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ALLEGED ASSAULT ON LUKONG.

WOMAN, CHOPPER AND A CONSTABLE'S HEAD,

PREVIOUS ARRESTS THAT BORE NO FRUIT,

Alleging that a Chinese woman had assaulted him with a chopper out of revenge, a Chinese constable

THE SIKH FEUD.

MAN OF PEACE" GIVES

EVIDENCE.

ANOTHER ADJOURNMENT..

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13th, 1927.

CHINESE CIVILIZATION

EVERYTHING SACRIFICED: TO FAMILY. ·

DOUBTFUL OF WESTERN IMPETUOSITY.

The difference between

MALAYA'S FORESTS. SHIAH AND SUNNI.

RESERVATION NEEDED.

PESTS THAT PREY ON THE TREES.

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The only great natural resources the which we possess, so far as is at characteristics of civilization in present known, are tin and forests, old China and in the West may anys the Straits Timea.

THE SCHISM IN ISLAM.

·RELIGIOUS FRENZY IN MONTH OF MOHARRAM.

The third bearing was held yes- terday before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy of the case in which five Indian watchmen are being summoned. for assaulting in- charged the woman before Hr. other, three of their countrymen Ploters who set out on the path of available for exploitation, we cannot The old differences between Sunni world progress bearing the same estimate. We have no reliable geo- and Shiah obtain as strong as ever, tracy yesterday morning. The de- Queen's Road Central, on July motto on their standards:" Gological informatiet nor even scien- and it will be many a long year;

together. But the Weat has imtife surmise to guide us. However, before a Muslim will arise who can patiently underscored the one word One of the defendants, Teja is go" while the East has heavily

we lo know that in the nature of unite the two sects. For they clash Singh, in the course of his evidence

things tin is a wasting asset. This said that he was a Dian of peace traced in red ink the word to!

oa very important principles. The and had no liking for barbaric fight-gether."

leaves us only the forests, So said Dr. William

Even Sunni is the traditionist, the Shian

The riot at the Khadkimam Mosque, Baghdad (an account of which appeared recently in the How Daily Press), is yet another re be likened to that between two ex-much tin there is ret economically minder of the division in Islam.

R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis.

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fendant was represented by Mr. D. MeCallum, who issued summons against the constable, also

for assault.

According to the Jukong, the

near the Pioneer Silk Store at

14th.

the Shinh 15

ing in the streets. On the morning Hung, Dean of the College of Arts forests are a wasting asset in the the dissenter; the Sunni outlook is and Sciences of Yenching Univer-hands of spendthrift administra.

while practical, Chinese group at the Pacife Rela that having been given by Providare Shiak-I have heard it said member of the tions. It will be well, therefore, imaginative. Most of the Fersians sity, Peking, a

and hawking without a licence in them with sticks, He ran away and tions Conference in Honolulu, in ence great potential natural wesit. that is why the best carpets in the

woman was arrested on August 8th, and taken to, the No. 7 Police Station, for causing an obstruction

Second Street. The charges against the woman were dismissed by the Inspector on duty on the ground that the rice was dirty and that no

in question, he was on the way home with another defendant named Caldbeck Macgregor's wine store, Capal Singh. When they were near

the three complainants set upon

did not assault the complainants.

Defendant also said that Najar Singa, one of the complainants, had a grudge against him which arose out of a previous case. He had re- ported him to the Chief Detective

a public lecture on the subject Old China as a Background for

the New!"

Wild Kevolt Of Youth.

"I have come to confess, not to

we conserve it to the full.

For the moment, the enemies of nur forests are in clover. They range from mighty elephants, men- keys, crabs and caterpillars down

seales or money were found to show Inspector and had been to Messra;hosat," said Dr. Hung, at the out to the minutest of insect life. So

Teg.

These two women.

I Lo, local solicitors, and asked

world come from Persia-and-a large proportion of the Iraqis pre also Shiahs, especially in the south, with Basrah as the centre.

The Sunnia acknowledge the nu-

one of the proceeded to draw into the picture they are courageous, considering the ings of Mohammed; the Shiahs re- Capal Singh gave corroborative what the considered were the weak- smallness of our battalions and ourjeet this authority. The Sunnis

Questioned by Sub- Dessos of the "old man of the lack of scientific research data, Inspector Carey, prosecuting, hehouse" on this, the eve of his re-

evidence.

also uphold the succession of Abu Beker, Omar, and Othman, whom the Shiahs denounce as usurper of

the Caliphate The Shiahs, who

sprang into being shortly after the

that the defendant had been. hawk them to write a letter to the Police set of his attempt to paint. the gur efforts in defence and offence thority of the Sunna, a body of complaining of certain parties who background of old China as a basisst be dcfred as feeble, though traditions of the doings and say. entertained & grudge against "Lim, On August 9th, the lukong arrest

This letter was signed by od for understanding the new, and be ed another woman for the same

Persons. Ho พียง offence. After banding the womagnatories. over to the No. 7 Police Station, he came out and met a third woman who said that she would "chop the

One of the most important of constable up" if he were not care said that he merely signed the tirement before the world-wide re-acsets of Malayan forestry, and one ful The inkong also arrested this letter, but did not know what he woman for using threats. The in was signing. He also admitted that volt of youth. The characteristic likely to be so for some generations spector in charge also dismissed in the statement he made to the difference between civilizations is to come, is the mangrove. We do

Police, after his arrest, he gave The constable said, that he again certain wrong information about the wholly a matter of historical em- not know how considerable this death of Othman, say that Ali. his arrived at Second Street at about time of his leaving duty that morn phasis on certain elements common aset is only continuous surveya soos Hassan and Hussein, and the 10.45 a.c. As he passed house No. ing. and the time of the nasal to all, and not a question of in-by air, water and land will eventual descendants of the latter are the 53 a youth hit him on the head He said he way frightened at the barent unlikeness, Dr. Hung bey tell us, but we do know that with a bamboo pole and knocked time and thought that by making off his helmet. Simultaneously the the time wrong, he would be allow lieves. Among the three main rela-this particular asset is disappearing only true Imams, and that a be defendant struck him on the head fed bail.

tionships. of human life, that of faster than we can at present relief in "their divine right comprises

produce it. was again adjourned man to man, that of man to nature,

The damage done to the most important article in the with a wood caopper. The witness

seeds by crabe, And seized the woman and blew his until Wednesday next.

mongrove and that of man to God, Chinese monkeys, and to tree trunks by faith of Islam. The Shinhs, more- whistle. As another Chinese cor-allowed as before.

has emphasised the first man's boring insects is very serious. The over, lifted their religion out of stable approached the woman drop-

scheme of adjustment to his fellow, crabs dig down to the seedling roots the commonplace into something for food, the monkeys pull up the seedlings to get at the crabs for the ornate and picturesqus. second, man's empire over nature; same purpose, while the borers India, for example, is typical of enter the tree trunks to make a home. Our experiments towards the third emphasis, faith, adjust-protecting the seedlings have not ment to the universe.

ped the chopper. The youth also

dropped his pole while in the act

The case

Bail was

ofing a second blow at the wit THE CREATION OF PEERS. man; the West has emphasised the

The

ness's bead, and ran away. witness handed the defendant over to the other constable and himself picked up the chopper..

Continuing, the constable said that when he felt his head and saw blood on his hand he became giddy: and a third constable who arrived just then had to help him to the station. Later he went to the Gov ernment Civil Hospital where the wound, on his head was stitched,

daughter, It was true that the wit

MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S DENIAL.

QUIPS AT LORD BIRKENHEAD

creating-(laughter)-and

Derp Booted Diferences. Except during the month of Moharram, the non-Mohammedan been very economically successful. Planting the seedlings in tin rollars onlooker, if he is not a student, Where the Old Systom Fails...

has proved other indigeous valuable sees no sign at all of the schism. Such an emphasis in the cultural forest growths that need our pro- history of China Tesulted in the detection. Certainly it will pay us to But it exists, though less in Irak give that protection, and, in ad- than in Persin, and less than in dition it will pay us, to introduce Thn Saud's kingdom. new growths.

velopment of a system of ethics, or regulations for the contact of maa with man, which has been one of the strongest stabilizing influences in the life of old China, Dr. Hung explained, and he pointed out how

Speaking at Carmarthen, the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George said: "A friend of mine in the House cf Lords-I meac a personal friend, and not a political friend made a speech this week in which

In some he said that I created 102 peer

parts of Persia the Sunni is look- but he was not "detained.

Unpopular With Natives." I really did not think I was as bad Answering to questions put by that. He is wrong by at least

Experience teaches us-that-forest-ed upon but as a dog, and for a Mr. McCallum, witness denied that one-half. He is 100 per cent

reservation is distinctly unpopular Persian Shiah to enter a Sunni he had persecuted the women in wrong. That is about his average

in native countries. The battle be-- controversial" subjects. Second Street. The young woman in all

tween the natives of Africa, for Mosque is to cast disgrace on the I mean my friend this insistence on the structure of iratance, and the White-man's fores Shrines of Abbas and Hussein. who threatened him he afterwards (Laughter.)

Re, I think, discovered was the defendant's Lord Birkenhead.

was the first peer I had the honour society and on the importance of try departments has been a long The Shiaha, though only a minority

I etiquette has led to evils and weak one and is still being fought on the nes had also taken this woman of

outskirts. The native-the primitive in Islam, are strong because their into custody for obstructing him in think the mistake he has made is desses which Young China insists native has enjoyed the forests, and the execution of his duty, and for by counting himself not as one but must be scrapped. It has led, he the produce therefrom, for so far prejudices and practices bind them threatening him, bat she was as one hundred." (Laughter.).

Mr. Lloyd George quoted from says, to four evils-to the neglect back as his traditions go. He sees together. Were not the Puritans no harm in roughly felling an area, strong for the same reason? The an opinion which, he said, was ex- of the individual's physical welfare pressed by a coalowner criticising in favour of the demanda of his cultivating his crops on the site for clash between the grent Islam sects

a season or two and then moving the Government over the coal sub many relationships; to dependence on and felling another area, leaving becomes public during this month sidy, and which concluded: "It is upor tradition and the experience destruction behind him. The future of celebrations. During Mobar- amazing to have in a business of others instead of upon the criti- to him is the future. It must look country & Government which rig cal faculties of one's own intelli-after itself.

There are even well educated and s without any idea of the can gence; to the discouragement of sequences of its actions." "That personal initiative through family otherwise sophisticated people who was said by Sir Alfred Mond," said interdependence; and to the sacri- also fail to realise the importance Mr. Lloyd George, only two fice of national solidarity in favour to the world of forestry conserva- Battle of Kerbela 1,200 years ago. months before he started on the of family solidarity. rond to Damascus (laughter) — when he was stricken with a great

leased.

Knocked. Down?

re-

Replying to the Magistrate," In Spector Grant said there was no record at the Station of the con- stable having preferred a charge of threats against the young woman. Further cross-examined by Mr. McCallum the constable said it was not true that when he returned to Second Street, the younger woman said to him" If its a reward you are after why don't you arrest a robber 1 "

Mr. McCallum: And you prompt ..ly knocked her down after that

No, I did not knock anybody down.

The case was adjourned.

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INFATUATED WOMAN.

A HOUSE.

blindness from,which he has act "This individual," Dr. Hung yet recovered. There you have a said, has been imprisoned with Daniel come to judgment, or, at in the solidarity of the family sys least, a descendant of a Daniel." tem. Patriotism, freedom for Pazed propaganda, however, is gradual allow that Hussein merits the hon- (Laughter.)

ticipation in a larger national life, A few weeks ago, when Sir Al has been denied him. It was al paving the way towards impro-gur paid bim. It is always best up, and left the heavy chain descend ADMITS HER LOVER TO ROB

between their shoulder-blades. Ar the frebry heightened they brought i fred Mand was in Carmarthen, he ways family first,' at the expense ing the public aspect towards con- zaid that he (Mr. Lloyd George) of everything else. But you must servation and replacement problems, that Saanis keep out of the way,

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the chain down, and often the final New Zealand's Example.. was responsible for something he not believe, because I confess these

blows are delivered with great had done in helping the General weaknesses, that Young China is Within the British Empire, New These processions are unfor strength, Men carrying banners, This is most dangerous Strike. That was an extraordin- altogether ungrateful Old

Zealand leads in forestry enterprise ary. doctrine. All I did, when China. There are many excel- Not only is the Government taking getable. They are the most grue- and men playing every imaginable womba What can be more dan

instrument, marched with the gerous than a woman who, when the Archbishop of Canterbury and lences in her past, and it, in the large view of tree planting for some, yet moving, spectacles I have beaters. Eassan, Hussein, Ali- left in charge of a house, or flat, the leaders of the Free Church said bubbub of to-day's change, these investment purposes, but private ever seen. Nothing in Christendo Ali, Hassan, Hussein-the weird admits a man supposed to be z the time had come for trying to may seem disregarded, they are not enterprise is also showing a bold

member of a dangerous gang of make peace instead of war, was to forgotten and will never be tossed hand. A company has recently been matches them in intensity and real shout defied the sun's glare. British Intervention.

burglars, who loots the place and A magic city has grown up in rally myself behind the party of into the discard China still be prompted and is making good head feeling. Catholic pilgrimages or

Before the British intervened shares the swag with her??? the centre of London. It has its peace. It is a sad time that is lieves that tomther is mare in-way on a tree-planting bonds prin- Welah or Scottish revival meetings.there were far worse mutilations | This question was asked by Mr. own shops, its own free cinemas, coming in this country if you can portant than go. While we have ciple. The public buy bonds and palace of beauty, bungalows, its not say 'ditto to the Archbishop sacrificed speed, we have in China the money from the bonds is utilised are stone-cold beaide them. One carried out in these processions, of Bingley, the Marylebone magis own club, even its own bank. It is of Canterbury without being de more companionship, less of com for planting virgin. land with suit-hot afternoon when the temperature which bead-cutting was the worst. trate, when passing sentence of the Advertising Exhibition.

petitive hate, and more of the tran-able varieties of marketable timber.

But it is very dangerous policy to at nounced as an Anarchist."

was about 115 deg. F. in the shade, interfere with religions, practices on Freda Cardwell, aged 33, a ser three months in the second division quillity that comes from modera As the timber grows the invested watched a procession in Basrah. Olympia, Kensington, W.

tion, and we have more simplicity money grows with it. Quick growth honds in it, hun carried out so sincerely and con- vant, of Gillingham-street, Vicotria, in thinking and in-living, rathering frs and like soft woods are reds bare to the waist, and walnoting so much sacrifice; and the who was charged with being con

British can proceed but slowly. It cerned with a man, believed to ba taan briliance-rmning true to the mostly favoured in New Zealand. ancient doctrine of moderation, of The climate suits them and the pros. ing in a most heart-reading way is a most remarkable tribute to her lover, in stealing jewellery. sprearing a guard against excess recte al advancing prices are rosy. La ilish illa Allah wa Mohammad Mohammedanism that its adherents valued at £386 from Lanark Lodge, We are taught that the impetuosity Altogether, the New Zealand Gov. rasul Allah, wa Ali wali Allah will go to such lengths on its be Maida Vale, W belonging to her

Mohmmed is the apostle of God, tame compared with Moharram, mercial artists, half a million week's show at Olympia, with its of the Westerner is not thoroughlyerament has planted 63,000 acres of (There is no God, but the God, and half. The Fast of Ramadhan is employer, Mrs. M. Pyke.

The magistrate described the square feet of painted bond. daring architectural adventures, admirable; that it is more impor-new forest and this is being added and Ali the Saint of God.) The though the fasting be for all the

will change all our ideas of shop than how to start.

tant to know when and how to stop to every year. In Malaya we could

case one of barefaced complicity. Confucius 35,000 feet of sky blue auslin have fronte and their decorations.

grow teak and other hard woods to wail was a petition, and there was days of a month. Nevertheless, in robbery. According to her own been used in the construction of

said: If you are in a harry you advantage. The climate suits and something in it that was as fierce Europeans who have lived for some Parade of Beauties.

confession, he said, she met the as the sum that scorched the streets time in Irak and other countries the city, which next week is to be London's new playground.

It will also show the world who may never reach your destins the risks from forest fires are small Women in black sobbed and moan of the Middle East declare that the man, Vernon Chapman, while" em"

tion."

As in New Zealand, the rainfall in When it is opened by Mr. L. 8. a jolly game advertising is. In In conclusion, Dr., Hung

W. She went out with him Amery, Secretary for the Domi- this dream city they will be able his audience to believe aked such that it is difficult for a fire toed hysterically, and druma beat processions are becoming quieter ployed as a domestic help in York-

start if reasonable fireguards pre-monotonously. Here and there were and quieter, and only inst year a nions, the world and his wife will to watch sixteen of the most beauti- amongst these weaknesses and executions are taken. It may be strong men, beating their breasts, Basrah Mukallad, Fayed. Mahdi and when he obtained employment at Lanark Lodge Chapman called Be the most startlingly modern ful girls in Britain parade in the cellences of the old order to which argued that it would be well first to the accompaniment of a band, Kuswaini, a very important Shiah exhibition ever held in London.

and I have never seen such rhythm leader, told me he was opposing upon her and she let him into the Palace of Beauty, to see how ad- he has referred, and in the mist to conserve and exploit what we Bruises and blood were on their processions,

house to steal the goods. "there being no merit The Advertising Exhibition ro vertining turns a bungalow into of the turmoil of change toward now possess before thinking forty of bodies. They were all hypnotised the Thus, some of the "He was asked to let her off-be-: presents the crest of the wave of an ideal home, and to join in all the new, there are constructave eur

one Shinhs are including, towards the the modern spirit in decorative the fun of the fair... All round the rents at work, honestly seeking to which should be well considered and

case she was: the victim of an boy" art," said Sir Lawrence Weaver, hall is 1.2 amazing Poster evaluate, adapt, scrap and pre no doubt will be when the Central Each group had a chairman of the exhibition

to it, pausing every few words for however, that the present: Irak 00*** Academy""the biggest hoarding servo, to the end that the old Council for Forestry Organisation is the blows to be heard. Each blow Government is so strongly Sunni, mittee,

and will probably revolu in the world covered with the house may be set in order under a created as a sequal to the recent had to fall on the same place. It and the Baghdad ripts may quite tionise current ideas in exhibition hundred best British posters. A strong new management and again recommendations for the Committee and commercial art

possibly have connection with that prize of £250 goes to the winner of become the pride of the neighbour Colonial Scientific and Research was a ghastly sight.

Hact; 1- (Continued on next Dolama) (Continued on next Column.) – the poster ballet competition.

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A thousand men have been work- ing day and night under the direc

The effect of the 1995 Decorative tion of Mr. F. R. Levis, exhibi-Arts Exhibition in Paris on

chitecture has been felt the con- Lapland; I firmly believe that next. tinued) from Leicester-square to

tion manager, and the other on cials of the Advertising Associa tion. Tons of plaster palaces, de corated by the finest British com

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50 years ahead. It is a question into & freny that who read Sunni. It is, perhaps, unfortunate, infatuation for this rascal, but there."

were limits to leniency, and seeing that there was a regular epidemie

of dishonesty among woman ser wants he felt it his public duty to Dass sentence upon her.