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CANTON FOR THE CANTONESE.
EVERYONE PLEASED AT PEACE POLICY.
[FROM
MANIFESTO BY TEN
COLONELS,
олг
"OLD FIVE-POTS."
A STREET CORNER WARRIOR.
MYSTIFYING THE COOLIES.
[BY H.A.F.]
His real name is Leung-Some.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1929.
ROUND THE POLICE
COURTS.
CHINESE WANTED BY PHILIPPINES AUTHORITY.
WARRANT FOR ARREST,
fugitive
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PROFESSOR W. J... HINTON,
TUG COMPANY'S FLEET.
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LEAVING THE UNIVERSITY. REPORTED SALE TO WHARF
& GODOWN COMPANY.
MANILA ALSO BUYING?
A NEW APPOINTMENT IN LONDON.
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have been going on for some time We understand that negotiations
loop Wharf & Godown Company and The Hong Kong Tug & Lighter Company regarding the sale to the former of a number of tugs belang. ing to the latter company.
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In addition to the sale to the
We understand that Professor W. J. Hinton, MA, has been offered,
in London. He will be leaving Hong Kong in a few weeks. His many friends will learn with mixed feelings of his impending departure Professor Hinton has been on the staff of the University since the
-From an authoritative source we His Worship took the evidence of opening of the first session in 1919. learn that the negotiations are as Mr. K. C. Krentz, Vice-Consul in He has, therefore, been nearly good a closed and that no less than Hong Kong for the United States of University. He was appointed Re- twenty-fire lighters and a number seventeen years in the service of the enjoy old "Five-Puts "America, after which he issued agistrar and after filling that affice of motor junks and tugs will short- warrant for the arrest of the for a year was fim 1913) appointedly change hands for a total, of
Professor of Political Economy,
There have been, in the seventeen $200,000. Mr. Krentz stated that he was years of its existence, many changes acting for Mr. E. A. Gilmore, Acting in the personnel of the University Governor-General of the Philip-reminds us that Mr. W., W. Hornell, A reference to the annual Calendars pines. He had good cause to be-M.A., CIE, is the fourth Vice lieve that the fugitive offender was Chancellor, his predecessors being suspected of embezzlement, larceny LL.D., Dr. Gregory Paul Jordan, Sir Charles Eliot, C.B., K.C.M.G.,
It will be recalled that some years and fraudulent misappropriation of LLD, MB. (Acting Vice-Chain-
vince of Cavite, P.I.. property at Corregidor, in the pro-cellor) and Sir William Brunyate, ago, a sale to the China Provident
K.C.M.G., LL.D
Loan and Mortgage Company was There have been a number of
con resignations. The following Pro- contemplated, but negotiations did have left the Colony not end successfully. The method of ley Salt (History), Francis Clark the shareholders of The Hong Kong Malconson (Physiology), Wrottes sale arranged at that time was for (Medical Jurisprudence), Stuart (Mathematics), Matthewman (Elec Tug & Lighter Company to receive trical Engineering), Warren (Elec-abares in The China Provident Loan trical Engineering), Wright (Eng Mortgage Company. lish), Brayshay (laternational Law), Earle (Physiology), John Smith
The present sale to the Godown (Education), John Anderson (Medi- Company is reported to be strictly cine), and N. T. Mackintosh (Re- or a cash basis, and it is believed Searching through past Calendars that the question of offering shares
Godown Company, it is further reported in Ice House Street that buyer in Manila is negotiating for the purchase of eight of the Tug Company's lighters.
At the Central Magistracy before OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] / thing-or-Other and he' hails from Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday, Mr. and has accepted, an appointment between The Hong Kong & Kor.
Canton-pats and all. He who Somerset Fitzroy, for the Crown cares to wander among Kowtoon's produced an order from B.E. the CANTON, April
side streets after dark may often Governor ordering extradition pro All Kwangsi troops have now left meet with the old sinner and, if ceedings against a Chinese fugitive Kwangtung, some going North by he has been sufficiently long in tha from the Philippines. The man is the Canton-Hankow Railway, and, East to appreciate the aroma given at present at liberty. others by junks up to Wuchow, off by a crowd of anything up to Kwangtung being neutral in the war a hundred coolies and their wives, he can, from the outskirts of the offered them every facility for going crowd, and the more apprehensive spirits show. feared an attempted at a coup Beneath the glare of a huge in- d'etat until they were gone. Every candescent, parafin lamp, "Five- Pots harangues the ring of im thing went off peacefully and the passive faces around him. Nobody province is now entirely garrisoned appears in the least interested in by its own forces. As all the stain patient expectation.
what he is saying but they stand tions on the Canton-Hankow Rail- At his side, his favourite wife way strong detachments were
crouches in that squatting attitude uncomfortable to Europeans" but duty when the Kwangsi men passed, heloved by he Chinese. No doubt through and gunboata kept an eyebar bushand is saying times out of Mrs. Five Pots has heard all that on the junks. Some 1,500 boxes af number, yet her expressionless ammunition were taken from the bisect, his jaki prepares a cai eres never once stray from his face Kwangsi forces on the ground that of rope weighted at one end with these supplies would lengthen the piece of iron. The casual on- looker surmises, quite incorrectly, *war, However, this decision ap that the fact is either going to give pears to have been reversed and the cartridges were placed on board couple of gunboats and taken to Wuchow.
Genera! Tang Shih Tang's reaig-minds nation of his posts of Garrison Commander and Police Commission- er has been accepted and ha is to "take a rest. A koen Kwangai was he who sent the man, it ultimatum to Chiang Kai Shek de- manding the release of Marshal Li Tsai Hsin and at once hurried on the mobilisation and despatch north-
tum in emulation of the late Hondini or eise garotte some poor unfortunate member of the Audi- encer;
Philippines bearing the seal of the Sworn statements taken in the
Executive Office of the Philippines, and the warrant issued by the Islands authorities, were produced by witnesa.
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J. dos Carldos, the Filipino who we find that the following games of to the holders of Hong Kong Tugs, LANE,
have from the is pot involved.
Messrs. Shewan Tomes & Co., the.
Keeping the Ring Olear. With memories still fresh in our of Warner Oland's film thrillers, we gather & little closer as Five Pots picks up the rope, deftly twirls it, and then sende its is being charged with the larceny lists, viz., Surman (Engineering), weighted end spinning through the air in our direction. Instinctively of 30 and $50 from two Chinese, Freeborn (History), Trafford (Econo- General Managers of the Tug & was again before Mr. T. S. Whyte mics), Franklin (Chemistry), Dana Lighter Co, when approached by Smith at the Kowloon Magistracying), King (Engineering), Mile make any statement on the subject.
ker (Economics), Marley (Engineer- our representative, were unable to yesterday. The defendant is also (Mathematics), Bion (Engineering), charged with obtaining the money
Barney (Biology), Keaton (Inter- under false pretences and
national Law).
we dart backward but the iron falls to the ground quite three feet short of where we were standing. The rope is quickly re-coiled and as deftly swung out in another direc- garrulous Indians. tion, scattering coolies, fakis, and
con-
Although the defendant it only
TRICK RIDING.
The Folice stated that the offence
WILLS PROVED.
ESTATE OF THE LATE MR. G. T. KNIGHT,
Resealing of probate of the will of Mr. Georgs Thomas Knight, of 18, Northumberland Park, Totten- him, Middlesex, who died on September 24, 1928, has been grant- ed to Mr. D. J. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master, attorney for the sole executrix, Emma Elizabeth Williains (wife of Charles Williams), the niece of the deceased.
Net personal estate left by the deceased amounts to £4,037 188. 8d., the local estate amounting to under $1,100,
Then we understand. Old Five verting same to his own use. It Pots is merely enlarging his ring. is alleged that the defendant got ward, of Cantonese troops. General Just beyond range of the flying the money from the two complain. Ha Yung has been made Garrison iron, the front row of the o-ants whom he engaged as shroffs; Commander and the post of Police haunches. They are the favoured representing himself to be the man-
i lookers squat contentedly on their
FLYING SQUAD MEMBER Commissioner wil go, it is said, occupants of the stalls.
"FINED IN COURT. either to Au Yang Kui, formerly
The the five small earthenware ager of the Philippine China Trad
RACE DAY INCIDENT. Police Commissioner in the Chiu pots-resembling the traditional ing Company with offices in Wing iron saucepan of England-are On Buildings, Nathan Road, Kow
Stated to be a member of the Mool district, or to Colonel Chen brought into action. They stand loon.
one on top of the other while Five
Flying Squad, a Chinese named Cheag Po, who commands the 3rd, Pot arders his foks to hit a larger
Chan Chi Fai was charged before Regiment of General Chen Teai pot from which water is poured charged on two counts amounting Major C. Willsom yesterday with
into the topmost of the pile. Tong's 1st Kwangtung Division. And the Joki pours, and pours, been involved in the misappropria- took place on March 9, a race day. Forence Chappell, of 17, Mari-
to 880, it was alleged that he bedding and dangerous driving on
Wong Nei Chong Road. and pours.
A constant stream of
After bequests of £1,000 to Emily THE ARMY FOR PEACE. water flows into the topmost pot tion of at least $1,500.
for quite fifteen minutes. Even to
The trafic was fairly heavy at the Mr. Leo d'Almada, aur, appear time and defendant was seen riding borough Street, Swindon, and five The peace policy of the Govern- the most logical mind it would seem ment is strongly endorsed in a Reservoir in the food season must asked for a date to be fixed for a
that the contents of Tytam Tuked on behalf of the defendant, and his motor cycle with his hauls of amounts of £100 to each of his firs the handlebars. Both bands were the remainder of the property to his sisters, the deceased's will leaves circular issued to-day over the have fallen from the pot held by hearing as soon as possible.
placed on the bead.
The defendant claimed that belece in view of her unfailing signatures of the ten colonels of the the fukt, which strange to say,
The defendant was unable to was trying to prevent bis hat from kindness to me over a period of appears to be still brimming fuli
many years."' re-organised Kwangtung Army. It while the smaller pots are still obtain the $2,000 naked as bail and being carried away by the wind.
A fine of 85 was imposed. asserts the need for peace and con-empty.
was remanded in police custody. tinuing the reconstruction policy in that he has nothing up bis sleeve, for 11a.m. this morning.
In another case, a taxi driver was And, as if still further to prove
• The Magistrate fixed the hearing fined $12 for speeding in Garder augurated by Marshal Li Tsai Hsin. Old Five Pots orders the inki to
Road. The police officer prosecut- ing said that the taxi in question Generous acknowledgment is made the smaller ones round for inspec- put down the large pot and pass
was No. 463 and in overtaking in- of the Marshal's work in all direction.
other taxi, it had to take a fairly An excited burst of chatter comes
sharp turn. The speed of taxi 463 tions, particularly the suppression from the onlookers, but-it-is-rapidly
A Chinese hawker was before Mad so great that for a few seconds, of disorder and brigandage, but it quieted an Old Five Pots bares to S Whyte-Smith for offering at was running only on two wheels
the waist...
bribe to an Indian constable. The the case of a public driver who A fine of 8i was also imposed in goes on to say that Kwangtung's
Fighting Devils.
hawker alleged that the constable pleaded guilty to speeding in Con participation in the war is more The biggest optimist could noted him. He suggested that the con.
asked for the bribe and then arrest-naught Road West. In this case, vely to endanger his life than to describe "Five Pots" as an athlete, stable was trying to win a medal for fendant drove out of Yardley Street a traffic officer stated that the de secure his release. This manifesto Rather, "one sees the fat paunch of
good service. aprosperous middle-aged Chinese.
and headed at a great speed for from the leading officers of the Army, Therefore, one finds it difficult to The Magistrate pointed out to Queen's Fier where a few. pasten has created a very favourable im- repress i smile when "Five Pots" the defendant that he should not gers had landed. The police officer,
Clenches his fists and proudly dis have given the money even if the who was on a motor cycle at the pression.
plays biceps slightly larger than constable had asked for it. In time, had to drive into the pier to The relief of the merchante in walnuts to the admiring onlookers. point of fact the constable would avoid a crash.
He then seizes a short and very, not have gone about to win, a re undisguised and restored confidence blant sword and commences to backward in the absurd manner suggest in the Government is reflected in and slash at the air about him. ed. the recovery of the Central Bank nates in the exchange market, and the lessening of the run on the Cen- tral Bank.
"
OFFERING A BRIBE,
ANOTHER RETURNED
BANISHEË.
jab at some invisible foe, who remarking that the defendant Every so often he makes a vigorous The Magistrate imposed a fine of judging by the dumb pantomime of
Five, Pots," is felled to the dust, evidently did not.realize the serious. Immediately after making these
ness of the offence. jabs, the old fellow points to the ground and gives the onlookers. what is apparently a description of TROOPS RETURN.
the powers and prowess of his fallen foe. Large numbers of the Cantonese "What is it all about we ask troops have been already brought of a Chinese youth wearing Oxford
whe. stands Dear. back from the Northern border by youth smiles pityingly at our ignor. the Hantow-Canton Railway, and ance.. will, in due course return to their many devils and do
1" he replies. good,"
Apparently the last devil is killed for. sword to his foki and commences "Five Pots" gravely hands bia
its orders to proceed to Shiukwan to dress. When he is again fully dad he gives a series of discordant
posts throughout the province. The The Canton Aviation Corps has had
The
"bags
+
A Chinese who was deported from the Colony last year for a period. T. S. Whyte-Smith with returning of ten years was charged before Mr. from banishment before his term had expired. He pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to six months' hard labour and 12 strokes of the birch.
4
WOMAN OPIUM CARRIER.
celled. General Hou King Tong, bangs at a gong, the foki prodices -in-C. of the 8th Army, who is now a table covered with a black cloth brought before Mr. T. 8. Whyte An elderly, Chinese woman was in Canton, will leave shortly for his and Fine Pots" dives, his hand Smith charged with unlawful posses mysteriously into a red box.sion of 6.5 tiels of prepared opiuma headquarters at Swatow. In con 'Aha," We think.
More and 4.8 taels of raw opium, found versation with local pressmen het not a bit of it
magic
on her as she alighted from the Can- heartily supported the policy of Pots" merely produces a handful
ton train, of black pilla, guaranteed to cure neutrality.
all ills, which he proceeds to retail at “one coat five piecie l'!,
It is hoped that General Chen Ming Shu will be able to leave Hong Kong in about ten day and resume his place at the head of the Provin cial Government
Five
The Magistrate said he had already issued a warning that he would increase the term of imprison-, As we turned away from the ment if the practice continued. crowd, we collided with a smart Although the quantity involved was Buick car which was, standing in smaller than in a previous case the the gutter and learned to our sur sentence must be increased. The Prise
that it belonged- to. * Five | woman was fined $800 or four Pots "1
months' hard labour
Chinese Estaten.
Letters of administration have been granted to Fang, Mok Shi, of 2C, Hill, Road, second. Boor, the widow of Fung Sik Fac, merchant, of 4, Aimar Terrace, Kowloon, who ceased left property of an assessed died on February 6, 1928. The de value of 88,610.
Probate of the will of Chan Tai Shan District, Kwangtung, widow, Kre, late of Ki. Ling Village, Toi who died in February, 1996, has heen granted, to U. Ting,
of 47 Queen's Road West, Hong Kong, who is the survivor of two bons-men- tioned as the beneficiaries, Value of property amounts to $24,525.
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Oh, where and oh, where is the Beacon gone Ob where, and oh, where can it be 1. With it's one fight off, and it's one light os Which always seemed stupid to me!..
One clue suggests that private car Ran oven the thing by mistake, With pirates, you never know where you are, But what a sound error to make!
The Resolute on her joy-ride trip They tell me has just been in port, Which shows perhaps that a tourist ship May be less of a curse than we thought.
Another sokition occurs to me;
The chaps that once stole the Club stocks May have borrowed the Beacon to breed, maybe
A cop, that both signals nüd walks.
Whenever I pass the Departinent's Hend
I whistle this beautiful air,
But his buttons don't flash, at me green and red,
So I don't think the Beacon is there.
Oa, where and oh, where can the Beacon bc,. With its lights that flash off and first, on 1 The answer undoubtedly is Magici "Thank goodness, the darned thing is gone.
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