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CORRESPONDENCE.

[The opinions expressed by borres- pondents are not necessarily thos of the ". Hongkong Telegraph."]

́- SATURDAY'S BOXING.

To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph."]'

were very

VOLUNTEER MEDAL PRESENTED,

Comlag Reorganisation of

the Corps.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1917.

KIDNAPPING CASE.

|How a Lad was Held to Ransom,

The Criminal Saamions were continued this morning before the |Chief Justion (Sir William Rees Davies), the case heard being that jë which two Chinese, nămed

Sir,-The followers of the noble.

There was a very large muster Targ 841-tsal and Tang Obau-ting art are certainly under an obliga.

of the Bongkong Volunteer Corps respectively, were charged with tion to Staff Inspector Wilden for

on the Marray Parade Ground armed robbery and kidnapping at the very excellent programe last evening, a full parede being Nim Wan, Deep Bay Now be staged last Saturday night. eslled for the purpose of the pre- Territory, on August 8, 1915. The competitors

Mr. G. N. Orme prosecnted on well matobed and they showed sentation, by His Excellency the

Governor, of a. Leng Service beb.lf of the Crown, and the willingness that

augura

Medel to Sergeant Major A. J. Prioners, who pleaded not guilty, the. falic art in the future. My plaint is Mackie, who has ten a member were undefended.

The following comprised the of the Corps for 20 years. against Referee Bailey. In my opinion, and in the opinion of Prior to the presentation, jury-Mesara. J. H, Erin, L. quite a multitude of others, not the Corps was addressed by Daabar, W. E Cook, W. Galdes- only was Mr. Bailey's vision im-Col. Ubapman, V.D., who has berg, J. Buck, C. W. Olsen, and paired, but his judgment also. been the popular Commandant. L. A. Costa.

well for

He all better

The second prisoner was also amongst the

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TO-MORROW, 23rd. „May, at 6 P.M.

Collection in aid of Scottish Women's

In outlining the facts, Mr. Is the fight between Fox and He announced that as the Corps Koch, he allowed Fox to areas to be enterely re-organised Orme said that the case was

he was severing his connection serious one. Nim Was was one his head unfairly on

In the 2ad with it, lo a few well-cho of the most distant parts of the erons, coossĵons,

words he wished all ranks good- New Territory, and there wa round Fox closed Koch's left eye with his bead and continued to be, and expressed bis thanks to carried on there a large salt dry- batt his opponent without ad- bath officers and men for the ing business. The master, an old monition until the bout faished. assistance they had rendered m8o, was away at the time of the

him.

Foccurrence, but he had left in Again, in the Smith Simes fight,

Hia

bis Excellency.

charge who was

GOD, aged 19,| how Mr. Bailey osme to the con- clusion that Smith won in a cormpanied by Captain Ed. together with a number of fokie. mystery to those who are conver-arde side-le-camp, was met On the night of August 8, 1915, sant with the game, as it was by Bis Excellency the General the men were all assembled (Major together, when they were earpris obrious to any impartial observer. Oficer Commanding that from the 3rd round to the General Yentris) and Captained by the appearance of about les finieb Smith was easily outpointed. Caarel. General Staff Officer, men, armed with rifes and re- In the Richarde-Brannigan für His Excellency then inspected volvere. Leading the way was the first prisoner, and he seemed to it was anything but a fight. Re the Corps.

In presenting the medal to be the leader of the gang, for he feree Bailey allowed Brannigan to commit filigrant breaches of the Sergeant Major Mackie, His gave his name aloni, sa though rules. The rale distinctly states Excellency said: Sergeant Majorit was a name of terror-

exid they had MA great that bolding an opponent will Mackie, it affords meritTM disqualification, yet the pleasure to present to you to-day look out, and he also gave Referee allowed Brannigan to hold the Long Service Medal, which address in China where they

you have earned by twenty years could find bim. Оп the whole of the 10 rounds.

The only time that the Battl r¡ continuous service with the Hong armed men, and be was in fact ! was not hanging round Richarde kong Volunteer Corps. I con- neck was when the gong sent the gratulate you on earning this elder brother of the first. The men to their corners. Again a medal, and it affords me peculiar matabed was ranescked and about lack of knowledge or judgment. pleasure to present it to you, be $600 was taken away, as well no In the Ahearn-Royal bout in the case, your father served with me rifle, two muskets and a quan- 2ad round, Royal forced Abeara in the Hongkong Police for nine tity of clothing. The robbers through the rope,. After falling years, and daring that time he also kidoapped the master's only through the ropes Abearn got to rendered to me and to the Gorernon, rowing out to a junk in the his feet and endeavoured to enter ment the most excellent service. I vicinity and making of ia the direction of Macao. They landed the ring. Royal was on the other see that you have followed in the

on one of the islands there, where "side of the ropes menacing footsteps of your father.

Addressing the Corps, His are oyster beds, and kept the lad Abearn's entry. The fact that

in dave for nine days. In the Ahearn was on his feet quite jus- Excellency said:Officers, DOD-

meantime, the first prisoner was tified Royal'a action. Had Ahearn commissioned officers and men

of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps, seen at Macao and the father with crawled through the ropes upon

an official bargained for the his hands and knees, then just before I came on the ground Royal would have been bound L. Col. Chapman told you that return of the boy, the prisoner back and let him ander a re-organisation scheme asking $20,000 as ransom. This enter. Immediately Ahearn fell the Government finds that it is could not be paid, and later

AN through the ropes, the coast able to dispense with his services, the lad was taken to another island near Macao where he whe Under that scheme there will no should have started and conting ed uctil Ahearn either got into longer be a Commandant of the er guarded for fire weeks Members of the Hongkong Club the srens again or was counted whole Volunteer Corps. The Corps Finally, on September 24, they will be held in the Club House came to terms through inter on WEDNESDAY, the 30th oat. The timekeeper did not/will be divided up, the infantrymediaries and the

May, 1917, at 5.15 PM. Business As set start a count, with the result that, will be under the military com- Ahearn was out of the ring 17ander, the artillery under the returned, through several bends, notice posted in the fath in the secondr, and the referee as well commander of the artillery in the $2,320 being paid for

release. The prisoner had sa the timekeeper appeared to be Colour, and likewise the en- in a quandary and did not know gineers under the Chief Engineer been lost sight of in this I bare no doubt that these time, but a man, who had seen what to do. Then again in the Scott-Craig fight, the timekeeper rangements, when completed, him when on the island with the will redound to the efficiency of oyster bede, knew that he was at counted Craig out when he waS oa bis feet at the 9th second. This the Corps. It is with great error was & serious thing, 48 quite regret, 1 am sure, that all the body of Chinese soldiers. It was HONGKONG GYMKHANA · members of the Volunteer Corps not till January of this year that

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that time an officer cf a small

■ lot of money had been bet po part with yont Commandant, and he was definitely found in. Macao it is with great regret that in and handed over to the Police.

the result. A timekeeper who gets

E. DES VŒUX, Secretary.. Hongkong, 22nd May, 1917. -

CLUB.

80 excited with what is going making the re-organisation which Mr. Orme went op to say THE SECOND GYMKHANA on to the ring, and who is 80. I have indicated the Government that the jury might think it a

agitated that he counts a man out

MEETING of the Season

||SATURDAY, the 26th instant, in 8 seconds, Ba he did Craig has been obliged to part with strange thing that the first prisoner will be held at Happy Valley on

Lt. Col. Chapman in his was able to bargain in Macao commencing at 3.30 PM. on Saturday night, is surely not

when there were suthorities there, The Charge of Admission“ will fit to hold a watch. There are capacity of Commandant. It is

Bome reliable timekeepers in the mindful of the very excellent and whilst he could act in this be $1.00 for others than Members case tell them how be was in a of the Hongkong Jockey Club or Colony, namely, Charley Band, service which Lt. Col. Obspan Sid Kelly and A. Allen, also He has ever rendered, not only to position to do so, they all knew Gymkhana Chib,

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform ferees who know the rules and this Corps but to the cause of that where Chinese were concern- know how to administer them, volunteering in the Colony. I think ed there were possibilities of free.

The Committee invite the be Mr. W. Login for example.

that we carry volunteering, and doing things that to us seemed Toura eto,

did even before the war broke impossible. None of the stolen Ladies of Hongkong to OBSERVER.

out, to su extent not realised in Property had been recovered, present.

Beither had any of the eam paid

Hongkong, 2lat May, 1917.

Bir-In criticising the decision

any other Crown Colony at SD for the ransom. rate-I cannot speak for the Witnesses were then oslled. Dominions beyond the sess—and His Lordship sentenced both at the present time we are proud prisoners on the firet count to that the satire European

seven years' imprisonment and population, with two Gr

Hongkong, 22nd May 1917.

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE

of Mr. Bailey, in the Simes v. Smith boat on Saturday night, three exceptions, are voluntary fourteen strokes with the "cat" IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED

that the Hongkong Stock|| did it coour to you that if Smith members of this Corpe. For whilst on the second charge he had been of the same mind as that epirit that has animated passed a similar sentence with Exchange will be CLOSED on Simes there would have been the wholesale volunteering, we the exception of the strokes, the THURSDAY, no fight? Someone had

owe a great deal to Lieut. Col. sentences to run consecutively1 o'clock P.M. Empire Day. make openinge, and as Simes Chapman. In conclusion, Lt. Col. 44 years in all.

no

in

apparently had intention Chapman, I can only say that I

of doing so, Smith made them. wish you every success outside of

For the first twa rounde Simse did volunteering.

not strike a blow except in self- defence, and therefore I consider Smith deserved credit for trying to make s fight of it.

The Corps was then dismissed.

I quite admit that Simsa had

Japra and Ene jy Tradlog.

by far the best of things in the last round, batif

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Oseks, 11th May—Mr. Oks, ~The following is the approzi- Both had adopted the same to Chial of the Bureau of Commerce, mate statement of the Hongkong tics as Sizes the first round asking at the Oaks Chamber Tramway Company's trake might have fined without a of Commeros, elucidated the recei blow being struck, and I am Japanem Enemy Trading Act, May quite certain the spectators recently promulgated. He su- would have been bored to death nounced that the Government long before the sixth round. were compilings black list, This Year: ...

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