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PIRATES OF THE '* TUNGCHOW."

FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH.

FOUR HANDED OVER TO CHINESE

AUTHORITIES.

The French Mixed Court at Shanghai has delivered seatened upon the eight Chinese who were charged with having taken part in the piracy of the C. N.

T'ungehas at the end of last year, Four of the men were sentenced to death and four were handed over to be dealt with by the Chinese authorities and outlawed from the Concession.

It will be recalled that these eight mea were arrested on board the C.N.. Soochow on information received by the French police that members of the gang tefe returning to Shanghai to commit another atrocious crime. Four of them were identified in Court by Mr. Nisbet, first officer of the Tungchow; and Mr. Scott, the second officer. Several of the passengers in Tientsin, to whom photographs of the prisoners were sent, also recognized accused Theis, evidence, sent by post, was 'accepted by the Court

The prisonere defence was a complete denial that they were

on board the pirated vessel. Four of them pleaded that they were in Waichow at the time. Those who put forward this plea declar ed that they had been officers in the

anti-Bolshevik forces and had been re- duced to poverty.

M. du Pao de Marsoulies, who with Mr. A. E. Seddon prosecuted on behalf of the Tungchoir's owners," the China Navigation Co., after describing the piracy, said that four of the men had been identified by two of the officers and several passengers. In the case of the other four they had an alibi. Yet they all returned to Shanghai in the same vessel and embarked at the same place. Whichow, "from which four came, was well known to the Court, as a nest of pirates.

The article of the Chinese Criminal Code under which the first four were charged, counsel went on, provided for the death penalty and he demanded that it should be inflicted in the case of these mnen. As to the remaining four. they should be handed over to the Chinese nuthorities. These men admitted that they were without means and one had confessed that he was a robber.

The Court reserved judgment and has now, as stated imposed sentences in accordance with the demands of the prosecuting counsel.

CHINA COAST PIRATES.

CHINESE MARINES EXECUTE TWENTY.

The Foochow correspondent of the Shanghai Times states a rather deter: mined effort is being made, after many

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH, 1928

"SEE THIS WORLD BEFORE THE NEXT."

** EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND'S "L

400 TOURISTS. ARRIVE.

See this world before the next," is the striking slogan, which appears on the descriptive world tour syllabus issued by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company in connection with the around-the-world tour of the R.M.S: Empress of Scotland. This huge liner, the longest, tallest and widest ever to have circumnavigated the globe, and the third "Empress steamship owned and operated by the Canadian Pacifio Steamship Company to call here on a world-cruise since the C.P.S. began, conducting its own cruises, arrived bere yesterday morning with 445 tourists on board. The Empress of Scotland has now accomplished a little more than half of her 30,000 mile cruise.

She is also the third, tourist vessel which has called at Hongkong this season, leaving other three yet to come. The next will be the Cunard liner Laconia, dar on March 20th,

On her arrival, shortly after eight o'clock yesterday, the Empress of Scotland berthed at the Kowloon Wharf.

THE LOCAL PROGRAMME Yesterday, the first of four days to be spent in the Colony, was a tree day for the tourists, the majority of whom were interested in the attractive displays set

out in the Chinese and other stores: Not many could resist purchasing curios of the Far East and souvenirs of Hongkong to take home with them.

Arthur Bartloft Hurice, former editor T. Herald, now writing for The Out" The Bankman, last literary editor old look, New York City...

This cruise marks what is probably the rotiring trip of Mr. A. E. Philp, O.B.E., the veteran ranking chief engineer of the Canadian Pacific Fleet,

Sir Arthur Mayo-Robson, K.B.E., who was decorated during the war for C.B, C.V.O., Colonel (retired), eminent his services in connection with the British surgeon and lecturer Broadoak,

Surrey.. transportation of 110,000 troops, whila

Henry Mechan, engineer, Glasgow, covering 174,000 miles of the Seven Seas, Scote including Gallipoli.

Robert M. (Bob) Millikin, artist seek- The Captain of Staff on the Empressing acts for American vaudeville, N.V.C. of Scotland is Staff Captain R. N. R. F. Norman, ship broker, French consular agent and author, Briton Ferry, Stuart, V.O., D.S.O., R.N.R. ?-

Wales.

Other ship's officers include:-Chief Officer C, H. Sapsworth, Chief Engineer A. E. Philp, Purser J. Walker Bartlett, Surgeon D. B. S. Jones, and Chief Steward L. Geddes.

Though longer, wider and taller, being 65 feet of of the water, than the Belgen land, another around the world tourist liner, which was recently in Hongkong, the Empress of Scotland basia gross ton; nage slightly leas She was built at Stettin in 1905 as the Kaperin Auguste Fictoria, but came under British registry in London in 1021, when she was re- christened with her present name. *

The liner's description, and her special features such as the winter garden, palm court, spacious promenade docks, ball room etc, were siluded to in the Daily Press earlier this week.........

THE PASSENGERS,

Of the passengers, the oldest is 83 years old and the youngest 9. The average is 49.17 years and 37 per leent of them are of the feminine gender.

their sojourn in India at the season in They were, particularly impressed with

which they were there. Those who made The tourists will have the opportunity, the trip across the Indian peninsula, even a view of their visit here being over the penetrating as far south as Madras and Chinese New Year, of seeing something Madura in the Deccan, dwell upon ita of the Chinese New Year Bazaar in barbaric gorgeousness, its wondrous Paddy's Market, with its stalls laden with architecture, and its unfathomable everything from coat-hangers, and per- Benares during the eclipse of the sun on mysterics. They happened to be in

cock feathers to Beston garters, wonder-January 14th when more than a million ful chrysanthemums in bloom and orange and a quarter of Hindus assembled on trees in fruit.

the banks of the sacred Ganges, to im- merse themselves in the holy waters and thereby appease the fearsome demon who dares devour their light-giving planet.

Among the prominent passengers aboard are:-

Last evening a Chinese dinner was served, to the tourists at the Hongkong Hotel and afterwards, they proceeded to the Repulse Bay Hotel to a dance.

Albert O. Anderson, F.A.C.O., organist and elephant collector, New York City.

Frank O. Anderson, manufacturer, Jamestown, N.Y

Dr. G. Adolph Anderson, artist, New York City.

Frank H. Ayres, corporation secretary, Oakland, Calit.

To-day the party will be split up into groups. Group "A" will do a motor tour of the New Territories and the "B" and "C" Groups "will pay visits to the Peak. To-morrow Group "B" will tour the New Territories; Group "C" will go Heary Bald, wholesale mcals, Buffalo around the Island and Group "A" will NY

Horbert B. Baldwin, pres. visit the Peak. On Saturday each party Microscopical society, v-prce, North will do the trips not previously covered Jersey section American Chemical society, in different directions. The visit to Can-East Orange N.J.

Monongahela de Beaujeu, ex-owner El ten, which had been originally planned; Nacional. and philatelist, Montreal, has had to be cancelled owing to the exist-Cañada, ing situation.

Charles H. O'Brien, with Carson, Pirie Seats & Co., Chicago, with offices in tsin, Feking, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu. Manila, Canton, Shanghai, Cheloo, Tien-

John Cedric Parren, manufacturer, tür!- man of Donomovirs and Castlewood art and literature, Farms, critic of University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

3. Vincent Reardon, president, The Reardon Co., St. Louis, and the Nelson Products Co., Chicago, Illinois.

Col EM Renouf, publisher,,, com- Field Artillery and Heary Artillery at mander, Canadian Royal Horse Artillery, coronation of King George V., Montreal.

Mrs. Edith Outram Renouf, descendant of the late General Sir James Outram of Lucknow Fame, Montreal, Canada. Loweswater, Cumberland:

Hilton Robinson, retired bank manager,

N. C. Robinson, retail coal and builders' supplies, interested in missionary work bula, Ohio. of Methodist Episcopal Church," Ashta-

Miss Katharine J. Smith, writing upon conditions in Palestine and Orient, La Jolla, California

O. J. Standard, mining and metal- lurgical engineer, Richmond, Surrey.

nastic institute for young ladies, professor Kare Tollmann, director medical gym-

of natural history, Copenhagen.

Arthur E. Thompson, lumber and coal, Canandiagua, NY.

C. Thompson, chairman, British Chamber of Commerce in Agentine, 1920 ; municipal councillor, City of Buenos. and undo Argentino, two largest illus- Aires, 1919-20; vice-president, El Hogar trated weeklies, Buenos Aires.

R. Gillespy Turnbull, shipbuilder, London..

Belfast and London.

Hugh Turtle, builder and contractor,

Harry Thorp Vare, manufacturer, sccy, Foster McClellan Co., treas Sterling Engineering Co., Buffalo, NY.

Ernest Wadsworth, shipbuilder, South Duxbury, Mass..

Colonel Allan B Wallace, retired, Summit N. J. and Hartford, N.Y

Dr. O. D. Whalin, physician, Chicago, III.

George S. Whyte, wire rope manufse- turer. Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Mrs. Henry F. Wichman, widow of Henry E. Wichman, prominent jewel- ler, Honolulu, Hawaii.•

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Eugen Bleckmano, steel manufacturer, Vienna, Austria,

Miss Martha N. Brooks, industrial re- search, active worker in campaigns for equal suffrage and prohibition, first Massachusetta woman elected a city alder- man, Gloucester, Miss.

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Richard C. Wren, director, Potter & Clarke, Ltd, wholesale druggists; Justice of Peace, Fellow of Lincana Society, author of Cyclopedia of Botanic Drugs, Westcliff-on-Sea, "England,

ORGANISATIONS ON BOARD, Organisations on board the liner are as under:-

World Cruise Masonic Club, 1925-0-- Col. E. M. Renout, Montreal, President: Mr. John R. Classon, Brentwood, Eng- land, Vice-President; Mr. Ernest Wads- worth, Bridgewater, Mass, Secretary

GOLFING ENTHUSIASTS. There are twenty goll enthusiasts on board who have formed what they term The Around-the-World Goling Club, and they have played at practically every port. For the best score made throughout the cruise, Mr. John Wanamaker, of Phila- months of terrorism, to rid the coast delphia, has offered a silver cup. Yes-Gluo. 83 years old, eldest passenger on

Rotary Club:Mr. George S. Whyte, Kenosha, Wis., President; Mr. Arthur E. south of Foochow of pirates, particularly terday the members of this Golf Club

Thomson, Canandiagua, N.Y., Secretary. the coast of Taitang Island, and the visited Fanling in company. with Lieut. - Ngucheng Feninsula, near Futsing. One Col. E. D. Matthews (the Secretary of Hamilton, author The Whip, Hampsteed. Eastern Star Club:Mrs. Edith Gattis, Benjamin B. Bryan, senior partner Seattle, Wash, President; Mrs Ide 0. of the small coast cutters, belonging to the Royal Hongkong Golf Club) and were Logan and Bryan, stocks, bonds and com-Wentzel, Pittsburgh, Pa., Vice-President;

shown over the Fanling course, etc. the Marines, has done effective work ine course, will be available for play for modity brokers, with largest lensed wire Miss Martha N. Brooks, Gloucester, brokerage connections in United States Mass. Secretary Ms. Ida McQuesten, this region, ridding it of pirates. Twenty them to-day and to-morrow. were recently beheaded in Futsing eity. Since sailing eastward from New York and Canada, linking 40,000 miles terri- Tacoma, Wash., Instructor..

Camera Club:-Mr. Milton C. Robin- on December 3rd the giant, liner has tory, including branches in Chicago, previously called at Madeira, Gibraltar, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, San Franson, Ashtabula, Ohio, President; Mr. Algiers, Monaco, Napies, Haifa, Port cisco, Los Angeles. Head Office: N.T.C. John C. Farren, Lexington, Ky, Vice- Thomas Burton, miller and justice of President; Mias Alison Douglas, Gomere- Said, Suez, Bombay, Colombo, Padang, the peace for Hertfordshire, Sawbridge sal, England, Secretary and Treasurer.

· COMMODORE'S DANCE.

NIGHT OF GAIETY ON H.M.S. "TAMAR."

"A very pleasant time was spent on the H.M.8. Tamar last night, the occasion being the Commodore's annual dance There were about 400 present, and an Excellent dance programme was provid ed, music being supplied by the combined dance orchestras of HM.8. Titania and H.M.S. Tamar.

Among those present were Admiral Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair, Major- General CC Lord, Lady Clementi, Commodore, Stirling, captains of ships and naval and army officers.

The following dance programme, was provided:-

Extra

Fox Trot

Fox Trot .. Waltz

Fox Trot

Seminala.

Indian Love Call. I Love the Moon.

Gee but I am Lonesome for You. One Step ...

Batavia, Singapore, and Manila. Un- usual features of the cruise were Christ-wot... nas Day in the Holy Land, New Year's Eve in Cairo, and arrival in India early manufacturer, Liverpool. in January, the best mouth for visiting. the tropics. Following stopovers in Chins and Japan, the Empress of Scotland will cross the Pacific to Hawaii and California, returning to New York through the Panama Canal on April 10th.

William Constable, retired tobacco

Dennis F. Donovan, hotel proprietor, Perth Amboy, N.J.

Herbert H. Downsbrough, operative builder, Philadelphia, Pa.

Robert Dunlop, landed proprietor, Belfast, Ireland.

Dr L Paul Ellis, agriculturist,

Travel Club: Dr. B. Raymond Hoobler. Detroit, Mich., Chairman; Robert Dunlop, Belfast, Ireland, Vice- Chairman; Mrs. H. B. Yates, Montreal, Secretary.

over the provision made, for social enter

All the passengers are very enthusiastic tainment and recreation on board while at sea. Between ports they held all inds of sports; while in the evenings there are concerts, dances and "cards,

Etish this being the largest contingent Logsburg,

As a third of the cruise personnel are. of British subjects ever to circle the Charles Evans, retired hotel owner, etc. globe the liner will continue across the Sacramento, Calif. Atlantic from New York to Southampton,

Albert E. Foote, educational pictures. whence most of them sailed aboard the Pasadena, Calif.

ame vessel on November 14th last year Edith E. Chitis, teacher dramatic art, to begin the cruise from New York On prominent Order Eastern Star, Seattle, reaching England again they will have Wash crossed the Atlantic three times.

voyage.

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A CAFE ALTERCATION

LALLEGED ATTEMPT TOʻSTAB EUROPEAN.

police report on Tuesday stated that the police were called to the scene, but that the rame of the European had not

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Alfred Alexander Gibbons, miller and A Chinese waiter of the Victoria Café, The Canadian Pacife is the only steam- merchant, Ipswich, Eng. ship company operating its own cruises. John Glasson, governing director Des Yeux Road Central, appeared át These were initiated in 1824 when the J. R. Glasson & Co., Ltd., house fur the Central Magistracy yesterday on a Empress of Canada was sent around the nishers, chan Furnishers Chamber of charge of having assaulted a European. world, introducing the one-management Trade, London; v-pres. Hire Traders tour, both afloat and ashore. Last year Protection Asan, Great Britain. Ophelia the Empress of France made the same B. R. Hoobier, H.S., A. M.D.,

been then ascertained. physician and surgeon, Detroit, Mich..

Josef Janger, wool manufacturer,Yesterday, his name was given as James When the case was Royston Stuart. OFFICIALS AND OFFICERS.

Gablonz, Czecho-Slovakia. Mr. P. D. Sutherland, for 18 years a John H. Kamman, pres John H. Kam. called he did not appear, but bis wife was

present representative of the Canadian Pacific mon Co., packers and grocers, Ruffalo Inspector, Spear said that it appeared in high positions in the Orient, chiefly in N.Y:"

that complainant, who was accompanied, Hongkong, is the director-in-charge of Miss C Keith, classical futor Stby his wife; drew the waiter's attention the cruise. He is assisted by a staff of Nilda's hail, Oxford. Daughter. ten competent directors, supervised hy

E. C. Kischel, wholesale glass, Minne, to the unclean knives which had been Let me Call you Sweetheart. Mr. W. R. MacInnes, of Vancouver, B.C., apolis, Minn.

given them, whereupon accused picked ..... Oh Katherine Canada,

polis, Knight, underwriter Lloyds, and not succeed in doing so, since the one up and attempted to stab him. He London: Edderton, Scot

complainant closed with him. The latter Charica Alva Lane, manufacturer and had been asked to come to Court, but author," "Alliance, Ohio,

Complainant's wife, in evidence, re lated the story as outlined by the In

Susie.

For Trot Yes Sir that's my Baby Fox Trot

Who takes care of the Caretaker's

Waltz

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Fox Trate. For Trot Waltz

.... Aba Mra A. M Camp, of New York City. .....Yearning is the social hostess and organiser of Rose Marie entertainment, and Mrs. W. Kendall Evans, her assistant. Mr. Harry Pollard,

Fox Trot... Moonlight and Roses. One Step

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C. A. and Harold V. Lundquist, mer-spector

· In command "of the liner is Captain | chants, Jamestown, N. Y

C. Latta, who was, until recently the Ella N. Martine, tescher, winner San commander of the Mouniroyal, formerly Francisco Chronicle Essay contest: a trip the Empress of Britain. Included in the around the world aboard the Empress of crew of 321 are 44 officers."

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Major C. Willson, the Magistrate, said that it was a very serious charge, and adjourned the case until this morning,

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