens charge of stealing is to be preferred Sir John and Lady yeiled a portrait of Dr. Jordan which bas Major General

to defraud the post-other, the said dies against the cook," whilst the charge been placed in the Library Mr. Eris Fowler the Rt. Hon. Rev. the Bishop of

"being" used for the post-marking of against the saloon boy was amended to

that of receiving stolen property. letters. Bice companied His Excellency. Those Victoria, His Honour the Chief Justice; who had assembled included: The Vice, and Lady Rees Davies, Commodore and

Evidence was given by one of the ship's Chancellor of the University (Sir William Mrs. Grace, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Crown Solicitor, prosecuted and Mr. R. watchmen to the effect that he saw the Brunyale, KCMG), Bishop Pozzoni, Hon. Mr. “and” Mrs. Kemp, Hun. Mr.

defendant following a coolie off the boat, the Bishop of Victoria, the Rev. Dr. T. W. Tratman. Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Hallifax,

The dies to question resembled the dies The coglic was carrying, defendant's Rearec, Sir Robert Ho Tung, the Hon. Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, Hoi. Mr.

usel in, the post-office for the purpose of luggage, down the gangway. On one end Mr. A. B. Lowe, the 'Hon Mr. Chow and Mrs. Lang, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. M. Shou so, the Hon. Mr. Ng Hontsz, the Ede, H.H. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Wood, dating and post-marking postage stamps, of the pole was a jar of oil. The theft Rev. H. L'oplay Moyle, Rev. C. B. Shano, Sir William and Lady Brunyate, Hon lining the case, Mr. Hazlerigg would probably never have been discover. Brother Cassian, Mr. AV. E. L. Shenton, Mr. and Mrs. Irving. Hop. Mr. and Mrs Professor K. H. Digby and Mrs. Digby, Pare, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Bird, Hon. Mr. Professer Hinton and Mrs Hinton, Dr. and Mrs. Chow Shou Son, Fon. Mr. Earle, Professor Brown, Professor Byrne, Ng Hon Tsz, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. L Professor Middleton Smith, Mrs. Red Mr. Bernard, Mr. Young, Lieut. Cum mond, Dr. Kwan, Mr. H. K. Lo, Mr. Li Worthington, Mr. Dilley Hall, Lieut. Po-kwai, Mr. Le Cheung-shin, and others, Fisher, A.D.C.

The visitors were entertained te ten and afterwards assembled, with the students. at the door of the Memorial Library.

H.E. THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GovERSKEST said that he had been asked to preside over a innction which, he was sure, was of great interest to everyon "connected with the University and who

had its welfare at heart, This was the

E. A. Webster å defendeil,

Lincoln Bennett Hats

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"HATS AND CAPS

HATS AND CAPS

OF EVERY

DESCRIPTION.

said the dion were a series of numbers, ed had it not been for a light accident. from 1 to 31. They were counterfeit The jar slipped off the pole and was pieces of the type used in the Post Office battered into pieces on the gangway. for stamping letters passing out of the Amongst the fragments was discovered Colony. The defendant was the master the solder, which had been eleverly cover, of a postal hong, licensed by the Posted with the oil in the far. The saloon master General, nad the system employed boy was arrested, Resides His Excellency, Ms. Sesert was one, which had been developed in Mr. C. Polworth identified the metal as having been part of the property in and her mother (Mrs. Bullock), Capt.der to overe me the difficulties raised the store room. Neville, A.D.C.. and Mr. Rice, Private by the inturent inability of many. The cook, who was present on Court, Chinese to address their own letters volunteered the information to the Magis. Secretary were present at dinner.

A number of additional guests were in. The hong-master collects the letters from trai that he gaya the metal to the de

fendant. He said that he "picked it up" his various customers and these are from the deck. On being pressed by the vited to a dance at 9.30 p.m.

The Orchestra of the Empress of made up by the long-master into parcels Magistrate, he at last admitted that he Canada was in attendance at the lance, for the varian districts, where the ad- the metal from the store vorm." Ques

tioned by the Magistrate as to why he and the ball-ren was devorated" with "dressers Eve. The bong-master was not had funteered the information, the hanging baskets of pink and white flow. required by the Post Office to stamp each cook admited that he was a relative of

the saloon boy, individual letter contained. in th

ers.

WAS HE MALINGERING ?

i

last corporate act they would perform in perpetuating the memory of and who, during the time he was in the Colony, did an immense amount to promote the suc HE. Sir Laurence Guillemard leaves packages. What he did was to pare all cres of the University. When he himself received is hongery degree and when for Singapore on the imh inst, by the the package stamps double the value of Dr. Jordan received his, attention was BE. steamer Etra.

those which would be required for the drawn, in mest emphatic terms; to the

` delivery, of a, singis pared parkage of the grent service that Dr. Jordan was called

same weight." He their posted the bundle upen, wost unexpectedly, to perform as neting Vice-Chancellor. Dr. Jordan was

to his agent in Chin, whe was pareshan suddenly asked, during a long vacation,

edo kia where the addresses lived.". to take up the duties and it was thought

The hung-master had nothing, further that perhaps two months, at the most, would be their full period and that then An Indian constable was charged be

de with the package, He simply handed | either the University's First Vice-Chan fare Mr. Lindsell at the Magistracy, it in at the Post Offer. Hy was not 20- cellor would return, or his successor yesterday afternoon, with failing to quired to postanark it or in any way to would be appointed. For various wasons altend his office of duty, viz., drill ptrade obliterate the stamps. that did not occur, and for two and a on the 11th inst half years Dr. Jordan worked in. the: University's interest in so whole-hearted i

INDIAN CONSTABLE FAILS TO TURN DUT ON PARADE.

.........

Mr. Burlinghan Assistant Superinten- ) a ner that when the present Vicedent of Police, proscenti. Chancellor took over the work, instead of

been it

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Mr. Lindsell ordered the mison bay tą he sent to prison for three works with hard labor and gave instructions for the cork to le pharged with theft.

ALLEGED INTIMIDATION OF A CHINESE ENGINEER. PRECOCIOUS YOUTH IN THE

WITNESS-BOX.

disfiant.

*

Gising evidence the small hoy said that he went on board, to deliver the letter on behalf of the first defendant.

Inspector Appleton asked what relation ship existed between the bay and the first defendunt!

The boy replied,He is the hushand of my mother."

The Magistrate He is not your own father?

The boy: He is ny step-father. At this stage the case was adjourned to Thursday morning next.

What appears to be n ense of intimida- tion by members of seamen's club against a Chinese engineer, employed on Sub-inspector 'Picots, necompanied by the sx, Kong Ning, came up for heuring. an "offies of the Past Offer, and armed the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. Assorth, three Chinese being charged Evidence was given for the prosecution" with a warrant, visited the defendant's with intimidating the engineer and also by Alli Babade, an Indian- Peberi finding an institution that had suffered Sergeant-Anjor, he stated that the de premises. The defendant was found in a with having unlawfully in their posses- severely for the want of an active bend.fendant was a reernit with one aud-a-half cehicle standing at a table. He had inston 45 rounds of ammunition. he found the University in a most flourish months' service. He had been doing. the his hand a package of letters addressed, Jr. M. K. Lo appeared for the Erst ing condition. (Sir Williaur Brunyate:

ordinary reernit's course-drills and. "Hear, hear."). So that he was able to attending the pollen school. On the 13th to a consignee in China. On that pack Inspector Appleton said that, according do his own individual work instead of inst. he, reported sick and was

sent to age were a number of used postal stamps to the engineer, ten men came on board the s.. Kong Ning, and asked him if having to re-crect the ruins of what had hospital. He was discharged on the to the value of 64 equts. Of the postal he was aineinber of the Seamen's

flourishing institution (Ap- following day and was warned for drill

The en tok bin he must plans. All that had been said before, parade the same afternoon, at 4 p.m. The stamps were post-marks, indicating that nion.

join their club. Details were arranged but it cæld not be paid too often. This defendant failed to turn up and was the packages had passed through the through the compradore of the vessel and gathering had assembled to commemorate found sitting on his bed. Asked by the Post Office. On the table was another later the complainant handed over $20 another side of Dr. Jordan's work,—a side Sergeant-Major if he was still sick." why! in which he was much helped by Mrs, he did, unt report sick again, the recruit Package de op by the defendant and to two of the men. When the ship ro turned to Hongkong on the tih inst Jordan, whom they were very glad to replied, "the doctor will not have me addressed to an agent in, the country a small boy came on board and said that have present-(Applause). He referred in hospital. He was asked to goin to The package had two Hongkong postage he had been sent with a letter from the to the social side of the University's work, parade and obtain leave from the, Drill which centred in the Union building and inspector. This he refused to do.

No Stamps,

These only bort part of the first defendant for the complaint. The Captain of the ship heard of the matter all that it symbolised, in sport and vari- further action was taken then. On the Hongkong" postmark. In a drawer the and as the result of an interview with ons activities such as a debating society, following morning he failed to answer bis Inspector found two small packages con- the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, In- a reading room and, now, a library. Iname at the Police School. He was possessing such a library-quite apart found in bed, and again said that he was taining wooden dies; these dies formedpector Appleton was sent with the little from the University Library the Union sick. In reply to the Sergeant Major the the subject inatter of the charge. They to No. 350 Queen's Road West, where the three defendants were found Was even more comprehensive than the man said "I cannot go to school, but you dids were 31 in number, comprising a The 45 rounds of ammunition were dis- Unios of the old British Universities van take me in front of the Captain

#group of numerals from 1 to 31. The covered in various hiding places in the and, of course, it was clear that such an Superintendent of Police."

room. The first defendant there ad- The Magistrate adjourned the ense numbers would be required for post itted writing the letter and said that institution as a Union "the "niversity must have if students were to develop a antil this gurning and ordered the de-marking letters on any day of the mouth. he hailisent, the small boy on board with

· corporate life,~(Applause).

fendant to be sent to hospital for further in another boy he found a number of it. This scheme of forming a brary for examination by the Tinctor: The Doctor's the Students' Union was one of the artivi wvidence as to the man's condition will used Hongkong stamps. There were als

soine" unused postal stamps. The Crown ties of Dr. Jordan before he went on then be taken. leave, and it was because he himself was

alleged that in the course of his business auble to complete it that his relative,

the defendant had received packages of Sir Paul Chater, decided to found and graduates as a brxly. Dr. Jordan was a letters which he would hand over daily endow a library as the best memorial of great friend of the students and took an Dr. Jordan, and of his great interest in interest in all their activities. Some of to the Post Office. A number of packages the social side of University life. St. them would still remember his thrilling he would stamp with stamps which had Paul therefore wrote and asked Mrs. tones and his understanding of human or already passed through the Post Office, Jordan to open the library. The library, rows in the address he gave an Armistice and in order to alter or complete the His Excellency remarked, had been care Day. Dr. Jordan wanted Chinese studenta post-mark the defendant would use the fully selected and he believed it was to understand the ways of the West and dies; with these dies he could impress known that the selection of the books was Western learning; he himself was a great the date of the current month. The do eltiefly made by the University's First teacher of Western science and his aim feadant so mixed the stamps on the Chancellor, Sir Frederick Lugned, and was to temper the wisdom of the East with packages that when they were handed in by Lady Lugard, whose great koenness on the learning of the West. It was there at the Post Office the assistant, would all literary subjects was well known. He fore appropriate that this library of have difficulty in remembering which had had no doubt that the books subsequently Western literature should be dedicated to been stamped and which had not. It was purchased from, the Endowment Fund Dr. Jordan's memory: in no better way quite obvious that there was no maces The owners of the .. would be chosen with equal care and that than by studying the literature of West Sity for any assistance in the Post Office vessel trading between. Hongkong and the library would have a representative ern-peoples could Chinese students under to carry out the scheme of fraud. After Wuchow, were summed at the Magistracy, collection of books on every subject in stand Western, thought, and the pursuit the defendant had been detained he was yesterday morning, by the Superintendent which University students might be of such studies would bring a better taken before the Postmaster-General who of imports and Exports (Mr. L. N. "expected to take an interest.

understanding between East and West asked him where the dies came from. Smith) for having allowed the vessel to The defendant said he got them three or be used for the convegance of opium into words of welcome to Mrs. Jordan per His Excellency,

Mr. M. K. Jo, appearing, for the sonally and remarked that the presenceing the Government then unveiled the to him, Don't come here and tell me of the students in large numbers showed portrait.

lies and speak foolishly. What do you defence, said that these prosecutions, The defendant's 3 unless based on special grounds, were that they End by no zienza forgotten tho Sir WILLIAM BEUNYAT expressed the use them for?! great interest that she had always taken thanks of the assembly to Mrs. Jordan, for swer was that he got them to amuse his brought only when the circumstances of being present and wished her on their little boys. The Postmaster was not the case would lead to the belief that Mrs. JORDAN, then unlocked the door of behalf, good luck when she left the satisfied with the explanation and the proper precautions had not been taken the library with a silver by, engraved Colony ner week. Bir William also ax Present Court proceedings were the re by the owner or his officers: It was for the prosecution to altertain the exact with the arme of the University and with preced Lady. Brunyatos regret that, Evidence of the search of the premises grounds on which the allegation of neg- stem fashioned in the shape of a paper owing to the trials of the voyage she had was then given by Sub-Inspector Fincott, fecting to take proper precautions was knife The company then, entered the just made, she did not feel well enough who said when he visited the premises based. The Captain would, of course, zoom in which the new library was on to attend. She was the more sorry to the defendant was in the act, of sticking state that he had taken every necessary to be present because she like himself, a stamp on to a package. Directly precaution, and on the other hand Mr. Mr. Cusan Toon-tox, President of the had personal reasons for being grateful to the Inspector appeared the defendant Smith would assert the contrary. University Urion, mid that the proceed Mrs. Jordan and to her late husband tore off half of a cent stamp. He Called by the Magistrate to state the augh would not be complete until His whose kindnesa mado everything easy for seized, the man's hand and found half circumstances of the case, Chief Preven Excellency had unveiled a portrait of the them when they first and here, as the stamp slicking to his finger nail tive Offer Clark said that an the result 1ste Dr Word in which had been placed in strangers Sir William Brunyata also The witness put it back on to the pack of Information received, he searched the the library a symbol of its dedication mentioned that Bir Frederick Lugard had ago without using any more gam engine room. when the cap on the air and usersion to his memory. Such a been very much gratified to hear that the Corroborative evidenco was given by pomp ww unasrewed, 84 tools of pre- "Dozzunziation wi. Puss.bin cwing to the choice of books made had met with general Mr. Tito Maria Perpetuo, & clerk in pared opium were found, inaldo the sgwcend'y of Ris Pant Chater and to the approved. They were indebted to Bir charge of the posses at the Post Office, pump. The cap was not, sorevad, jon work of the Library Committee They Frederick Lugard for the help he had He described the fraud as cutlined by ughty, appearing to have been recently rwould kill areak of the things which Dr. given the University in this and many Mr. Hazlerigge

retsored and put back in haste, Jordan had done for them sa under other directions.

The case was then adjourned to Wed- (Coptinued at food ng sinus column.)

nesday next

ALLEGED OPIUM SMUGGLING

·SHIP OWNERS, PROSECUTED.

Kochou,

His Excellency then addressed a few (Applause), and the Offer Administer-four-days ago. The Postmaster, then said the Colony.

in the University.--(Applause),

The proceedings then terminated

sult,

The hearing of the case was adjourned at Mr. Lo's request to Tuesday next.

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