Hong Kong lawn bowlers part- cipated in the British Empire Games at White City yesterday. Page 10 Other British, Empire Games results are given on Page 8.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Two cases of typhoid fever were reported in the Colony during the 24 hours ended August 3,
The R. M. 6. Empress of Japan is due at Vancouver on August 14, is expected back here on Septem- ber 14
mitted here, and the law is very glad to bring the culprits to heel when it can catch them. Iri America leniency was one of the In a recent issue Bishop Hall causes of the flourishing state or raised the question of the abolition gangsters, and it was not until the of the capital punishment in Hongerand jury was brought in with Kong. Naturally such a matter powers to hang even kidnappers' would need the most careful con-" that some of these evils were over- sideration. The suggestion that come. The death penalty is a very Hong Kong should be used for a great deterrent in this colony, PIECE GOODS SMUGGLING son of the Traffic in Women of tor in 1810 twenty-year experiment during which such punishment would not
last year's Assembly of the League He joined the 4th Devonshire be carried out would seem to be
The present Lord Nelson is ac of Nations. Recently it was an- Regt, and at the outbreak of war very dangerous. What advance the with the Bishop's plea, we can Dealing a blow to rayon amuganounced from Geneva that the went to India with them. He later tually a descendant of the Trafal world has seen during the last hardly think that Hong Kong is agiers operating along the China Secretariat of the League of saw service in Mesopotamia atar hero's brother-the arst Nel
son had no children—the Rev. WU- twenty centuries in humane pro- suitable place to start an experi-Coast, a Shanghai Customs Pre-Nations had received the last two Kut, where be was awarded the gress is almost entirely due to ment. It would be better to try ventive Force cruiser seized ap
Ham Nelson, a Protestant clergy ratifications needed to bring the Meritorious Service Medal after an Christianity. This is a conclusion it in England first.
man proximately six tons of artificial Convention into force. The Con- action at Belt Alessa, and return- Nothwithstanding, humane ideas silk yarn, valued at $50,000, from operation on August 24
Convention into force ni mtu ed to Exeter in 1919. Be lives a secluded is the last arrived at by one, who has spent his life studying the subject, Loring have made a very rapid develop the Japanese motor launch Fuku
He has always been keenly in- of its kind and has frequently Brace in Gesta Christi. Regarding ment in the last two centuries. In maru-off-Woosung. The smugglers
According to the international terested in the Territorial move- the death penalty he states, "One the year 1788 the Government boat is now anchored near the agreements at present in force, ment, and already holds the Ter- en discussed in the House of remarkable advance in humanity, selected Captain Arthur Phillip to Westmore Road River Police Sta- offence If the woman is under clasp. He is a fine shot, and was trame in women, is a criminal, ritorial - efficiency medal, with due to religious forces, should not take command of an expedition of ion in Shanghai. be passed over the gradual miti- convicts to Australia. This officer
twenty-one or if being over promoted to the rank of company- gation of severe and affictive" was a man of high character, and, her cargo, which, followed that of tim of force, or fraud. This sp-
Seizure of the Fuku-maru and twenty-one, she has been the vic- sergeant-major five years ago. In a certain order. It all worked waters of the Colony. punishments to those sentenced by for those times, not devoid of
two fishing trawlers on June 20 piles equally to international traf- and the doing away with Humanity."I doubt," he wrote, and 30, is believed to be the third i fic and to that within the frontle that what pleased him most was | King It was necessary to do thing swalt collection at the Gov-
He life.
Commons.
Talking of his impressions at the with clockwork precision, and with ceremony, C. B. M. Grimes said so many to be presented to the
The monthly meeting of the
· Chinese General Chamber of Com- to-morrow at
merce will bechando es premises.
To avoid the pollution of bath- ing beaches, ships masters are re quested not to dump ashes, dun- nage or garbage, etc., within the
Radio telegrams for the follow-
Hongkong Hotel. His subject will speaker at to-day's tion at the
be Hongkong Rotary Topics
regard the Christian system as man of no principle from commiting to smuggle artificial slik yarn agreements. When the new Con-uniform as he stood in the one necessarily opposed to the deathing a bad action." Yet though he into China within the past few vention comes into force a traffic-State room with the members of began to move towards the State
"After a time the procession man Hill Rd. 9, First Floor Hong-
kong, and Wychhazel, Hongkong. punishment in all cases, but as had found that men were never weeks, Giming to limit it only to the most deterred from desperate deeds by
ker will be llable to punishment his suite around him his Majesty | room in which the King was extreme instances of crime. Nor fear of being executed for them, ers, the Fuku-maru carried a gang one country to another, even if health.
As in the case of the two trawl when the woman is-removed from looked fine and the picture of standing I was able to have a A Memorial Service for the late are the Christian teachings respon- he seems to have fancied that they of smugglers without national she is over twenty-one and even "There was not much oppor-greatly struck to see him looking Kennedy Road to-day, at 11 am. good look towards him, and I was will be held at the Union Church
Reichspresident von Hindenburg
xible for any of the false sentiment might be appalled at the threat of papers. of the modern world towards those being sent away to be eaten:
If she consenta. This measure will tunity for the King to talk to so well. Then came my name and The cause for comment on the bave two main resulta In the anyone as he presented the my turn. The King presented me guilty of crime. The teaching of At any rate, he made the extra- appearance of the Fuku-maru, Brst place, it will make it possible honours to the various people, with the medal, a handshake, and Alz. T. B. Wilson, will be the Chris and the apostles evidently ordinary proposal, that If any of powered by a diesel engine, is tha to apply the earller agreements on the sergeant major added, "but I passed on. do not look upon death as the the people under his charge should the boat has a square and abbre- their international side, for in there was a wealth of cordicuity greatest of evils: nor do they dis- be convicted of murder or another viated stern, Indicating that it was order to evade them, it has only in his handing the medal and courage severe penalties on wrong offence, they should be kept in probably cut on. Another unusual been necessary to obtain forged handshake with one. foers There is no direct instrus-bonds until they could be handed circumstance concerning the boat papers declaring a gift to be over Bon in regard to the death penalty ever to the New Zealand, savages is that her name, Fuku-maru, is twenty-one to enable a tramcker any more than on a thousand to be killed for meat
painted on a smallboard, which to take her to foreign country almilar topics. The inference from Therefore this subject has been has evidently been nailed over This device will now be useless the teachings might fairly be, that exercising men's minds for miny some former name under which, In the second place, it wil make 30 valuable a thing as human life, years, but we should hardly think the boat was operated.
it a crime at least in international with the tremendous destinies of that Hong Kong is the most The artificial silk yarn was all dealings to make money out o "the the soul, must be very carefully suitable place in the British empire contained in runny bags, reported immoral earnings of another per- names
nd reverently dealt with, not for any experiment.
to be over 100 in number,
After I had extended congratu- lations, O 8 M. Grinder said he was then on to the Union Jack We were in the Arst instance Club, and afterwards to see a few shown into the long picture gal of the sights of London. lery), where there was plenty of Mich the same proceedings took opportunity of seeing the fine place when the King pres ated the pictures which hang there, he medal of the continued: “Eventually an omicial Fife, who
and
our front of 0 8. us to take up rtain order of present that we th Enter in the Palace,
position
The Inaugural meeting of the Hongkong Chung Hua Shing Kung held at the Cathedral Hall last Wa Young Peoples Fellowship was
evening at 1:30 pm
Dfect of the Fellowani
tito and service.
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