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PLUCK REWARDED.

PRESENTATIONS AT POLICE

"HEADQUARTERS

SUMMARY COURT

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2018,

A QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP.

The question of which of the two parties

The plucky nets of twu civilians in was trying falsely to claim a large con-

ben bare octing the capture of two men who hadsignment of bamboo poles, was as inue

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attempted an armed robbery in Chatham in a case which came before the Puisne Romt, Kowloor, Inst April, receiver Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) in the Sun ocial recognition and reward at Pokretary Court yesterday. Headquarters yeaterslay, in the office of Before His Lordship, Lo On claimed the Captain-Superintendent of Police, on possession of 1,271 bundles of bamboo the occasion of presentation i made in stated to be wrongfully detained by Ho Mr. F. J Focken (uf Messrs. Alex Ross Chuen Kee. These hamboos were stored a plot of land owned by the Tang Co) and Mr. Li Chi Kong. Those prescut in addition to Mr. P. Cheong coal firm at Yaumati, and both J. Wodehouse, C.I.E. (Captain-Superin parties claimed that they had bought the tendent of Police), who made the presen- goods. tation included Mr. T. H. King (Directan of Criminal Intelligenes), Mr. D. Barling hani (Deputy Superintendent of Polico), Mr. L. H. Y. Bouth (Assistant Director of Criminal Intelligence)," Mr. W., R. Scott (Assistant Superintendent), Mr. J. Kerr (Assistant Superintendent), und Mr. W. Kent (Chief Inspector).

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Mr. H. S. Fitzroy was for the plaintiff and Mr. D. McCallum was for the defendant.

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In the witness box. La On said that he came to Hongkong on May 20th with consigument of bamboo poles. He stored them through the defendant on the plot of land at Yaumuti. He denied that he was employed by defendant to purchase the bamboo at Heungshan.

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Mr. A.P. T. Wodehouse said "Gentle men. I have been instructed by His

Another witness, Li Fuk, stated that Excellency the Governor to make a small presentation to Mr. Focken and Mr. I met Lo On soon after his arrival. Lo On Chi Kong to show the appreciation of the told him that the hamboos were his pro- flovernment of their services in arrest,perty and said that he had paid just over ing two armed robbers on the 21st April." $900 for them and still owed a little more The C.S.P. then road the official than $100. Witness informed the Court account of the circumstances of this in- that he paid the rent of the plot of land cident as follows:-"Mr. Frederick John for the first moon.

Cross-examined: He went with defend William Focken, of Messrs. Alex Ross & Co., with his assistant, Mr. Li Chant to pay the rent.

Mr. McCallum: Why is the receipt Kong. happened to be on the point of alghting from a motor bus outside the the name of Ho Chuen Keet-Ho Chuen China Motor Bus Co.'s premises when Ree said that the rent receipt had been they heard police whistles being blown torn up by his little boy. some distance down the road, when Mr. Forken's attention was drawn by a passer, by to a man who was attempting to board

a bus going in the direction of Hangbom Railway Bridge Mr. Focken seized thir

Who paid the rent for the second month --I did not pay.

Another witness who was previously in defendant's employ denied that he had

A MONTH AGO,

CHINA IN THE NOUSE OF COMMONS.

MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.

THE SON OF HEAVEN

A CHINESE CRITIC ON MR.LYTTON STRACHEY'S PLAY.

Mr. Lytton Strachey melodrama of the Boxer Rebellion." The Son of. Heaven roducent at the Scala recently -has provoked "F. Trung Hu

cathing comment in the server.

Hu's letter is as follows

to some

In the House of Commons on July *mi Mr. Austen Chamberlain, replying to Mr. Day (Southwark Contral; Lab) said

My latest information shows the general situation in China to have becaue some

Dear Sir, Humbly I ask the shelter of what more satisfactory since I made my columns of your flourishing newspaper in last statement upon it in this House, ononder to proclain my unworthy critics of June 19th

the performance at Scain last Monday of the Son of Heaven play by Mr. Lytton Strachey. I was very much interested spectator, but, as Confucius said, to not be willing to enquire is like painting elephant without trunk." It is great pits eminent writer as Mr Strachey did not think it to consider the, rules of propriety and inquiry concerning historie persons

Western writers can write that kind of being to recently known and dead plays because merely for the sake of the worthy iden embodiment, bat unfortunate

Within the last week no further serious disturbances have been reported from any of the ports, while the strike movement at Shanghai, Nanking, and elsewhere shows signs of weakening. The boycott movement, on the other hand, is gradually spreading, with the aid of bands of students, who travel through the country on free railway passes-provided by the think with utmost difficulty is it the Son of Beaven there is a worthy Chinese Ministry of Education. Teking possible in that case to find out how in itself is now perfectly quiet, and aides sadly mixed up with fanaurate monster student demonstration planned verisimilitude.

But it is and thing to see authentic a failure, British for July 15th was

historic persons recently known.not acting women and children are, however, being truly. Is it clever, I ask, to make con- gradually evacuated from the province of cubine of Son of Heaven kill general Szechuan, where the position of foreigners everybody knows died truly three years is made more dangerous by the clash be subsequentlyt Also reformer Kang did not behave like Lyceum melodrama villain. Scenery and dresses are very interesting At Canton the situation remains the from modern European art view-point, tween rival military factions. same. His Alajesty's Consul-General there only appear absurd and misleading like does not apprehend a further attack on musical comedy style. Now, suppose Shameen, the foreign concession, but the contemporary Englishman witnessing play Canton authorities, who have refused the by eminent Chinese writer on English mediation of the Central Government, of modern historic persons like Queen which they have re-affirmed their complete Victora during Boer War time. What is independence, have renewed their previous his feeling if he sees Chinese writer has demands for the retrocession of the con-invented a story something like this kind: cession, and the withdrawal of all the for-President Kruger is in love, with English eign warships

lady-to-waiting and makes to kill General

In the north of China, Marshal Chang Kitchener. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain is Tso Lin is still in Ticntain, but is expected melodrama villain and hides behind as to leave there shortly for Makden. His pidistras in Buckingham Palace conser. rival, General Feng Yu Hsiang, who has ratory 1 He will think unnatural to be- adopted an anti-foreign and particularly hold President Kruger and Lord Kitchener

nun, who attempted to escape, and hand to swindle Ho Chuen Kee' out of the to prevent the transit of British goods or 18th century, soldiers and ministers i

ed him over to Mr. Li, who had at this time been jained by two other Chinese who helped to hold the prisoner Mr. Focken's attention was next drawn to

a muận who was riding in a ricksha going in the direction of the railway bridge Soine three hundred yards away. Mr. Focken boarded a passing bus, and, alighting when the bus was passing the ricksha, seized this man also, and, with

knowledge that the plaintiff was trying

bamboos He said that the reason he left the defendant's employ was, because Ho Chuen ebeated two men of a quantity of bamboos in one month.

anti-British attitude, has just given orders would be dressed like fancy dress of 17th His with some costume of all periods hired from Mongolia through" Paotow, Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires has entered at Mr. Clarkson and the ladies-in-waiting a strong protest against this hostile act like early Britons. I think contemporary I may mention that the ease of the Englishman will laugh very much and Russian agitator Dosser as to which in could not believe there is uncontradicted quines have been addressed to me by beauty in the idea. If you will, please, various members, has now ended in a as I crave, forgive unskilful pun: air, dismissing the actual charge against him too much. judgment of the Mixed Court at Shanghai Strachey has stracherd the point perhaps

certificate from the Soviet authoritica totumbly I communicate my accumulated be genuine, and ordering him to be exfeelings of respect and your virtue in- able. On July, 13th, Dr. Eurtunatoff, pelled from the settlement as an undetit creases and is renewed daily.

the help of a by-stander, handed himdays later and said he had lost the medical officer to the Soviet Consulate

General, at Shanghai, was arrested in the act of tendering $10,000 to a detective who had been asked to state that he had

Defendant, in the box, said he had spent forty years in Hongkong and for forty-one years he had been a dealer in bamboo and bamboo by-products Plain for lack of evidence, but declaring is tiff entered his employ towards the end of April and on May and he gave him $500 to go to Heungsbau to buy bamboo on his hehalf. Plaintiff returned some accounts and receipts, bus added that wit- over to two Indian constables. The first mess owed him 870 which he spent in man arrested was later found to be in excess of the 3000. He said he had to possession of a revolver, while the secondi par, $20 to the Yip Yee Tong, a robber forged Dosser's certificate."

gang Later plaintiff sent a man to take away some of the bamboo, but witness told him that not even the most influen- I am in communication with the other tial man in the Colony could touch his Governments concerned as to the settle bamboo. The matter was reported to the ment of the questions arising out of the police and someone suggested that he collision of May 30th between. Chinese give the plaintif about a hundred band-rioters and the Shanghai municipal police. les of bamboo in order to make up for The one concern of His Majesty's Govern- the $70 which Lo On had paid out of ment in this matter is to see that justice his own pocket.

is done to all parties th

RESULTS OF INTESTACY.

He was WHY YOU SHOULD MAKE YOUR

WILL.

brought before the Mixed Court and re- manded on bail.

THE KING AT GREENWICH. OBSERVATORY'S 250th BIRTHDAY.

[DY A LAWYER.1

There are two reasons why anyone with anything to leave "should make a will Firstly, no one is immortal Secondly, the results of intestacy (dying without leaving a will) are frequently quite differ ent from those the dead person had ex pected or intended.

"Ob, there is only my sister," the writer used to hear sa old bachelor friend "of course she will inherit every. MAY thing. I have no need to make a will. She is my only relative."

was in possession of some strings such as are used for binding victims. Later, on the information of the first and second defendants, the third defendant was arrested by police in a house at Stanley. The revolver used by him was sub quently recovered by the police in a side channel on the railway track about filty yards from the railway aheda at Hunghom where he had dropped it dur- Questioned by His Lordship as to the ug his fight. At the May Criminal security he had in giving the plaintiff Sessions, the first and third defendants 3000 when he had known him only a few were each sentenced to five years' hard days, witness said that a man named Jabour. The second "defendant, who was Chan Tuk had recommended plaintiff and tou ill to appear, will take his trial at expressed his willingness to stand as the coming Bessions. His Honour the surety. He instructed plaintiff not to pay

South-East London turned out in thou. Chief Justice paid a tribute to the more than 30 cents a bundle for the

Bands on July 23rd to greet the King and services rendered to the public by Mr. bamboo.

He forgot the children of a brother who Focken on this occasion, and expressed Mr. Justice Woo said that he was be Queen, who motored to the Royal Obser had settled and died in one of the ing asked to decide which of the parties vatory at Greenwich, which was celebrat Overseas Dominions many years earlier. his keen appreciation of his fine act.",

The C.S.P., continuing, said that Mr was telling the truth. He felt satisfied ing its 250th birthday.

The King and Queen were received by By the laws of intestacy they book half Focken's name was now added to the that defendant did pay money to the long list of European civilians and Service plaintiff and was of opinion that a dis-Sir Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Boyal, of a not considerable' whole.

ca who had from time to time rendered pute arose owing to the fact that tho. and Lady Dyson Sir Frank Dyson dis valuable assistance to the police, who plaintif spent more than he was given.posed of a tradition that the observatory were never disappointed when the need Judgment for defendant with costs would bad not been visited by a monarch since for such assistance occurred. It was a¦ be given. great pleasure to see Mr. Li Chi Kong. as one of the recipients of this commenda 'tion, as the fine part he had played in the affair stood out in strong contrast to the attitude which had been alleged ass national trait of the Chinese. They bad been accused of possessing "too much of The Ukrainian, Joseph L. Tiplitchi, that trait which was expressed in the against whom an order for deportation phrase" No belong my pidgin in other was made at the Central Magistracy on words each man acting for himself. This Saturday, on the ground that he was an Jund been experienced by the police here, undesirable person, will now be released as it no doubt had been experienced by and the deportation order cancelled. other police forces in China. It was well- The authorities have made further known that in this Colony crimes of enquiries and aro satialed that this was violence were often committed in crowded a case of mistaken identity. thoroughfares without anyone lifting s finger to prevent or help in the arrest.

of the culprite, whereas on the other hand,

if they had occurred in the great citien

would have been immediately raised. For

UKRAINIAN VINDICATED. CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY,

PANCHO VILLA

1675 (by, Charles IL) by referring to visit by George IIL

Indeed, it is just the people with small sums to leave who rely with such touching faith on the power of intestacy to do exactly what they wish without their say- ing a word of direction. It is the man In the Enall courtyard of the observa with only a few thousands and his fur tory were astronomers from all over the niture who is so ready to any "Why world from Japan, France, Spain, bother about a will? There is only my Bolivin (South America), and the United wife.

States risiting this country to attend Of course the brother who has made tas a congress at Cambridge, MA own fortune, and the sister who has

Guided by Sir Frank Dyson, the King married a millionaire, and the nephews and Queen toured the observatory build- and nieces, children of a dead brother who ings, which entailed climbing several left them comfortably off, do not count---. hundred steps up and down winding in his calculations. staircases to the big domen in which the largest telescopes are boused.

THE IMAGINARY LINE.

But they do in the eyes of the law. And while the wife gets half of the re sidue (after the first 2500 which goes to In the transit circle room they saw an her absolutely), the rich brother and sister 11ft. long telescope, by no means impres. each get one third of the remaining half; aive in size, but through this telescope, and the nephews and nieces get a third from north to south, runs the imaginary to share among them as the legal. za

of Europe and America a bus and eryDEAD BOXER'S BODY ARRIVES AT line-the Greenwich meridian-from presentatives of the dead brother.

MANILA

which the world's degrees of longitude!

In the eyes of the layman certain re are measured By means of the transit lationships are unduly favoured, eirelo the time of a star's passage over

Thus an unmarried man who hasa

these reasons Mr. Li had set a good example in the circumstances mentioned,

As the remains of the late Pancho the Greenwich meridian is observed and which he hoped would be followed by his. countrymen in the future. He had great Villa were lowered over the side of the Greenwich time is checked father and brothers and sisters might not pleasure in presenting the tokens of ap. President Harrison at Manila, on the It was in the chronometer room that be aware that in the case of his intestacy preciation of the Government of their morning of August 20th, not a sound was the King, as a anilor, found most to in the father will inherit to the exclusion heard throughout Pier No. 7. All ope- tercat him. Quietly ticking on rows of of the brothers and sisters. Where there good services,

The presentations were then made, Mr. rations were suspended. Thousands of shelves were nearly 1,000 clocks belonging is zo father living, bat a mother and Again, the husband will get the whole Vocken being presented with a silver heads were bared. The low ramble of to the Admiralty. When they are new, brothers and sisters, these share equally. cigarette Case bearing the following in the derrick engines, as the body, in a and every three years afterwards, ships

ye is for from being in the same favourable scription Presented to Mr. F. W. Focken coffin shrouded by the American flag of the Royal Navy send their ghrose of the intestate wife's personalty; but she by the Hongkong Government in apprecia reached the dock, alone brake the silence. meters to Greenwich

Wreaths of fowers, given by the Fili Harrison's second timekeeper, recently position. Sion of public services, April 21st, 2025:!!!

pino communities of Kobe, Yokohama, renovated and set going after a silence Mr. Li was presented with a cheque.. The recipients of the gifts expressed Bhanghai and Hongkong, were laid on the their thanks

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Make a will.

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