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WILLIAMS

The

Hongkong Telegraph

(ESTABLISHED

1*69158 #1 MATIX SATURDAY. JUNE 19. 1920.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS

HWA SINGLE CUFT: 10 CTE,

KOWLOON SNATCHER. CHINESE CONSTABLE OUR PEKING LETTER

HONGKONG LADY ROBBED.

Characterised by the Police as

MURDERED.

AN ACT OF REVENGE?

a daring bit of robbery, a case

With seven or eight stáh was heard to-day bafore the on various parts of his Hagistrate (Mr. R. O. Hutchison) Chinese constable was id

$98 PER ANNUM,

HARNESSING THE OCEAN,

(Prom Our Own Correspondeat) & BOLD BRITISH SCHEME.

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MARIE TEMPEST.

-There WAS BERİN large audience at the Theatre Royal Peking, Jons 9. |~. It is understood that a dill- wil|lit" night, when the. Maris Peking is wildly - axcited, be introduced into Parliament for Tempest Company staged “The IMPORTANT DERATE IN PARLIAMENT.

Pektor is on the tiptoe of ex- the purpose or obtaining authority | Marriage of Kitty. The play. hotation. – A coup d'ekt is fore: for harnessing a number of whioly aboutada In humour Lasdan, June 16-

Mowed, and people are wirendy Scottish sizeaza,, investinitions and ・ ・ olaver" "dialogue, WBR In the House of Commons, on the second reading of the Bill to in which a Chinese youth was sent to the Hospital in fa

that the splendidly presented, all the confirm an agreement between the Imperial, the Australian and the Couricted of the crime and smart state, but before he ex red having the Chinese clty for the having revealed: New Zealand Governments to purchase for £3,500,000 the rights of sentenced to six months hard Hatements were isken which foreign hotels or else betaking regata of available, power is characters being in most capable

themselves - to the security of farmer trap bed, bouriɛand the Pacific Phosphata.Company to the phosphate deposits is the labour and 12 strokes with the Fesulted in several sirga beiBE|Tiantain, while those who havo 2 WIN POTPRERia tõe

made shortly afterwaniables are transferring them of the tides, #1 in rengeted Coat, clever (krokorut, wrain resized island of Nauru and Ocean Island in the South Pacife, for which birch.

It WAS atated that Mrs. Great Britain bas been given the mandate, Colonal Leslie Wilson

Apparently the murder was to the Legation Quarter forsafety, work is about to beghs both on very warm und cordial demo painted out that there were 100,000,000 tons of phosphate a: Naura. Witchall, the wife of Mr. Job He opined there would be no difficulty in maintaining an output of Witchell. manager of the King perpetrated from motives of res Indeed, the kitnation many the Dos, and the Savere, where trations of appreetwalon from the 500,000 tons yearly at a cost saabling Australasia to obtain phos. Edward Hotel, was on a visit venge, as it is stated that, in the spects is not unlike that which power oan de prodeged-sommed- andrämonst

The all-too-short saalon ends phate at £l a ton cheaper than at present, while providing Saterday to a friend who resides course of his duties, the unlucky preceded Chang Hsun's monst- ing to estimates of group of

Paul 23, Humphreys Buildings man had incurred the enmity of chical movement of three your engineers at two-thirds the cost to-night, when Datens will be and of capital

interest. Britain repayment

of electric power generated by produced. that Kowloon. The thief had followed the usb coolies, who are a very ago.

This is a play that baneft, though to

He less extent

was convinced

coal. More than this; a number aires Mis Tempest great scORR there was never a sounder investment for the Empire, securing her into the entrance of the formidable gang and who ply

and, waiting for a their trade at Samshulpe

acting and it should be The Premier has sent in his of estuaries on the west coast of for -- in perpetuity most important raw materials for the rejuvenation of house,

opportunity when

The detalis of the brutal fourth resignation, which has not England bars bien surveyed, witnessed by Bumper house, our land, the demand for which must inevitably increase in the favourable

she was on the stairs leading to future.

would be considerably lower, Capt the Hon. Ormesby Gore moved the rejection of the the second floor of the building, murder are to the effect that at 9 been accepted, and it is expected when the cost of installation

of mandate encouraging

The basic prizalple underlying measure, on the ground that the Bill conflicted with the Articles of he made a suddan dash at Hrs o'clock last night the deceased that the President will izane some

most of the inventions for harness- the Covenant of the League of Nations with regard to the open Witchell and snatched her silver constable was walking along a kind

dark locality his duties as quickly as possible.bise by tidas ebb and flow. Io' the market be Win istration at Nauru and a gigantia State monopoly. He asked had a friend with her, Miss he reached

ona "Cheshire and Lancashire very pluckily ar Chathar this principla would apply also to Mesopotamian oil and Hammes, who

This refusal on the part of the district the great variation in the said it would by a gross violation of our whole imperial system to pursued the thief down the set upon by confine the mandate to some self-governing Dominions and the fight of steps and out into mes, who, being armed with dag-

the street. Turning lato side gers, stabbed him and left him in a President to accept the resigns-hour of the side at neighbouring Mother Country while exeluding other parts of the Empire.

Lord Robert Cecil said the Bill was absolutely inconsistent with lane, the thief found his course pool of blood where the Police than is one of the factors in the estuaries makes possible, through

door. He said it was proposed to establish an irresponsible admin- bag from her hand. Mrs. Witebell Street in Sam-bulpo, and when him to keep well and gut back to ling the tides in tha working of a

possible for us subsequently to insist on the open door.

Mr. Bonar La emphasised that other parts of the Empire would be consulted before agresment was reached. The sanction of Parliament to the agreement did not preclude the League of Nations from refusing to confirm it. He asked the House, to agres and said that the Government proposed to make a fair use of it.

VULCANISING RUBBER

A

M mamber of

** THE FUTURE OF INDIA,

INDUSTRIAL AMBITION" AMONG THE EDUCATED.

Indiestions of a transformatic

Fulam to India azo seen by Sir Alfred Bourne, KOL, GIE, 731. Director of the Indian Instiute

Befence.

of

The turning of the educated Brahmins to technical study, hie been revealed in the first 10 years of the institution work and die "Alfred sows the dawning of a day when the old hard and fast -lipas of society bil 194

Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant. It would give a cut off by a Chinese coalie, who later found him in an uneaasgious [present situation. It bas irritated | Am îngreulous discovere; the pro-In India that will ushe, in min handle to our enemies throughout the world and it would be im. bad come out of the servants' state from the numerous wounded famkal Tuan Chi-jul and the duetion of maximum snaray" | dustrial and icfestida ugo' and {quarters, taking a band in the he had sustained. Inspector Land members of the -Anfu Club whofduring an almost continuous even tend to root up the “casia

The plan for harnessing the chase. The thief turned into anigan, in charge of the district, naturally wish to have the office period.

attack, where he exerted avery Besides they wish the Govora tides devised by Mr. Lewis Wood lavatory, where he was corned by was called to the scans of the filled by a nominee of their own

เธ Save the fulong ment to negotiate peace with head, of Marcos Hill House his pursuers and arrested.

The big contained two $10 effort

Two Europead doctors were sent Tang Shao-xi, Wa Ting-fang, and Broadway, Worcestershire, calls bills, a quantity of loose coins, a

for, the injured man being Sun Yat-sen but the Government for the building of a cheap and silver chain and other articles, brought to the Station in the wishes to make a complete settle- oficient wall out to the sea or the whole, including the bag, bo-

Ji was thought that went and to that end is prepared fidal citer, in which turbines ing ostimated at a value of $60. mesatime.

the man could be better man to to mediate between the rival placed: Mr. Woodhead daims that The thief bad found time to be wore brought over to the element in the South. As a matter 10-foot turbines would conceal in various places

Government Ciril ospital, of fact, the Government had made ) economical where sulable, each ia tho Isratory

of which To

· certais NEW PROCESS DISCOVERED.

proportion of the money, so and he was taken in an ambul- some.

the fairy barf | negotiations with Ln Yu London, June 16

that when he was arrested and ance The Times correspondent at Manchester says a new process of searched, only $10 was found on Shamshuipp, but arribo and others sad does not wish taj late. The luksus died on the sinltify "itself by abandoning. vulcanising rubber bas been discovered by Profesor Teacher, his person. He had also manag

attack.

headed by Tang Bhao-yi. The Lecturer in Chemistry at the Manchester allege of Technology, ed in conceal in his show the wharf nearly two hours after the those at the bebass of the group split in the South has its coun- and it is claimed it will have far-reaching effects on the rabber silver chain, while the bag was

The Police have exerted every terpart in the North. manufacturing industry. The method is cold valcanising with tucked inside an inner pocket.

A subsequent search conducted effort towards the tracking of the salphuretted bydrogen and sulphur, dioxide, enabling the vulcanisation of mixtures of rubber and waste material, for by the Police in the lavatory re-murderers. Some 13 sah coolies. example sawdust and scrape of leather and paper, which was insulted in the recovery of a one are now being held by the Police. possible under the old process.

AMERICAN POLICY.

PLEA FOR A BROAD OUTLOOK.

Washington, June 16.

Mr. Daniel Seerotary of the Navy, in a speech, urged Americans not to listen to selfish provincial plans, renouncing the altruism that sent the American Army oversea.

NEW YORK POLICE INSPECTOR IMPRISONED

New York, June 16 Police Inspector Henry has been given an indeterminate sentence of from two to five years, imprisonment with hard labour for perjury.

AMERICA CUP TRIALS.

New York, June 16

The Resolate defeated the Vanitie.

U. S. MINISTER TO GREECE.

[Other Telegrams on Page 101)

dollar bill which was concealed in the wall. Doubtless, be had other somewhere mopes concealed

in the place, but this wER 13 found, and it is surmised that it might have been picked up by other persons who visited the lavatory after the thief taken to the.Police Station.

DAY BY DAY.

to

́STANDARD_BOOTS AGAIN.

да

ON SALE VERY SOON.

PERSTERK

position

activities of trade to 6 miles from abort. The formerly been barred to them by greatest difficulty, be stated, that the lines of casta. In one ves Bae to be prercome is the polewineated Brahmins have entered sibility of obtaining a space IIU Wa Pei-fa's troops make slow by 30 feet on the sea bed dry, but upon the manufacture of gine, which has always been at the progress northward. As is known, he claims to have discovered bottom of the list for high caste their withdrawal from the method of insuring this, so that

employment. Нолад southern

front was the wall can be well sochored in Isgainst the wishes of the Cabinet | the sea bed.

Obviously the mowment was dasigned to frustrate the plans of

Toxo Chi-jui and the Antu party.

Tusn proposed to prevent them

no coup.

With

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Legation has

"I believe that the Brahmine especially, and other castes of India also, are coming to under- stand that something is needed in India to furnish employment for the brains of the country's be-

a representative of the India needs tell

Times of Ceylon,

to produce something beyond the raw material for commerce, and the people of India are entitled to About the same time Li Sum-some field for their mental

are

from coming too close to the the American It will be remembered that the capital, but when this became addressed a strongly worded Boot Hanufacturers Federation Known Chang Tso-lin threatened protest to the Wafchalops on the

to march against Peking with subject. recently formulated a scheme for

his merry men from Mykdan. supplying the British public with Consequently the position is one good-quality boots and shoes at of stalemate. This in corroborated strictly reasonable prices. This A successful Whist Drive, it scheme was approved by the by the fact that Choog Two-lin is formerly of the China Mail desopment, in addition to the which eighty players took part. Board of Trade after an incoming to Peking in a day or in Hongkong, and now assistant Is and politics. There are many two. Be would not do so if the head translator in the Ministry branches of sciface that are of Finance, was arrested and useful industry, especially cham- was held last evening "in the vestigation bad been made by the situation suggested resort 10

Committee appointed

His presence in the thrown into prison allegedly fo istry, and these are the branches R.G.A. Sergeanta' Mess, Victoria Central Barracks. The winners were under the Profiteering Actipto the

being emphasized. China Mial concerning the Sir Alfred says that, evenD Ladies-1st, Mrs Dovaston; 2nd. costs and profits allowed to all capital may be taken as a fair | baring sent a telegram to the tha: Mr Beard; 3rd, Mrs Gillard:rections of the trade under the indication that there will be no American Aviation loan. This, though the Indians should enter booby, Mrs Marshall. Gents-scheme. The bhoe and Leather

of course, is only an excuse be-export trade eventually it could 1st, Mr. Cheeseley:

cause Li did not divulge any news not be regarded as competition 2nd. Record, in its issue of April 23, Mr. Horgan; 3rd. Mr. Booth: contains a list of manufacturers

the Dragon Festival but simply made use of the facts for British workmen. In view of Booby, Mr. B. Crocker. The who have applied for and been settling day approaching the published in the local press the set back to production, whi drive was organised by Master granted licences to use the official Government is again endeavour-doubtedly he is the victim of Great Britain has received follow- Gunner May, who also officiated stamp by winch boots and shoes ing to raise money to meet political enmity. His friends fearing the war, the raw materials of as M. C.

manufactured under the scheme its obligations, and far that be may be treated like India are not so urgently needed may be distinguished. In North-the prospects 800m

favour Eugene Chan, of the old Peking in England as they were before To develop there in ampton alone 107 Grms of bootable. Local banks will provide Gazette. They have not been able the war. Princeton, June 16.

For the theft of some 810, from land shoe manufacturers are now three million and a half in return to get into communication with India, for Indian Consump Mr. Everett Capps, Professor of Greek at Princeton University the cabin of Commander Morrell engaged in turning out these for Treasury bills and with the him nor secure his liberation on tion, at least, is working no has been appointed United States Minister to Greece.

of the gunboat Cricket, at the boots and shoes. Io the Salt and Customs unbypothecated bail, but it is hinted that he may hardship and serving great nerda Naval amber yesterday, a Chinwhole country 189 firms, are surpluses as additional security be released in a day or two if he of the Empire by furnishing Ins

dians with legitimate activities. ese was this morning sentenced making them. There is every at 15 per cent. interest for ten will consent to leave the city. to six weeks' bard labour. The reason to hope that large mouths, the period of the loan.

for brain and energy.

Sir Alfred, in addition to his evidence given was to the effec: quantities of these boots and repayment to commence at the that the thief was caught red-shoes will be in the hands off fourth month, while the Wine The King's Birthday celebra- connexion with the Bangalore WIRELESS AT HOME. required. The amateur to-day handed while breaking open a retail distributors Ki

very and Tobacco Revenue will be tions in Peking were extremely Institution, has held posts aa has a much more interesting drawer in which the money was distant date.

security for a further two millions interesting by reason of the fact Professor of Biology, the Pre- Ho hobby at his disposal than be bad kept. He was seen by the Com

It was not intended to produce provided by the same sourse. The that the British Minister had just sidency College, Madras. before the war. Many of the mander and a Patty Officer and

balance of the ten to twelve received Intelligence of his having has bad published many text members of the wireless societies had succeeded in throwing some a cheap bost under the scheme millions required will be made up been knighted and in consequence books on scientific and biological had practical experience of wire of the money over the prow of a good, reliable, hard-wearing with the surplus releases from came in for generous congratula-subjects.

boot is what was aimed at, and the Salt and the Customs. tass telegraphy during the war the ship before he was arrested.

Curi-tions not only from the members the new standard boof will not The use of private wireless | Some of the societies aim at

be noticeably cheaper than the ously arough, the position was of the British community but apparatus which was prohibited instructing their receiving sets,

reflected by, the Peking notes of from his diplomatia colleagues boots in the shape to-day. But the Bank of Chins and Book off and from the Chinese authorities. during the war is now greatly in-while at Manchester there is a creasing. Wireless societies and workshop attached to the club in CHURCH BECOMES VILLAGE CLUE. and the net profit of the manu-and have recovered somewhat, served in the war was addressed it will be made of good leather, Communication which fall to 57 The parade of men who had clubs suspended during the war which members can construal have been reconstituted, and all their own apparatus.

The Comrades of Handforth facturer will not exceed 5 per being to-day quoted at 60. by His Excellency. over the country new clubs are During the recent demonstra-recently purchased the local cent being formed, says the Times.

at Chelmsford of the Methodist Church for £500 for The interest of the amateur in possibilities of wireless telephony, a village club, and recently appli- wireless buy been greatly when at stated hours for a forted to the fastices for a dancing stimulated by the possibility of night the day's news and vocal and singing licence. The church obtaining home wireless sets at a and instrumental selections were had been closed owing to the to reasonable figure, A wireless fashed into space, great interest smallares of the congregations

was taken by the members of the the church authorities decidio The final round of the Ladies' receivar which can be installed in the home for about £30, and wireless societies which had to sell to the Comrades rn condi-Doubles Championship was play. will take massages from all the 'receiving apparatus. Bome oftion that no drink licence wased on the courts of the Country Fortunately for the editor Though the weather is not st principal wireless stations of the societies have not yet obtained applied for and that the place Club, Shanghai, in the presence he was on a trip to the Western all bot yet, the exodus to the sea and 915 m. Eatops, was shown recently at a their apparatus for which a should not be turned Into a drink-of well over a hundred specta Hills and did not fall into their side has commenced. This week permit has to be obtained from ing aaloon. The Comrades propose tors, and resulted in a victory for hands although be war invited by witnessed many departuren for the Postmaster-General, and have to have socials, dances, and Mrs. C. D. Pearson and Mrs. J.telephone to come to the Police Faitalbol, and from now onwards | therefore turned their attention concerts in the church, and E. Murray over Mr. J. Elmore Station and discuss the matter. the night trains will be crowded two Instead be has sought. saylani in by passengers travelling to the buzzer practice, lectures, and billiards in the schools. The and Hiss Petersen by

Justices granted a dancing licenco.i straight seta-6-3, 6-2.

the Legation, Quarter. To-day const resorts,

£30 RECEIVERS FOR AMATEURS.

meeting of the Wireless Society of London. This apparatus can Espissed in a bor 15in, wide 12in. load and Sin deep, and for its

tions

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-BHANGHAI-TENNIS.

The Peking police authorities The Hon BẮT, Loa CHO bave stirred up a homet's nest by who is visiting Peking, is slaying raiding the offices of the American at the Grand Hotel Da Peris. He owned LEhib Pan in the absence je to have an audience of the of the editor sad taking away the President in a day or two, copy of two barmless articles referring to the present situation.

TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.

The closing rate of the dollar, demand, to day was 36.841.

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