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NOTES & COMMENTS.
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
FRIDAY
`DAY BY DAY.
KOWLOON NOTES. MUDER CONVICTION
Is air
provisions. though. Yesterday's baalth return speaking without the book, they shows one non-fatal case sada of may possibly be a little more diphtheria and enteric fever, both stringent. The stipulation which sufferers being British. lays down that all traffic in opium prepared for smoking is absolute-
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FULL COURT UPHOLDS LEGAL OBJECTION.
murder.
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SERVICE NOTES.
Army Order recently published provides for the 11- tension of service for saktiere who re-enlisted under Ammy. Orders 4, 124 & 125 of 1919, as follows-
Warrant oicers and N.CO.s
WE ARE ALL CLEVER ENOUGH (BY THE FERRYMAN."} The prohibitive regulations in AT ENVYING A FAMOUS MAN
So we're to have another open- regard to opium which the Home WHILE HE IS YET ALIVE, AND AT.
the KOC concert at Secretary has made under the PRAISING HIM WHEN HE
DEAD.—MimmETTA US.
to-morrow" week. n will Dangerous Drogs Act appear to
This morning, the Full Court be wall patronised, I'm SUTO. us to be a continuance of the D.ORA
especially since the full band of delivered judgment on the point, the Wiltshires will be in attend-of law raised by Mr. F. C. Jankin ance. The KC.C. is helping to the Criminal Sessions in the not below the rank of sergeant explode the idea that thase case of Leung Tal, who on with 9 years' service and other evidence, was found guilty of soldiers with 11 years service to attend service and thereby lastrumentalists deserve the nick- aama of The Silent Band.”
In the course of his judgment, Permitted to serve on for pension. Saldiers not eligible under those ly prohibited is of some interest! The Japanese Minister to the
the Chief Justice dealt first with to us here in Hongkong, inasmuch Siamese Court (Mr. Nishi) is ex-
At this coming concert the the point raised by Mr. Jenkin on categories may extend to normal as the trade in opium in this pected to arrive in the Colony on Black Cats" are not to appear, the question of time, saying the engagements or for a further Colony is a Government monopoly the 8th instant by the Mishims so there'll be no response to the Statute requires the Court to be period of 123 or 4 years with from which very considerable re- Maru, on his way to Japan.
ory Black Cats, where are satisfied that the notics of in the Colours, beyond venue is secured. But we should
Jou? "But instead of these intention to take evidence of dyingagement, with the option of very much doubt whether the
A dose of camphor oil put a tertainers we
the depositions has been reasonable accepting reserve service or not. terms of the Dangerous Drugs Chinese girl, 15 years old, into pleasure of hearing some talented notice. Counsel for the prisoner on expiration of colour service.
Service may also be extended Act ATA to be applied internal
dificulties yesterday. vocalists in a very attractive pro- argued that the section implies with a view to service in the this Colony in this particular She was admitted into the Gov- STamme. regard. There are people, no ernment Civil Hospital for treat-
of time between the service Reserve only, on expiration of
notice and the the
present engagement. doubt, who think that Hongkong mant
I hear that the wind-up of the of
Warrant officers and N.0.0.s It should make opium-smoking
Tennis League season is to take taking of the, evidence. illegal. but we fear they do not
of the peculiar A log of timber,.tive tous in place on the 25th instant, when was necessary, as appears from will only be permitted to extend
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present
A.S. WATSON & CO., LTDsition of this Colony in regard weight became dislodged whils a the Champions of each Division the evidence of the Medical in their substantative rank-seting
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Phone 16.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Telepone: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Union.
Office address: 11, Ice House Street,
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920.
THE OLD WAY.
and absolute control of
were
to this traffic. If there were full gang of coolies were at work in will meet teams from "The Rest Oficer, that the deposition should rank may be retained provided
permit. the the Kowloon Godowns timber at the Chinese Becreation Club be taken when it was taken. It the establishment and regulations
A big affair is being would not have been safe to
No extention will be allowed sources of supply, it might be yard yesterday. 1: fell on top of grounds.
planned. Kowloon hasn't a great delay, as the deceased might have possible for the Government to a coolia who was killed.
deal of interest in the function, got worse and have been unable for soldiers sent Home for dis- suppress opium-smoking,
excepting that four of the Second to testify. He did in fact discharge on present engagement.
The bonniies granted on re- such a policy found to be of For the Royal Air Force Division champion team
are some ten hours later, but it is
under the abova benent to the whole community. Memorial Fund. Mr. D. K. Blair Kowloon men, bilst The Rest" argued that this is immaterial enlistment which is a very debatable point is in receipt of the following teams will include a few Kowloon The prisoner must know what is quoted Army Orders will de But it seems to us that with con- further sabecriptions --Capt. Ro-players. ditions as they are it would be an bert Dooglia, $26. Mr. G. M.
follow irapossibility to
that Dodwall, $25; Mr. G. A. Harri- course. To take only one point, man, $10.
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In consequence of the sale of some of the Humphreys Estate bouses in Kowloon, quite a num
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it is known that poppy-growing in China so far from being
It has been announced that ber of residents will bave to seek suppressed, is being officially en- conraged in many districts, and Mr. E. Suzuki will not return to accommodation elsewhere. the opium traffe is in full the Colony, he being trasferred don't envy them the job of finding Pending the new quarters. Where are they swing again. Supposing Hongo another post. kong were to attempt to abolish arrival of bis successor. Mr. to go? opium-smoking here, with China Ohmori acts as Consul General, as our very doors producing more for Japan in Hongkong. and more opium-why, we should
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Dependants Allowance to re- latives for in receipt of same will be continued until the end of the present engagement only.
Discharge by purchase will not
to be said against him, that he continued until the end of the may not have been taken by present engagement, Int
additional bounty or furlough that be surprise and
MAY will be allowed for exlanding fail bava
opportunity
of
service. cross-examination. There was in this case no interval.
Married men are allowed to The prisoner it is true did not objection Allowance will be dependent
extend bat continuance of Separa
and ask for longer nocice, but an illiterate man of the coalie class on such General orders as may cannot be expected to know his legal rights and cannot of course waive them. A man who is likels The other day, a man was ad- to be charged with murder may vertising for a house and offered reasonably desire to bare legal need a preventive force bigger. We regret to state that owing a reward of $50 for anyone who assistance at the taking of the
be allowed before expiration of But deposition; be is et than anything the Colony has to labour difficulties in the electro could find him one.
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present engagement. entitled to bave ever known to keep the drag out. making establishments of the don't think he got any answers. rate
Soldiers extending under this to consider bis de- And China is only one source of Colony, amounting, it is reported, I did see one "delightful house" time
Army Order will forego re-. supply. The policy of our Gosto a strike, it has been impossible advertised to lot, but it was fence and prepare his cross- ernment is to keep the traffic well to get blocks manufactured for intimated that this one was only examination. The Chief Justice patristion on final discharge. under control and to maintain a our Pictorial Supplement, which, available to a married couple of then referred to the case relied price which makes it impossible therefore, will not be published
refined tastes." it being stated on by Mr. Jenkin, Rex Harris, TYPHOON WARNING. for the evil to grow to any extreme to-morrOW.
also that there would be Do and commented that what was dimensions. That, antil Chins
objection to one child.
reasonable in point of time was
The telegram quoted below WAS he agreed a question of fact to be seriously keeps her bargain and all the other sources of supply Yanmati between two women A quarrel arose yesterday in
that decided on the facts in each received by the American Con-
sulate Generál, Hongkong, from." are controlled, appears to be the who were feeding their droves of couples with more than
one case. joaly sane method of dealing with
Coming next to the ground the Manila Observatory at 9. m In spite of the establishment of the League of Nations there the question in this Colony.
pigs. One ferocious female at-child cannot be described as tacked the other with a carrying people of refined tastes? Anyhow, that the notice was faulty in to-day-
iD tha: it did can be little but disappointment for the man whosearches the period
not Cyclone or Typhoon, E of since the signing of the armistice to fod evidence of any growing
pole, and was about to inflict this advertisement cannot possibly form. another blow when she was have been drawn up for Kowloon convey to the prisoner what Southern Formosa, moving Wor
if any. had amity among the nations of the world. Peoples were led to believe
been W.N.W. that they only bad to fight and conquer the 1914 display of mad❘ GRAND OPERA
shared into the ditch, and had consumption. Who evah heard ofence. militarism to herald in a period of great striving after world-wide The news which we published a her ribs broken. She is now of refined people living in Kow-committed or when or where or peace: that armaments would soon cease to be the drag on national couple of days ago to the effect lying in Hospital, and in the loon, eb what? It isn't done, my any indication that he would be
charged with it, he said Mr. the satisfaction of the Court. He resources; that diplomsey would no longer be secret and intriguing that Manila is to enjoy a long meantime her late adversary is deah old bean!
Jenkin bases bis objection to the said-It may be that the "re- notice is and that the powerful nations of the world, tired of strife and season of grand opera beginning in the custody of the Police held
notice on a more serious ground;}sonableness of the combat, would settle down into a comradeship for the preservation with the advent of an Italian on the charge of committing a
Of course it isn't, any more more serious because, I think, beyond dispute, but otherwise than one would think of taking that it goes to the root of the the Court will ask two of peare and the general advancement of civilisation. Has there company, to be followed later by grievous assauli. been anything forthcoming to justify that belief? There has been a Spanish company, made us
bagpipes to a bathing picnic or of matter. Even if formally sufficient questions: (1) "Did the authorities little. beyond a few futile and unproductive meetings of the mere realise how little of this kind of
It has been communicated to marching up and down the high he says the notice is unreasonable give the accused as long a notice machinery of the League of Nations. There certainly has been po musical and dramatic fare Hong the local Japanese Consulate ad a: Castle Peak in kilta oa a in that, as already stated, it gives as possible consistently with general acceptance of the working ides, for we 5nd that the build-kong enjoys. Past experience General that Viscount Chinds another story, the details
hot summer's day. But that's) no indication of the offence to obtaining the deposition?" and ing up of arraies and Davies goes on as before.
has shown that such grand opera: Secriar of the U.S. Xary, stated in the course of a speech that the Colony base received good support that Baron Hayashi (formerly sorts to make a world, doesn't it?
agree that reasonableness is a written notice afford the inform- One of Beuter's cables yesterday, told us that Mr. Daniels, the companies as have come to this will shortly resiga from his post which are known to only a few which the statement relates (2) "Did the authorities in the
of Ambassador to Londos, and Kowloon residents. It takes all
question of fact and that ation then available to enable
bound
to such him
klow what delay in the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles had prevented & even though their standard of all Minister to Peking) his successor
are you
pon
In every cessation of naval enlargement and there had, therefore, been no round excellence may not have
is now on his way to Europe,
an enquiry to look into all the be bad to meat?" change in the plans of America
But there are case where the notice is up- for naval development. been really high. And we feel sure
Viscount Ishii, who recently Everybody's complaining of the circumstances. America is not only completing a great naval armour that if really tip-top artistes could projectile plant at Charleston, but is building enormous docks on be induced to pay us visit the Passed through the Colony, is large number of mosquitoes about certain assumptions to be made. questionably. reasonable, if a also on his way to Paris to this year. Perhaps the building The prisoner is at this stage of longer time or more definite in the other shore, and constructing eighteen dreadnoughts and measure of patronage would be assume the duties of Ambasador operations bave something to do the proceedings in the eye of the formation could have been grant battle croisers with a dozen other powerful ships which, in even greater still We see it there, while Mr. Matsui, one time with the invasion. Anyhow, law still an innocent man. If the led to the accused, the authorities effective fighting power, will give its navy a world primacy. That's stated that these companies which Ambasador to Paris, is proceeding these litle pests are responsible prisoner was in fact the guilty will have to justify their procedure the point to which we have arrived to-day-nearly two years after are shortly to be in Manils are to Japan after a period of surps for a deal of swearing, and a man he was aware probably of the to the Court. The interval
the armistice. And if we look around we see other nations, in the repoted to be most talented com.
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position to de so, doing something very similar. Britain has not binations, and that through the years during which he has regular "run" at the chemists true
for oil of citronella.but if he represented Japan at the Peace stores
point of armaments. Article Eight reads "The members of the WHAT OF HONGKONG? League recognise that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction
The idea has occurred to as
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CASO
of the
of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with nations that with companies of this September, the second party from front just opposite the ferry wharf this vaguely worded potice which on which the reasonableness of
and Son's
SETNA'S REPORT.
but between the service
and innocent be notice
the taking of been slow to strengthen her own pays, and readers need no telling public there having advanced Conference and other deliber One lady vows that she swallowed would or might know nothing the deposition was the shortest that Japan. France, etc., are all seeing to it that their effective liberal sums the house has been
them. There is possible. One event followed squito whilst lying in bed about fighting forces on the seas are not lagging too far behind the leaders. practically sold out already ini
one night! As it was dark, ber no evidence that any information closely on the other.. Mr. Daniels has served a great purpose in pointing out that this season tickets for each company. development of the American navy is proceeding by reason of the That shows what enthusiasm for
The World' Sunday School hubby asked her how she knew as to the charge against him was Having regard to all circum- If the non-ratification of the Peace Treaty, and it is fair to assume that if good music, plus a little organisa- Convention is to be held in Tokyo it she calmly replied that she given him by the Police. It comes stances the haste shown seems to that Treaty had been ratified and if the Covenant of the League of tion, cad do.
beard it singing inside! Can you in the end to this, that a man, have been inevitable. in October and there are a large beat it?
er hypothest innocent, has been deposition had not been obtained Nations had been subscribed to, then this development would bare
number of delegates attending it.
arrested without being informed then, it would not have been been stayed. The League of Nations' Covenant is quite clear on the
Three parties of this Convention
So far the are visiting Hongkong, the first Talking of chemists' stores, tha of the charge against him. He has obtained at all. party arriving here, by the removal of the Queen's Dis still not heard what the charge notice to the prisoner
The second point: "Empress of Asia" about 16th pensary to premises on the sea-is when safety and the enforcement of common action of international!
to please Kowloon gives him no information as to the notice has been challenged is obligations. The Council, taking acccount of the geographical character giving performances so Manila about 20th September and ought
The convenience of the nature of the offence or the that it did not specify an accusa- situation and circumstances of bach State, shall formulate car at hand, it ought to be the third party by the "Korea residents. plans for such reduction for the consideration and action of the possible to attract them to Hong Maru" on the 22nd September. having such a fine store right at time or place where it was com- tion. It was silent on the nature several Governments. Such plans shall be subject to recon- several methods which might be and Macao during their stay here, doubt be fully appreciated
Long- There are, of course. These parties will visit Canton their doors, so to speak, will no mitted..... The notice given of the charge to which the to the prisoner was in my opin-evidence would relate. Can it be 邀 notice to the sideration and revision at least every ten years. After
ion wholly inadequate and un-said that these plans shall have been adopted by the several Governments, used to effect this object. But and thease proceed to Japan in
reasonable and on this ground I socused is reasonable which the limits of armaments therein fixed shall not be exceeded without if there is no-one here prepared time to attend the conference.
am bound to hold the prisoner gives no indication of the case the concurrence of the Council." The intention of the League could take the project up as a pure All these parties are travelling
he will have to meet? I think matter of business, would it not under Thoa. Cook
entitled to his discharge. not be plainer, but, inasmuch as the League is not an operative force, be possible for some organisation,
On the question of the notice that it cannot. This notice laft the mere words are of no effect. It is now left to the individual nations
arrangements.
having no caption, the Chief him face to face with the whole to fix their own standards of what amount of fighting strength or a body of music-lovers banded
From the report issued for Justice commented on the de- criminal law..... The author constitutes a defensive minimum. That was the position before the together for the purpose, to see
A very successful whist drive August by Messrs. 8. D. Setna & sirability of using the form with ties had this information but did war. England, in building up her navy, only claimed to be acting what could be done in the
modifications given in the not communicafa it to the accus- in defence, and so did Germany and so did Japan; in fact every fand? The Philharmonic Society Club, Garden Road last evening.
guarantee was held at the Catholic Men's Co. we take the following:- way of raising s
Cotton.A consignment of Justices Manual. The Ordinance ed either in writing or verbally. nation had to put forth that ples. That is America's plea now, and it is Britain's, and Japan's. Are we never going to have anything is an organisation which ang. This was the first of a series of 400 bales of Bengal cotton was does not in terms require that It is of the first importance to an the indictable offence should be accused man to know the nature gests itself to one in this con- fortnightly drives, and the success sold at $34 to $38 per picul. else but this?
Indian Yam-During the specified in the caption, though of the allegation against him The answering of that interrogation depends on the final section, but owing to the state of the opening night augure well attitude of America, after her Presidential election has been settled, of moribundity into which it has for the future. The large Club month, our market ruled weak it might be better to do before he is invited to confront for then will have to come a definite move by that nation either in relapsed it is perhaps hopeless to Hall was comfortably crowded, a and depressed owing to steady this I notice incidentally witnesses called to prove it. On
expect any action from this quar- total number of 124 players rise in exchange and political that the deposition of the deceased this favour of a world-wide compact or against it. The biz European car Then what about a few of participating. The results were unrest in the neighbourhood as given in the Magistrate's note form the soused of the Fowers have already ratified the Treaty and subscribed to the more Important Covenant and if America came in on their side then the our music enthusiasts putting as follows:-Ladies-1st, Mrs. Prices show a decline of about is in the form of a consecutive nature of the charge against
their heads together, getting in Sellwood; 2nd, Mrs. Burden: 3rd, $10 to $15 per bale sil round. narrative. It would be desirable him the machinery would at last be in working trim for the control of any touch with Manila and then ap- Mrs. Beard; 4th, Mire. Reynolds: Bales are reported in selected I think if and when the Magistrate my view not resiónaldo sscard- nation's warlike intentions. Instead of spending millions upon guns. and ships of war nations could devote their finances wholly to the pealing to the public for evidence booby, Mrs. Black ford. Gents threads only, No. 108, about 800 put any question to the complaining to the requirements of this
and the deposition therefore not admis social impovement of their peoples, sure in the knowledge that there of willingness to aid such a 1st, Mr. Bellwood: 2nd, Mr. bales at $208 to $223 per bale; ant he should record his question section,
movement? The experiment Spicer 3rd, Mr. Lanigan; 4th, No. 12s, about 400 bales at $225 and the answer to it. could be no encroachment on their liberties or rights without the could be tried, even if nothing Mr. Cummings, boaby Mr. to 235 per bale; and. No. 16s, support of practically the entire world. That day is needed soon came of it. At any rate, it does Beechey. Considerable amme about 100 bales at $280 per bale, for with the present delay and its accompanying activities on a
thousand pities that meat was created by the opening in all about 1,300 bales. · Unsaki wrong path the establishment of an effective League is becoming a all the harder. At present we are on the old road of foolish its Manila can have what Hongkong of the gents booby prize. The stock is estimated at about 6,000 dividualism: we want to get right on the road of an enlightened cannot in this respect. Who dulies of M. C. were successfully bales sold Int dincleared stock, judgment,
carried out by Mr. Spettigue. about 15,000 bales, wher Siiteraationals 11).
will take the matter up?.
The conviction must be quashed.
PUISNÉ JUDGE'S Justice J. R. Wood
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