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STRAITS "OUR DAY."

Singapore, March 24.

now totals $636,900

Singapore's share in the Straits "Our Day

INFLUENZA AMONG GERMANS.

Singapore, March 24.

It is rumoured that there are some influenza cases amongst the repatriated Germans. All the ships are lying out at the quarantine

anchorage.

FRENCH CRUISER AT PENANG.

Singapore, March 24.

The French cruiser Destrees has arrived at Penang.

SHANGHAI BANK SWINDLE.

Shanghai, March 20

A Bank of China messenger is missing with 840,000. He drew a lakh of dollars from the local branch for the Foochow branch and remitted $50,000 to Foochow by his servant but disappeared himself with the balance.

DEPORTED GERMANS AT SINGAPORE,

(ESTABLISHED 1881).

MONDAY, MARCH 24. 1919.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

TO-DAY'S CASES,

The March Criminal Sessions were resumed this morning, both Courts sitting.

Before the Chief Justice)

CHARGE OF BRIBERY.

Lo Cheun was charged with receiving a bribe and pleaded not guilty.

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CENTRAL.

"To-Day's Exchange.

The closing rate of the dollar. on demand today was 35, 1.15-16d.

The Weather.

The Colony's hotel secum- modation has been taxed to its almost, during the week-end,

Mr. F. W. G. Clark, of Messrs. Forecast rain. Barometer**** owing to Peking, March 23.

a large number of Shewan, Tomes and Co., has 29.80. Temperature 2 p.m.-17. American

travellers arriving on the Empress despatches

of Asia, and other vessels. The of the Institute of Mechanical

been elected an Associate Member Humidity 2.p.m..—$7, state that a certain high mi Japanese Chinese personage is local hotels were rapidly filled interfering with the China and many of the visitors have i delegates working in Paris and is had to remain on board the vessel responsible for Lu Ching-named." cheung's

Ergineers.

We learn that the sale of cous

recent resignation Local shipping agents have The Attorney General, the which may result unfavourably also had their hands full, and agaments of Whittaker's Al- Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, C., China. America holds that applications for connections have manack for 1919, which have instructed by the Crown Solicitor the 21 demands and the military ben pouring in.

reached the East and Far East, (Mr. G. H. Wakeman) prosecuted, agreements infringe American The 6.8. Taming arrived from called pages are advised."

has bean prohibited until can-

and the accused was defended by rights in Chins and is maintain- Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed bying this attitude throughout the Bangkok, ou Sauday, and some Mr. D. J. Lewis, of Messrs. Paris Conference.

of the foreign passengers havE Johnstone, Stokes and Master. Peking papers publish tele-had to find accommodation at Outer Mongolia Chinese Hotels whilst some others The jurymen were Messrs. grams R. Hunter, E. Arculli, T. L. Scott, stating that Japanese Military are still compelled to remain on stirring rebellion board. The arrivals include s G. H. May, S. Goldsmith, J. M.

and large number of missionssies.

from

officers are

Noronha and W. P. Vermeullen.promising Japanese assistance

ampong the Mongolians

a

bribe

BABIES' PENSIONS.

"G. B. 8." ON BRITISH "ECCENTRICITIES.”,

Landsell this morning in In a case heard before Mr. R which a Chinese boy was ordered

TELEGRAMS.

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THE SILVER MARKET,

"London, Mar. 11. The silver market is steady..

A SHOOTING TRAGEDY.

DISTRESSING INCIDENT.

to be birched and to be detained for 48 hours für "stealing a'raïn- Opening the case for the for independence.

cost belonging to a Japanese who Crown, the Attorney General "Many Koreans are appealing to

left it in a richahs whilst he said the accused, who was a the Chinese Government for member of the Public Works assistance in their struggle for

entered a house in Spring Gar- den Lane, it was stated by las Department, was charged with independence. Telegrams show accepting

pector Kent that a gang of boys on Jan- that Eorean unrest is still unabat- uary 14, of $100 from ad. Stores and stops are still clos

often visited the houses in this a man named Chung Sik-cheun.ing and thousands have been The evidence for the prosecution arrested.

street and stole articles belonging to the visitors, who were was that the accused is a foreman

Shanghai, March 23. "By a happy coincidence."diainclined to take measures for on the permanent staff of the

Fifty-two bodies and organs in says Mr. George Bernard Shaw, their arrest, partly from the fact P. W. D. and had been in that Shanghai have wired to Paking in the Dockers Record, on the that they were incapable, being service for about eight years. and Canton and written to the subject of Mothers Pensions, under the influence of drink, and With the exception of the chief delegates of North the momentat which the United partly from an apprehension that occurred on board the as. Kong- A distressing shooting tragedy present charge there was nothing and South, demanding the States threw themselves into the prosecution would Lead to against the accused, who had prompt re-opening of Singapore, March 22. carried out his job in a satis- Peace.

the European struggle to destroy life publicity concerning their being ming, on Saturday: The vessel Conference: The Atreus, with 741 German subjects who are being repatriated, factory manner. His salary was, they will appeal to the public themselves into

otherwise was that in which they threw found in such an ill-famed came to Hongkong from Canton has arrived. The Nore and Novara are due to-day and all com-in all. $60 per month, therefore native and foreign, for judgment, struggle to sare it

the Epopean President munication with the shore has been prohibited.

the amount of the alleged bribe They also have decided to notify Wilson was the protagonist of was six-and-a-half times the the friendly nations not to give the first operation and Judge amount of accused's salary- North or South soy fancial Henry Neil of the other! comparatively large sum. On help as the people will not re- "Judge Neil, a man of powerful January 14 the accused was on cognise any such leans hereafter. originality, conceived the start duty as principal foreman, in con- The four Ministers to Peking, ling notion that as a child must, nection with the work of widening (British. American, French after all, be looked after by the Taipo Road. It was not his Italian) held a meeting on the somebody until a man from whom the accused was test against the 8th year Domestic pump, and vacuum cleaner is the option of a fine. The pro- his revolver by his side. duty to receive any money. The 21st and decided to officially pro- combined

trustworthy One this morning was sent to Captain Jones lying dead with x incubator. stomach prison for three months without gushing wound in the head and alleged to have received the Bonds with bribe, Chun, is the manager of a salt surplus.

security on the invented, that somebody may as

well be the child's mother. Ha secuting Police Officer, Inspector

THE STRAITS LOTTERY.

Singapore, March 29. The Drawing totalled $478,000. The Red Cross takes $123.200 The first prize was $97,000. The Colonial Secretary congratulated the Colony on the success of its "Our Day efforts and said the 1918 collection was the last and best.

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(From Our Oven Correspondent)

THE STRAITS WAR LOTTERY.

Singapore. March 29.

The Straits War Lottery totalled $478,000, of which $325,000 is distributed in prize money.

The first prize, valued $97,500, was won by Khoa Heng-gan, of Penang the second, $65,000, by Chúa Yong-soon, a Singapore clerk: and the third, $32,500, by the French Bank at Hanoi.

NEWS BY WIRELESS.

Daily Bulletin" Service).

PEACE CONFERENCE.

Paris, March 22. President Wilson will act as Chairman of the League of Nations Commission meeting to-day, when all the proposed amendments will be considered and the plan will take definite form.-American Wireless

| advance of $4,000 or $5,000 from

Lisog Shih-yi's

badness, Was to give When the some money,

district.

and at 2.10 p.m. on Saturday," when the boat was of Machan

For soliciting near the Marray island, in Chinese waters / s Barracks, a Chinese woman was revolver shot was heard in the arrested by Sergeant Briant of Captain's cabin. Going into the the Garrison Military Police and cabin, the quartermaster found when charged before Mr. GAN

The

frm of contractors which had Chau Shu-Jan, Shensi Tuchun, proposed, in short, to tear the Kent, said that he know for a fact The tragedy is somewhat. contracted to undertake the is arranging a loan of three the children from the aching arms that a number of street walkers shrouded in mystery. When the work of widening the millions with the Government of the official guardians of the made it a practice of parading vessel came into the harbour the Taipo Road.

Chan would tell cotton mill and mint as security poor and the beadle, and fling the streets in this locality with a them that accused came to his and also another loan of two them naked on the maternal view to house on January 11, and said millions with security on the breast.

soliciting from the Police went on board and removed "When I come back on Monday Sam Yuen iron mine, the Han

soldiers. He cited sa instance the body to the Mortuary. The Unnatural as it seemed, the the other day when some soldiers sa Kongning is one of Banker will you have $400 ready for me. Chung coal mine, and the Sai An notion had its good points. It was had to be sent to hospital as the Line vessels. Captain Jones War Chun then saw Inspector Terrett coal mine,

mucb cheaper; and the children and showed him four $100 notes.

The Mongolian situation is did not die of it as they did in the ult of acquiring disease in

a popular figure in the Colony, the numbers of which were taken more serious.

Military by Inspector

Bau Kwai-bing, constricting caresses of the ofthe locality. The Terrett. Chun Tuchun of Hak Long Kiang, has fical custodians. Within reason, sathorities, he said, wanted to and-was. 55 years old. eventually handed these notes sent an to accused, which act was wit- Peking asking Peking to

urgent telegram to even a bad mother is better than put a stop to this practice, which funeral takes place to-day. nessed by two Chinese policemen. the necessary measures and re-

take a good beadle.

was doing incalculable harm Judge Neil had another fresh Following instructions given to A later report made by the The accused was then arrested. porting & certain country's idea. When the poor mother was the Military Police, a Chinese Police says that when the Kong- The accused said at the Police activities with the Mongolians, trotted out and exhibited as neces-woman was arrested last Friday ming was off Machan Island, in station, when charged, that he who are now prepared to declare sarily a bad mother, he pointed and on the following day was had been promised "cumshaw" by independence, making the contractor for looking after the capital. Chan Ngai, Resident her poverty, and consequently

Fulan out that the way to get over sentenced by Mr. R. E. Indsell. Chinese territorial waters, a shot the work as the former did not General at Mongolia, wired to the ber

was heard in the Captain's know how to do it properly.same effect. Yang Tsang-sun, her

cabin, and, when the officers He WES promised a sum Tuchun of Sintiang, has also re-experiment was only half a suc- The net which the Pohoe have of the ship entered, they of $300 but the contractor said he ported on the dangerous situation cess in America he said, "Give for some time past been spreading found the Captain in a prostrate would pay an extra $100 if an at the frontier there.

her twice as much money," which in the vicinity of King's Street, the P.W.D. was secured for the syndicate held its second meeting came wholly successful.

railway being done, the experiment be- Wanchai, for gathering in an position with a ballet wound in his head. The circumstances. Chinese New Year. Accused on the 21st inst.

elusive gang of gamblers was More banks "When Judge Neil came to stated that he told the contractor have joined.

England he found, among the yesterday productive of results in point to it bei. g a case of suicide. that he had arranged for the Peking has cabled advising other eccentric arrangements of that 12 Chinese were caught at advance and then received the Luk Ching-chang that Mongolia this most unreasonable country, No. 16, King's Street and were! $400" cumshaw."

is proposing to send represent that we had actually instituted to-day brought before Mr. G. N. which the case was adjourned cognition of their independence thinking of the far more pressing fined $3. It was stated by Sergeant Evidence was then taken, afteratives to Paris asking for re-old age pensions without ever Orme at the Magistracy and each

and a certain country will support need for young age pensions, and Cockle that this gang was a very Empress of Aris included Mr. Passengers arriving "by the he set himself to persuade us that slippery one. They had and Mrs. H. Humphreya, Mr. and we had begun at the wrong end. tinually evaded the Polica by irs. A.S.D. Cousland, Mrs. C. H.

"A still crazier discovery was

ever changing their head- that a woman with illegitimate

P. Hay, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. R. The prisoner produced children could by a familiar quarters. In the present case,

Mrs. J. J. Gorman. flour bag and started to fill every-day process of law obtain the Police took the precaution of Mitchell, Mrs. N. L. Watson and it with rolls of coin and another a pension of five shillings a week taking out six different warrants man took a basket of coin. An for each child provided she to cover the search. A humorous alarm was raised and the fourmen selected the father from the well-outcome of the search was that Accused pleaded not guilty.

ran away and were chased and to-do class which can afford such one Chinese policeman was drawn The Crown Solicitor, Mr. G. F. caught in a house, a short distance luxuries. No doubt this arrange into the Police net. This bright Wakeman, prosecuted, and the away. The accused was arrested ment tends to abolish class hatred ornament of the law, who was accused was undefended.

of the fokis of the by encouraging affectionate e apposed to be on duty on his by one The jurymen were:-Mess. W.shop and was actually in lations between the proletariat beat near the locality, found the Macfarlane, W. J. Souza, P. V. A possession of the bag containing and the bourgeois; but Bothelo, C. T. Gunded, E. L. the money. When charged at Judge

Neil could not be game too irresistable, and he Rocha, A. A. Giu and C. Ribeiro. the Police Station, accused said made to understand why. was surprised by the raiding party

married He respectable Opening the case for the he was passing the shop.

woman, whilst hobnobbing with the The War Financial Corporation is considering floating a bond prosecution, the Crown Solicitor did not know who knocked him struggling to bring up six gamblers and participating in the Lasue which will probably total $200,000,000 and be issued in a few said that No. 131, Shanghai Street down. He fell down on the children, should have a starvation game. He attempted to halt by weeks; to provide funds for railroads and to meet the other dezuands was partly occupied by a money ground and the money, which was pittance doled out to her with jumping, though the window Theater Theatre 9.15 p.n upon the Corporation.-American Wireless."

changer's and partly by a gold-snatched by some other man, was every circumstance of bitter, along with several other gam-

and continuous, blers. smith's shop. On January 23, thrown into the road and the man humiliating,

When the 0.8.P. was whilst the master of the money who held him down said he was insult, whilst a less scrupulous informed, he ordered the con- changers shop was sitting behind a robber. The pepper was his. one should have twice as much. table to be brought before the the counter with his fokis, He bought it to take to the country The Judga makes helps Magistrate. Inspector Kent told making up five dollar rolls to make cakes with!

instead of hindrances of these

Hongkong General Chamber of of ten cent pieces, at about Evidence was then taken after anomalies. They enable him to Mr. Orme that the constable Washington, March 22, Loans totalling $14,699,800 have been advanced to farmers in except the guilty. Bentance of six years good-humoured manner,

8 o'clock, four men came in. All, which the jury found the accused show as what fools, we are in a would probably be dismissed CommerceExtraordinary, gen- He is from the Force after he had eral meeting at 3.55, annual the United States by the Federal Reserve Banks-american unarmed prisonery who was hard labour and 12 strokes of the gaining ground here, as he did in served his sentence, which was meeting at a pan.

covered the master and his cat was passed,

his own country,"

u. S. COTTON CROP.

Washington, March 22.

Census Bureau reports that the ginned production was 11,808,118 The finance statistics for the 1918 cotton crop of the Cotton bales and running bales 12,822,601, the equivalent of 500 lb. bales exclusive of linters.-American Wireless.

Wireless;

FLOTATION OF U. S. BOND ISSUE...

Washington, March 22.

LOANS TO U. S. FARMERS.

until to-morrow.

(Before the Puisne Judge.) ARMED ROBBERY.

Cheung Yut was charged with Street, Yaumati, on Jan. 23. armed robbery, at 131 Shanghai

them.

fokis.

&

one month's hard labour.

DON'T FORGET.

TO-DAY.

"Pinkie and the Fairies"

Victoria Theatre-9.15 p.m. Coronet Theatre-9.15 p.m.

TO-MORROW.

Victoria Theatre 9.182

Coronet Theatro—9.15 pm;