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ARMED GANGSTERS IN HANKOW

POLICEMAN SHOT

·Aiten, a long period during which no policeman in the Concession aren at Hankow has been fired upon by criminals, an armed nian opened fire on a policeman in the ex- Russian Concession on April 22 and inflicted injuries from which the victim is not likely to recover. Ac cording to the information furnish- ed by the police, three men wanted

WHALE CAUGHT AT AMOY.

TRAPPED IN HARBOUR.

LEFT HIGH AND DRY BY

RECEDING TIDE,

METEOROLOGISTS' CONFERENCE.

SUCCESSFUL TERMINATION.

The Conference of Directors of Far Eastern Weather Services was brought to a successful termination yesterday.

The Six-letter Code for the trans mission of daily weather telegrams An event of peculiar interest, and by cable, proposed by the Director at the Hong Kong Observatory was worthy of record, says the Amoy adapted, and a lost storm Signal correspondent of the North China Cotte, based upon the Hong Kong and Manila Codes, was agreed Daily News, writing under date upon, thanks to concessions made April 14, took place in Amoy a few by the Director of the Philippines Weather Bureau. Concessions were for various crimes had been living days ago, when a large sized whale falso made by Mr. Claxton, subject } in the Kin Han Hotel, in the French voluntarily entered the harbour Concession, but arrangements could and got himself caught, not by not be made for their arrest by the human power, but by a trap set French police. On the night in by Nature. Mr. Whale was entirely question, the three left the hotel too slow for a rapidly ebbing tide, and hired a carriage. This was which left him behind en a very followed by a pelice officer and de small island gasping for breath, or

rather for water.

tectives in rickshas till it crossed the boundary of the French Con-

cession and entered the ex-Russian Concession, near the Chinese YM.C.A. building.

During the afternoon of March 27,193, when the tide was higher At that point, a signal was given than usual, the monster passed all to, the policeman on point duty to the way through this harbour, then hold up the traffe, and the detec-round to the north-west of the tives attempted to close in on the criminals, who immediately jumped from the carriage and made off in different directions. Two plunged down alleyways leading into the maze of smail roads between the Concession area and the railway line, but the third rushed into the Y.M.C.A. He was followed by the policeman and opened fire in the small basin between two of these lobby, the three bullets hitting the islands. There he must have taken policeman in the bead, the neck änd

接迩 afternoon siesta; and later. the back. As soon as he had fired, the villain jumped from a site winduw of the lobby and dashed back

island of Kulangsu, near the main- land, and stopped between the shore and a group of very small islands. Just at the moment when the tide was at its highest, this whale evi, dently glided over a sand bar inte

awoke with surprise to find himself

surrounded by land, and to feel

to the French Concession. An the water in which he was lying Annamite policeman fired two shots at him, but probably neither took rapidly receding. Struggle as he effect, as the man continued his might, he was like a ship aground, flight and go away.

stuck hard and fast.

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The Villagers Feast. While fighting for his life, the whule madh so much noise that it attracted the "attention of some fishermen near by. Wild and fear- ful rumours quickly spread to the

in the neighüourhood villages Such a monster had never been seen nor heard of before. Some even thought it was the King of the sea who had been sinful, and who had been condemned in this manner to be killed.

There were others, however; who thought differently. This was not bad luck, but the very best luck

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The amended Non-local Sterm Signal Code proposed by Mr. Clax cussion, and on the restoration of ton was adopted after lengthy dis

Signal No. 9 of Table 3 (continental Froc. depression) at the request of Father

Agreement was arrived at in re gard to the data to be asked for from ships, and the form in which it should be transmitted In ad- dition to the information asked for in Notice to Mariners No. 32% of June 1, 1923, abips are asked to give visibility and surface temperature tion with fog forecasts. of the Sea, principally in connec

It is hoped that the new codes will come into force in March, 1931. synoptic broadcasts was not dealt "The question of overlapping in with, owing to the absence of any delegates from Japan, which was deplored:

ATTACK ON A JUNK.

STRANGE REPORT MADE TO THE POLICE.

tack by a gang of men and women An extraordinary story of an at- on a junk was related to the police yesterday, apparently by part of the crew who anoceeded in camping by a dinghy and boarding another craft bound for Hong Kong.

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one was hurt.

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Early next morning, Mr. Sis Hong-gosa, professor of Biology and head of the Department of Science of Tung Wen Institute, heard of the capture of the whale, and rushed to the scene hoping to preserve the creature for scientific study. He was too late. Little was left of the whale by villagers andTo write off furniture fishermen.

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Mr. Sia rescued a portion of the spine, and the head minus the upper jaw and eyes. Eyes of fish are highly prized as food delicacies, and it is reported that the eyes of this whale were worth from three to four hundred dollars.

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A Very Big Specimen." That it was really a big fish, its dimensions give ample proof. As measured by the fishermen, and they produced the string with which they had taken their measurements, this whale was 26ft. and 12ft. in circum ference. The inside width of the mouth was slightly over two feet, while its length was five feet. The diameter of the largest vertebra. Savings bonds reserve was nine inches, and its circum-Reserve for amortiza ference was 2ft. Gina. The weight tion of founders share- of the same vertebra was 9lb Contingencies fand pounds, avoirdupois. The lower Mathematical reserve jaw bone was Sift. in length and weighed 21 pounds. According to the most conservative, estimates, the entire weight of the monster was not less than 2,500 lb.

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A LAME EXCUSE, When charged at the Central Magistracy yesterday with washing clothes at a newly constructed dem. at Aberdeen, a Chinese explained that a coat which he hung out on

Curiously enough the name of the small island on which the whale was caught is White Elephant Island. Another whale of the same species (Mystacoceti)was caught in Amoy harbour on August 29, 1924, the bamboo pola to dry blew into the skeleton of which was later mount water, and he went in after it. In ed, and may now be seen in the attempting to retrieve the coat, a zoological museum of the University towel which he carried about with of Amoy. This one was only about him as a sweat cloth, also dropped half the size of the whale just re-into the water. cently caught, being only 14ft. long, as reported in the November pum ber of the China: Journal, 1994;

Unluckily for him, the prosecution informed the Bench that there were actually two men in the water at Willies Edugat in Amby inductio Jong to the group pomoidly knower Waterworks Department, who hea as whale-bone whales," because of seen the men, was only able to the valuable substance they have in arrest one of them. It had appear- their upper jaws known as balleened to Mr. Tacchi that not only were or whale-bone. Members of this the men washing clothes but them group do not have ordinaty teeth solves as well

as possessed by, other toothed Defendant was fined: whales" (Odontoceti).

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