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Hongkong, 18th September, 1993.
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By Onler
D. K. BLAIR.
Hon. Secretary.
Hongkong, 17th September, 1943,
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as to how this is to be done. The refer ence to cold indicates that the warning
Bangkok is safering' from a virulent epidemic of small-pox. The number of is of northern origin. It was issued cases registered from the week endel by The World's Universal Religious April 29th, when small-pox first appar Society at Peking. The Oracle wheed, to the end of August, was 391 and the speaks is Mr.TAN HUEN-CHANG, number of deaths, 213-well over 55 per teacher of this Society, and a translation | cent. of the cases registered-an m of a paragraph in the lengthy document usually high percentage, and an "unwol- reads:
come intimation of the virulence of the disease, says the Bangkok Timer."
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struggled to his feet and took out the dagger from the wound. He staggerock along the road towards they knitting factory and there he enllapsed again, He was taken into the French Bospital, which was fortunately nearby, where ha was attended by. Dr. Strahan.
Evidence for the Crown was there called.
The Indian in the box in reply to 16 question by the Chief Justice said he did not know whether the prisoner, ar „ong of the other two men stabbed him or not..
During last week the following cases of notifiable disease were reported to the
Dr. Strahan, giving evidence,' said he Medieal Officer of Health: Plague, 1 caso operated on the Indian at the Freach. 3 deaths smallpox, 7 cases, 4 deaths: huspital on July 28th, He had a wound diphtheria, 1 casenteric fever, 8 eues, in the upper part of the abdomen. 16 3 deaths, paratyphoid, "I case: cerebro-was three to four inches deep and the spinal fover, 1 case; puerperni fever, 1 liver had been pierced. He was suffering death influenza (not notifiable), 5 fram an internal "heniorrhage. A weapon deaths. All the cases were Chinese with (like the one produced in, Court the exception of three Portuguese cases triangular shaped dagger) could have of enteric fever.
enused the wound.
Asked by the Crown Solicitor if the wound guild have been caused by a man standing at arm's length witness said he would uit like to express an opinious but he did not think it could have been caused by a man standing behind the
With reference to the nilvertisement in another column, na to the collection of second-hand clothing, at the City Hall, for despatch to the devastated areas in Japan, we are asked to state that a very gratifying response is being made to the Indion. appeal for this form of assistance and the Ladies' Committee which has the arrangements in hand has already re-wricusly wounded I don't think he veived considerable supplies. It is de would have lived if he had been taken sired that gifts may reach the City Hall to the Government Civil Hospital (menn-· hy Friday morning in order that Saturing if he had had to go that distance). day may be free for packing..
!
The Crown Solicitor: War the man
3r. W. M. Pittindrigh told the Court that the accused had been employed to The new Hongkong and Shanghai Bank drive, his car, which he stored at the premises at Tientsin for which the site Hongkong Hotel Garage, Russell Street,” is, now being cleared will occupy a pro. His remembered seeing the defendant at atinent position at the corner of Victorin the garage on or about the 23rd July but and Consular Roads. The main building he could not say for certain. The accused had told him he was sick. Cross- covering 23,000 square feet will bo
this point the witness three-storied edifice consisting of ground, examined on mezzanine and first floors, the entire said he could act say whether it was ground floor and part of the mezzanine the evening of the 20th that he him.
Directers and Statement of Accounts to 31st hell in the CLUD HOUSE on SATURDAY, | Messrs. Macdonald & Muir one examine it carefully, so that before being occupied by the Bank. The build. There was mithing special to impress the
purposd of presenting the Reper of the
July, 1923.
the 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1913 when the follow- THE TRANSFER LOOKS of the Changing Debentures were drawn for redemption: will be CL SED from 27th September to ach Octoler, 1923, both days inghite.
By Orler,
M. MANUK.
Secretary. Hongkong, 19th Septernier, 1925 (1927)
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Shamshuipo CROWN LAND at
is the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from the 1st Jaly, 1888 with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Sarveyor of Hu MAJESTY THE KING. for a further term of 94 your three days.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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By Order,
A. H. ABBAS,
Secretary Hongkong, 8th September, 1923, „ [1991
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.
HONGKONG RELIEF FUND,
NOTICE.
SUPPLIES OF SECOND-HAND
CLOTHING.
A SPECIAL COMMITTEE of Local
Ladies under the Presidency at Mr E DC. Worz has been formed for the purpose of receiving and hauling over to the Relief Committee for despatch to the Devastated Areas in Japan Parrel of Second-hand European Clataing of
of all descriptions for Adults and Children...
The Committee will be in attendance at the CITY HALL Daily from MONDAY, 17th INST., to SATURDAY, 22x5 INST., between 11 A.M. and 12 NOON.
Parcels sent by messengers should be ad- used to the Japanee Earthquake Disaster Hongkong Relief Cothmitter.
By Onler,
D. K. BLAIR.
Secretary, HONGKONG RELIRY COMMITTEE
[1303 Hongkong, 12th September, 1923,
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER.
"HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.
NOTICE.
UBSCRIPTIONS LISTS for the above Fand are open at the following places - HONGKONG GENERAL CHAKBER OF
COMMERCE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION. CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRA
LIA & CHONA.. MERCANTILE Barg or India. INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORA-
TION.
NETHERLANDS TRADING SOCIETY. YODHAMA SPECIE BANK. HONGKONG CLUB, Cheques should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earthquake Disaater Hongkong Belief Fund.
By Order,
D. K. BLAIR,
Secretary, HOXELONG RELIEF COMANTTIE Bangkong, 10th September, 1923.
NOTICE.
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(1920
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Kir teacher, has said that thery will come upon us a great Earth quake,
Sun au Eclipse of the startling noise, shooting stars, tidal waves, violent winds and snow, hail, bitter cold, and thunder, the like of which has never been experieured, since the beginning of the work. These will come all in a moment; in a word, this will he an accomplished fact after the 15th day of the 8th moon (September 23th). For five nights there will be no light either of the Sun or Moon for all the people of this Earth, and it will become a world of black darkness. Some third of the population of this Globe will perish. You have previously been notified of this by ME. TENG SHAO-YEx in the 6th general letter, and I trust you have taken heel. Alas, it is vast and undefined, has an sverwhelming and pitiable calamity
1 When I think upon this, though warm am seized with trembling. Alas, y brothers, though Heaven and Earth are Fast, whether I look up or down there is verily no place of refuge! But our teacher's instruction is for the purpose of saving "the World: when the calamity- comes, it is those who believe who will survive, certainly not the unbelievers It is impossible to estimate the number of those who will perish, as a result of this tremendous catastrophe. I am there- fare proclaiming a kind of universal plan of escape for all the people, so as to save my innocent brothers. This plan is given below, arranged in several clauses, and I hope that you, my brothers, will each" the day you may be prepared, at the escape the great disaster."
The date of this document is given as August 11th, 1923 (H. 3923 years after the Lord). This was before the great cataclysm in the region of Tokyo and Yokohama, and that fact has doubtless inescased helief in the prophecy. The universal methad
The police at Shanghai have prosecuted of escaping" is set nut in sixteen-para- the Tramway Co. for allowing the cars graphs which are such a jumble of incon- to be overcrowded. Mr. McColl, the
General Manager, in his evidence said ing. sistencies that it is incredible that any
he did not agree that the maximum nunu- logically-minded person can give the least ber of passengers fixed by the Commis- sioner of Police was reasonable. It at encouragement to the propagation of the this stage he did not consider it desirable warning. Yet missionaries, who report to state a maximum. The main point, be CORROSIVE FLUID THROWN, AT"A", that the prophecy has deeply stirred the thought, was that, pending extension of credulous populations of severat pre-should be carried on the tram-care, so the service, as many people as possible
Lai Wing pleaded guilty" to 2 long as they did not occupy the platform charge of throwing corrosive tluid at a. or steps, to meet public convenience. It girl. was difficult to suggest what the maxi- Mr. Ayer Ball, appearing for ti tion and that the people busy printingmum should be under present conditions." Crown, said the accused and another mare the literature are of the local gentry type.
engaged a sampan at Appliekan chothe It is added that "there is in their minds
evening of August 9th to take them to Aberdein On reaching Aberdeen the some remote connection with Christian-
prisoner was said to have made amorous - proposals to the girl in the boat, lent the anggestion was apparently turned down. He then threw something, out of In bottle into the sampan and the girl got Her some of the finid on her forehend erie brought a Chineté constable to the seone who chased the prisoner and arrest. Analysed by the Government Analyst and ed him. The liquid had since been. found to be sulphuric acid. Fortunately, the girl was not seriously injured.
vinees, say that the propaganda appears
to have a certain amount of official' anne-
A filter employed at the Garage sail that the instrument with which the Indian was alleged to have been stabbed was similar to instruments commonly used in the garage for the purpose of scraping the ball bearings of cars.
ing will be faced externally with Thing-date on his mind. tau granite. It will be set well back froin the Consular load, a stand for brokers vehicles being formed between the build ing and the public thoroughfare so that the road will not be obstructed at any time. The building has been designed by Mr. B. C. G. Burnett of Atkinson and Dallas, Ltd.
+
In the course of the hearing it was stated that the number of passengers carried on the tram-cars bad grown from 11,000,000 in 1900 to 126,000,000 in 1922. The Magis It was an important case, he said, and might possibly go to a higher Court.
BIRTH. GUIGSARD.-At Shanghai, on September
13th. to Mr. and Mrs. Enyis M. F.ity." This indeed is suggested by thetrato postponed his judgment in the case GGIGNARD, a HON,
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Shanghai, on PATERSON-FEIROS-At
September 12th, ROBERT JARDINE PATERSON, to ELSA BURGESS FEARON.
Hongkong Office: 1, Chater Road. London Office: 131, Fleet Street, EC.
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The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 15TE, 1993.
document itself, by its reference to things "beyond the scope of man's devices, and subject only to the authority of Go The propaganda, has been forbidden by the police authorities at Peking, appars ently because it is believed to have some | political significance. At Shanghai the Director of the Siccnyci Observatory has been receiving daily so many letters and visits relating to the prediction, and "the emotion caused is so real and
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deep" that the Observatory authorities have felt it necessary to ask the Press to pac its influence among the enlighten ed Chinese and others to put an end to such a nisunderstanding that could become dangerous to the general pence.' The Observatory have published an explanation in Chinese and distri- buted it as a counterblast to this per nicious propaganda, but we suppose that the credulous and the..superstitions will only cease to believe in these uricular
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. [BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP THE CULES JEETICE
(SIR WILLIAM REES DAVIES)]. CHARGE OF STABBING AN INDIAN
MONEYLENDER.
When ant charged with the stabbinge- the accused madoa statement to the effect he had, heen sick since the 20th July and... that he was sick on the 28th July (the day the stabbing took place).
The case was adjourard until this morn..
FOUR HIS HONOUR THE PUISSE Jeñar (MIL. H. B. J. GOMPERTZ)]...
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His Lordship asked whether the neïd was capable of causing her harm if it and get into her eyes for fristene f The first case heard before the Chief Mir Dyer Ball: The Dector has said Justice was one in which Li Sing Ching, it probably would have blinded her tard.
x-motor-car driver in the employ of it and her eyes. the Hongkong Hotel Garage, was indleted for wounding Pala Singh, an Indian life Yes, watchmen in the empley of Mestre. A. S. Waton & Co., and described as a money- lander, on July 28th last.
His Lordship: The fu penalty is
offence.
His Lordship: It is t Tery serious
The prisoner was then sentenced to The Crown Solicitor (Mr. II. K. five years imprisonment with hard' Holmes), prosecuted, and Mr. Campbeli labour. Prosser represented the prisoner,
PANIC-MONGERING IN CHINA, Is a letter we published the other day, a correspondent made in appeal to the
authorities public
to suppress the "scare mongering "indulged in by the Jocal Chinese Press, which is having a terrifying effect on the population. We had thought that locally the sense of terror had been succeeded by a sense of the ludicrous, hecause the day which it had been foretold would be a "day of utterances when Time uts conclusively and the prisoner had carried on money Terry and some Chinese constable in a
In
proved their silliness and utter falsity.
The agenda of the Legislative Council for to-morrow includes four Bills for first reading and four for second reading.
The Jury empanelled for the case were: Messrs. Henry T. Palmer (fore man). Lia Chung Hung, R. M. Alarakia, Ng Sz Kong, C. H. Omund, B. V. Valence and Hung Hing Fat.
The Crown Solicitor said the Indian
transactions over a period of three years.
COUNTERFEIT COINS:
...
A Chinese was indicted for making for being in possession of counterfeiting infruments. counterfeit coins and
Mr. A. Dyer Ball, for the Crown; zaid the prisoner. "was arrested by Sergt...
These
calamity for the Colony (September 11th)
so that there could he no question of house on the Kowloon City Read, un ho passed without even typhoon, and
failure on the part of the Indian to afternoon of August 17th. Primer di recognise the prisoner. The Indian ab not hear the Sergeant enter. He was several days have passed since without the least sign of impending doom.
tained judgment in the Summary Court seated at a table and not being aware of". against the accused for the sum of 8127 the chicer's presence, he went on scraps this fact, the superstitious might
in August, 1022. the judgment providing ing out a plaster mould with a piece of for the payment by instalments of per bent iron whilst Sergeant Terry locked" have found reason to smile over their
A quantity of counterfeiting ap credulity which had thrown them into a
At that time the Indian also on The Colonial Secretary desires it to he month. state of alarm and preparation, by wore known that persons wishing to hand in sued for the recovery of 950 on a pro-paratus, some molten metal and some in-
pieces and". arms in their possession may, if they so missory note, but in that case he was non- Enished coin-one cent slip for the end of all things." But
wish, send them to a Justice of the Prag united. Since that time the accused had described as extraordinarily bad imita possibly there is a lingering doubt in for transmission to the Police Depart paid three instalments up to the 25th tions were found in the room. many minds as to the utter silliness and ment.
July 1921 the afternoon before the were taken possession of by the polies and stabbing. On that day he saw the secus used as exhibite in the cas Jalsity of the "prediction," if it is
A verdict of guilty" was returned At the last quarterly communication of standing outside the Wanchai Garage, "CYCLOPS from U.K. ARRIVED 8/11/16 generally known among the Chinese that the Grand Lodge of Scotland, among They had a conversation and the pris and aceused was entenced to the years.
wherever else in China this ridiculous those introduced as visitors were Dr. oner arranged to meet the Indian at his hard inbour. Y
The Jury were: Messra P. J. Penster RDG 1/13-13 casks Silicate of Soda, tale al woe is propagated the date for George D. R. Black, District Grand quarters near Bay View Police Station
its fulfilment is the 45th (and not, as the Master of Hangkong and South China, at 8 am on the 20th inat. to discuss the (foreman), A. H. Potis, J. E. Ollerton, and Mr. Brodie A. Clarke, District Grand payment of the instalments. The pris A. Young, W. Weir, T. Arnold and local legend had it, the 11th) of the Master of North China, Grand Master the oner did not keep the appointment, and P. M. Remedies. footnote to our correspondent's letter, it
As we remarked in a Earl of Elgin invited them to seats on the at 8.30 a.m. the Indian started to walk pienent month..
towards town, along the Shaukiwan Rend, when he saw the prisoner on a is not only in Hongkong that credulous. The Canton Daily Yeux says: tram going towards Shavkiwan. The Chinese have been alarmed by these so- Through train service of the Canton Indian called to the prisoner and he Two other eafled propbetic warnings. They are just Kowloon Railway, which was suspended alighted from the car. as widely circulated and believed in one time ago to Indian appeased to be somewhat angry on account of military Chinese descended at the same time. The
A merage bas been received by the Shanghai Peking, Tientsin, Hankow, resumed shortly. According to news obat his belated appearance and the accused. and indeed, throughout North China, stated from the Railway Administration, said: "There are a lot of people stand Harbour Master (Commander C. W. they are in Hongkong, for the warning, this service will probably commenés next ing about here; come along this way! Beckwith, R.N.), from the Comodoro They proceeded along the road leading to of the Nerul Yard to the effect that the which is addressed to Brethren of all
Tai Hang village, the two men who also H.M.S. Taranty has reported that the Nations under Heaven;" announces; the By the accidental omission of a line of got off the car at the same time as the 5.8. Song Gilang has gone aground at the
Complainant S.E. end of Chang Island, impending destruction of one-third of they from the report of this proceedings nocused, following them.
of the Japanese Earthquake Disaster and accused discussed their money trans The verso! belongs to Messrs. P. A. human race. At the same time the docu-Rlic Committee, in yesterday's paper, actions for some time and while they Lapicque & Co. and is engaged on the ment proceeds to set forth a universal it was junde to appear that the Committer were standing near a nullah two Chinese Haiphong Canton run. She is a vessel of
shipments enne from the direction of Tai Hang about 1,00 tons, method of escaping in the time of grent had already expended on
On making enquiries at the local office $257,000. The sentence should have read: The Indian turned his head to watch calamity. People are bidden to be the amount so far expended on ship them go by and as he did so he was of Messrs. Lapioque & Co. yesterday wo prepared for, the avoidants of "bunger, hvis stabbed. Wo tell to the ground and ze were informed that the vessel had been first and cold," and directions are given hand of $437,000.!!
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