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WEATHER REPORT,

The weather report, forecast and remarks issued by the Royal Obser- vatory, Hong Kong, at 4.50 p.m. yesterday, etata p

The anti-cyclone remains over S. Manchuria, the depression is situat ed nent "Oshiwa, moving north-east. Loral forecast:-Northerly winds, moderate, And, generally.

Bn ex-

BANDITS AGAIN ACTIVE.

FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES GETTING SERIOUS,

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]

formerly smuggled in from Kwong Announcement has been made of The Prague court has pronoune KWANGSI TROUBLES. Chow Wan, but for various reasons the engagement of Mr. William ed sentence in the trial of the mem there has been little of the drug coming into the Colony from that. Baker of the National Bible Sobers of the gipsy band at Kosice, direction. It being very difficult-ciety of Scotland, Hankow, to who are accused of murder, rob- if not impossible for Shanghai Miss Eleanor Pattison of the bery and cannibalism on importers to obtain Indian opium China Inland Mission, London. tensive scale. A wild, illiterate from licensed dealers at Kwong Chow Wan, the price of the drug

and debased gang, these men have has gone up to extraordinary figures Mr. Loo Haing Sheng. Chinese confessed to cold-blooded crimes. —'as much as $25,000 per chest being resident of French Concession, whose atrocity has aroused a thrill mentioned. During last year about 700 seizures of raw and prepared Shanghai, was fined 81,740 in the of horror throughout the country. opium were made in the Colony, French Mixed Court when be Three leaders of the band were but there is no evidence that Hong pleaded guilty to trafficking in condemned to "imprisonment for

The opium, valued at life. Kong is being used as it was formerly-ca centre for large opium, opium deals. Only four seizures about $4,000, was seized from his Manila, Sept. 8, 7.10 p.m. were made of opium in transit.

residence and was ordered to be A cyclone or typhoon is reported Two large seizures were made in near or over the Bashi Channel, fill-1028 on the other side of the Pacific confiscated. ing up.

of opium actually shipped from Hong Kong amongst other cargo" It is considered probable, however, that in these two cases the actual shippers in this Colony 'neted quite innocently as the shipping agents of firms established elsewhere.

Manila, Sept 8, 7.10 p.m.

A typhoon is reported in about 133 deg. Long. E. and 27 deg. Lat. Xre-curving North-eastward.

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Four Chinese were sentenced to death and one was dismissed on three counts of armed kidnapping and one charge of armed robbery by Judge Chen and Deputy Whits more in Provisional Court. The dismissed man was ordered to be kept in custody of police pending appeal

Wuczow, Sept. 5.

Bandit activity has broken out afresh on the West River between A Turkish schoolboy, aged 17, Wuchow and Kongbow. This week appeared in the Stambul Crimin-

rifle-ärg from bandita on the shore al Court on a charge of murder-

killed etudent, and seriously ing his aunt, aged 19, for riding! Batride. He declared that he was wounded another when the bandits summoned by the imam (priest) of attacked a Konghow best which his city district, who complained

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to him regarding what he consi was bound for Wuchow. It is also dered the girl's offence against old reported bandits attacked Kong- world decency: When he remona how city, doing some looting before "trated with her she said that

Turkish women were free to do being driven away. what they liked, and he thereupon

avenged the family honour."

The Government is ecuding troops to take care of this situa tion, which threatens business be- Dr. Lang, Archbishop of Canter- bury, was given a civic reception tween here and such cities as Naa- at Dover recently on his first visit ning, the capital, and Liuchów.

The recent military campaign to the town since his enthronement. Dr. Lang said that English people were being hustled out of tacir between former Governor Wang hold upon things that were un Shao Hung and the Government

eternal. seen and

People were troops bas placed Kwangsi in dee- finding it almost impossible to be still in the perpetual rush of perate financial need. It remains modern life. "I venture to plead to be seer whether any material rather earnestly," he said, that progress will be made in road- one of the most practical ways we can serve our country is by keep the present roade in good condi- building, to say nothing of keeping ing still and quiet,"

It is not true that any carpan has

Beautiful photographs by London artist, depicting" various types of spectacle frames of Bri-left his grave and walked off the tish manufacture, are being shown cemetery of Arekho-Zuyer. The in the window of Mesars, Lazarus. denial, indeed, is made officially by The photographs will be changed the Soviet authorities as Arekho every few days, and will show the Zuyev through an advertisement in correct frame for various uses such the local paper, Kolatushka. The a golfing, motoring, reading, story that a corpse had broken evening wear, etc.

through the restraints of the grave on the very day of his burial had spread throughout the suburbs of The death has occurred at the Moscow. For a few days it was Italian Hospital, Tientsing of ignored by the authorities, but known Belgian missionary from ed to issue a formal denial. How Father Edmond Rubbens, a well- then it grew so tall that they decid- Mongolia, in his 70th year.

The ever,

newspaper advertisement deceased was born in Belgium on cannot expect to have the same Nov. 20, 1850, and for a period of force as a word-of-mouth rumour, 45 years has been conducting mis- and for thousands of Arckho-Zuyev sionary work in China, principally residents the yarn still holds good. in Mongolia, where he founded the first Belgian Mission,

That smuggling of liquor and drugs is likely to be completely pro vented nobody realising the existing conditions will expect. There are in the Colony some 12,000 small craft which are supposed to be fish. ing-bonts, but the gear ordinarily

1. Robbe, the aviator who flew used for catching fish is rarely found on board when preventiye to Hong Kong from Haiphong on officers stop these craft on suspicion May 18 last, has been promoted to and make an examination. Many the rank of Officer of the Legion of these boats have the significant nickname of "rat indicating that of Honour, in recognition of his aerial work in Indo-Chins and the they are the homes of water ruta". These cockle-shrils appear to have Far East. M. Robbe is the Deputy SMUGGLING IN HONG KONG, no economic reason for existence Director of a big French aviation yet they do oxist and persist. Their occupants obviously do not make a company, with beadquarters in would bo An imaginative

living by fishing when they have no Paris. optimist who could expect to find tackle aboard. and they are too a scrap of material for thrilling small and too slow to be used for carrying passengers from port to stories, or even novels, in

part. Until some method of stricter authoritative publication entitled control of these 12,000 tiny craft is Report of the Superintendent of devised, the smuggling of opium, liquor, tobacco, and trms will Imports and Exports for the year fourish. It is considered probable 1999." In any other place in the that most of the illicit opium sold world where such an official state- in Hong Kong is kept on small boats in the harbour in quantities ment was published, one would ex:

not exceeding a few hundred taels. pect to find a detailed analysis of It can be taken ashore by boat- the trade of the port. Quantities women, concealed on their persons and values of merchandise, Taw to the purchasers ashore.

in small quantities, and taken direct

Boat material, and natural produce im women engaged in smuggling of this ported and exported, countries and character can afford to be bold, for they are exempt from search unless ports of shipment and destination-they meet a female Chinese Revenue the facts and figures Officer, of whom there are only a usually associated with an official few. Liquor is brought into the report on imports and exports--but Colony in what are supposed to be fishing-junks, worked by two men not in Hong Kong. Here we are and a boy. These vessels have a given much more romantic material flush deck, with the hold divided into watertight compartments, and -not so informative, certainly, but make the run to Hong Kong from mach. more interesting to the Macao so as to arrive at Aberdeen general reader who is not greatly or Shaukiwan under cover of dark-chancellor of the Peiping national concerned about sach matters as the ness, Here, then, is ample material for amateur, or even professional, balance of trade, and fluctuations writers to build up a thrilling story in the value and volume of com- of modern smugglers-all of it mercial transactions. In Hong authentic information published in an official report. Nor have we cr- Kong-with certain exceptions-no hausted the interesting revelations statistics are kept of goods imported of the crafty methods of waterfront companies guard their manifests from Macao by putting it into and exported, and the shipping crooks. They make brandy

closely and decline to reveal one of genuine branded bottles, mixed with the secrets contained therein to any colouring matter and favouring but holders of a bill of lading essence. A nice new cork, and a

neatly printed label almost com- The Superintendent of Imports and pletes the fraud, but now there Exports in Hong Kong is concerned comes a master touch of impudence. solely with the movement of those The tobacco-duty labels used by the Macno authorities are very similar in appearance to the labels used in Hong Kong by the excise officers for marking duty paid liquor, so. the Hong Kong makers of "brandy" boldly affix a Portuguese tobacco label as further proof of the genuineness of their poisonous stuff

these are

Dr. Hu Shib, noted Chinese philosopher with an international reputation, will be appointed vice

University if Mr. Chen Ta Chi in- sists on resigning from that posi- tion, says the North China Stan dard. Mr. Hu is at present presi dent of the China University in Woosung. He had been connected with the local university for many years and has a large following from among the students.

commercial alcohol smuggled in

News and Views.

commodities which are taxable or prohibited liquor, tobacco, opium, dangerous, druga, and arms.

Since it is the business of the Superintendent to keep close and accurate account of trade in these things, certain other people are no less active in trying to evade his earnest attention. Here it is that the reader of this official report for 1828 gets on the fringe of romance health over the week-end. and thrilling adventure. For ex- ample, we learn that a very con- siderable quantity of Chinese liquor is amaggled into the Colony-chiefly from Macao-by mail fishing-junka.

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China's Handicap.

tion.

While trade is picking up, the amount is not up to the mark of this time a year ago. If conditions are to improve, banditry must be suppressed and the Government be in such a financial condition that they can lift certain taxes levied on cargo at the present time at inland ports.

The West River is falling rapidly, being to-day only 20 feet 3 inches, as compared with 52 feet two weeks ago.

The Peter Pan of the Labour Party.

Mr. A. J. Cook has often dis- played a touching simplicity which should make him a strong can- didate for a berth in the kingdom of heaven, but he has never so diretly proclaimed himself a "lit the child' as he did the other day in Leicestershire. "I am the orphan of the storm," he said. "I am the Peter Fan of the Labour party Well, by a curious coinci dence Mr. D. W. Griffith's famous film "Orphans of the Storm" was shown at a Manchester picture

theatre at that time. As to the Peter Pan analogy, it opens up

some

interesting possibilities. Who, for instance, is the Smee of the Labour party? Who is the Wendy? And did Mr. Cook re- flect that in comparing himself to Peter Pan he was condemning himself to perpetual sojourn in the Never, Never Land.

Looking Back 25 Years.

The Kilt Society of Inverness, it is announced. "is about to issue authoritative regulations on how wear the dress correctly." Can it be that with the influx of the Sassench to the shootings the old habit of twisting the thing round one's waist and buckling it there is being departed from Breathes there a man with soul se dend as to hang it round his neck and use it as an improvised macintosh, or, having punched holes in it for his arms, as a kind of jerkin? Or is it merely that some neophyte chief lain from Park Lane has offended the purista of the Society by get- Mr. T. H. Whitehead, who has ting his pleats to the front, hang

the presented

Royal Empire ing his sporran over his hip, and Society with a £1,000 bond, basing his skean dhu as a toothpick i been a Life Fellow of the society Details should be interesting. for the post 35 years, and from 1805 to 1002 served as its honorary corresponding secretary in Hong

Major Dopping Hepenstal's Kong, where he was for many

At the recent general meeting (R.E.) office at Head Quarters is. years valued member of the of the British Association in quite a little museum of patents. Legislative Council. After

28 Johannesburg Sir Thomas Hol Foremost is an inkstand, invented years' work in the East with the land, Rector of the Imperial Colby the Major. When the pen is Chartered Bank of India, Australege of Science, South Kensington, lifted from it, the lid of the ink- lia and China, be returned from in the course of his presidential bottle opens automatically; and it Hong Kong to England in 1902 19 address, spoke of the disadvantages thuts again when the pen is replac London Manager of that Bank, of the East in connection with the ed. The holder keeps the pen in

essential deposits of minerals ou a most convenient manner. and retired from its service in

which a mechanised form of civili- similar appliance is used for ṛub- sation is based. Referring to ber-stamps; there Are Dopping- China, he said: "When China Hepetstal patent filles; patent ar was still an unknown land it was rangement for copying; and even possible for after-dinner speakers patents for keeping dust from to impress non-critical hearers by plans. All simple, yet very cle- talk of the yellow peril' and the ver.-Hong Kong Daily Press, 'challenge of Asia,' but these ex-

Sept. 10, 1804. pressions have been used without thought of the circumstance that Looking Back 50 Years,.. natural resources in minerals now We have no desire because this a British Colony to write set a rigid limit to power, whe-is

cert- We against Chinese fetes and ther industrial or military. have known for some time of the monies, but when the observance of natural limitations of India, of such tend to endanger the lives and Japan, "and of smaller political property of the community; a word, units in the East, but until very or two upon the subject cannot be. recently we have had insuficiently out of place. The Colony has to precise data for estimating the be congratulated upon the tez- quantitative value of the terma mination without accident of the vast and unlimited' which recent monster fete held in Holly- have been so often applied to wood Road outside the Man. Mo China. Assuming that China may Mui. This festival is called Shau- yet become a homogeneous nation-i, for the burning of clothes, and al unit, or even assuming that her | during a period of fifteen days resources may become developed by garments made of coloured paper Japanese energy, there is very are burnt so that they may pasa little doubt now that, as an in-into the invisible world for the dustrial area, the country is de benefit of deceased relatives; and ficient in those minerals that form prayers are also recited and food

1920.

Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., sole agents in Hong Kong and South China for Henry Hope & Sons, Ltd. Birmingham, have been ad The Colony had a clean bill of vised that their principals have

The forthcoming wedding is an- nonnoed between Mr. James Albert Bendall, of the Hong Kong Civil Service, residing at 13, Broadwood Rand, to Miss Louisa Helen

Long 251, Birmingham.

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secured the entire contract for the roof lights of Fords' new motor factory at Dagenham, Essex. This valuable order, amounting to more than 20,000, includes Hope's patent glazing continuous opening lights, the gearing for which will be | Last year more than 3,300 gallons| Sigston, of

operated electrically. A short time of such liquor was seized-how much

ago Hopes supplied the whole of the metal windows, skylights, and was not intercepted nobody knows.

door furniture for the Imperial The engagement is announced Chemical House, Millbank, London, Shaukiwan and Aberdeen are between Mr. Hubert Miller Browze, an immense seven-storied building parently the centres of this illicit youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. forming the headquarters of Im- business, while Yaumati is a fav Percy L. Browne, of Cullercoats, perial Chemical Industries, Ltd. ourite place for dumping smuggled Edith, third daughter of Mrs. Northumberland, and "Gertrude spirits of wine, until wanted for King, and the late Capt. D. A. G. blending with other spirits. This King, of Robe

One day it will be possible to illicit liquor is brought to Hong

remain permanently youthful, and Mr. H. F Greenfield. Peping even live for ever, according to Pro- Kong from Macao, and a

manager for Messrs. 6. Moutric fessor . A. E. Crew, of Edinburgh method of concealing it has been and Co., Ltd., was married to Miss University. "It has been abuad-

the essential basework of the mo- offered for those who have noch discovered. Junks make their way Ada Konovalova of Tientsin in a catly demonstrated that life can, to the breakwater at Yaumati, and civil, ceremony at the British Lega- and does, continue without yeeandern form that civilisation has de drowned at sea. The show caver- And the cbvious ed the whole space in front of the tion, Peping, followed the next ing," he said, speaking at the finitely taken.

It is limit in development, as defined by Man Mo Mui out to the strect drop two glass demijohns over evening by a wedding in Pei Kuan Social Hygiene School. board. Both are enclosed in wicker Russian Church.

possible to take a fat worm and by local natural resources, can be exchannel, and considerably more work, and are connected by a rope

repeated processes of starvation tended only to a limited degree by than the entire length of the build-

the importation of raw materials | ing on both sides of the street. A marriage took place on Septem- keep it alive 20 times longer than about twenty feet long. An cheer..

from other areas; for a country | kind of "guard-house occupied the vation is taken by the smugglers of ber 10, between George Ronald, it would have lived in the ordinary

can buy metals only by the ex- east end, arranged like the gate- eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G., way. "A man knows the causes of some landmark, so that they the Hutton Potts, of Riverside, Wall, ageing, the cause of the loss of the change of other products: its buy guards of a Chinese city, at which find the approximate position of the ingford, and Shanghai, and Janet, proteins, and when he knows the ing powers are limited by its sel was stationed a number of dis- Abundant cheap trict watchmen, with piles of submerged jars of spirit when want- ed. At the first convenient moment elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. methods by which that loss may be ling powers. they return to Yaudati in a small. Wilkes, Upland Drive, Green- replaced he may prolong his life labour, assisted by a semi-tropical pikes, swords hung round, and so. indefinitely. As knowledge in-climate, can produce an exportable on and on the opposite side was boat, and start dredging around the wich, Conn., USA.

creases," the Professor continued, surplus of foodstuffs only in limit a fire-engine, the utmost capacity spot where the liquor was dumped

"na increase it must, so also will

ed parts of the Far East; even of which asemed to be & stream of until the connecting-rope between At Sotheby's in London laat man's power over his physical en-

the so-called luxury products, water that would be suitable for the jars ie found. The rest in casy-month, a Chinese Cup and saucer vironment and over the mechanism

which to our carly navigators watering pot plants. The lesson provided the police are not also of the X'ang Hsi period (1882-1722) | that is himself. Science as well as

formed, the inspiration of what we of last "Christmas seems really to dredging 1

was bid for up to £210, despite the religion affirms that in the future call geographical research, are now be lost upon the authorities, so Opium is smuggled into this act that the saucer was broken. mankind may, if it be so desired, obtained elsewhere, and some are little has been done to reduce the only remain permanently being replaced by artificial pro- chances of an extensive conflagra Colony mainly from Wuchow and At Christie's on the same day a not

ducts evolved from the chemical tion to a minimum.--Hong Kong Macao, and business appears to be Chinese blue and gold dinner ser- youthful, but also may live for

laboratory."

Daily Press, Sept. 10, 1879. quite brisk Indian opium was vice realised £1,200,

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