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Columbia Batteries

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

(ESTABLISHED (881).

69239 五拜禮 號五十月十英港香 FRIDAY.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

1

ANOTHER VICTORY FOR CARPENTIER

ENOCKS. OFT LEVINSKY IN FOURTH ROUND

New York, October 13. A twelve-round boxing match between Carpentier and the

3. huge audience.

The match resulted in Carpentier knocking out Levinsky is the fourth round. The Frenchman now hopes to maet Dempsey for the World's Championship.

REUTER'S

OCTOBER 15, 1920.

TELEGRAMS.

THE RUSSIAN SITUATION, "

日四初月九

NEW FLATS FOR

KOWLOON-

A LOAN FROM THE

GOVERNMENT..

SINGLE COPT: 10 (18.

136 PER ANNUM.

SHOP SITE CASE.

JUDGMENT FOR THE DEFENDANTS.

PROSECUTION OF MOTORIST.

EUROPEAN CHARGED.

Before Mr. Dyer Ball, at the

remand.

Mesar.. Robert-

up

од

in

1 BEDOE

Bay

In the case in which the Kwong IS THE BOLSHEVIE REGIME COLLAPSINO?

Among those who have recently ang firm of curio dealers, of the Magistracy this afternoon, there Londas, "Detober 13.“

aki Post Office building, sued came Sensational rumours have been current during the past w days Focal ad building leans from the Mesora, Nikko and Co. of the American Bartling Levinsky, who is considered one of America's regarding anti-Bolshevik outbreaks througout Russia. As. Nemasse, the shipping merobintages for bread of contract to give son, Wilson and Company, wa

local Government is Mr. H.MA. Hongkong Hotel, for $1,000 dam-Wilson, of

case in which G. F Enest fighters, took place in Jersey City to-night in the presence of no confirmation has been received from official sources, 15 The sum advanced to him is $120- the plaintifs the premises at charged with driving his motor

deemed prudent to regard them somewhat scaptically a present 000 in respect of his property in present occupied by Messrs. especially in view of the previons stories of the impending collaps Kimberley Road, Kowloon The Brower and Co. His Honour Mr. car. No. 22, of

Bolshevik regime. the

Neverthless it seems beyond

ares in 25,000 square feet, and the Justice J. R. Wood this morning on doubt that the Soviet

dangerous To encountering trouble in Siberia,

pedestrians for, according

rate at which the money has been delivered

the Repulsa to A Helsingfors message, the

the following judg-road, near Aberdeen, at 6.45 p.m. Bolshevik paper Prurda admits that over a thousand persons have advanced is dva per cent. The loan ment

was granted a month aga. been arrested in various towns of Siberia for complicity in a plot to

on the 3rd September. In this case, after considering There are at present standing the evidence, I am not satisfied Officer, prosecuted, the scorsaed

Inspector blow up railways and bridges, kill Communist leaders, and to organise

Garrod, Traffo peasant revolts. The leaders of the conspirer are declared to be the tenants of which have been that there was at any time a con- being represented by Mr. D. H.

two bungalows, ex-officers of Kolchak's and Somenod's armice

tract between the parties. The Blake, given notice to quit. Work on

Massrs. Deacon. pulling these down will com- negotiating persons were a Chi-Looker, Deacon and Harston mence very shortly, and in their nose, who was anxious to acquire Sub-Inspector Davis, in charge place there will go up six houses the use of new premises for his of Aberdeen Station, deposad of three flaty each. Each lat business, and a Japanese, who that OD will be four-roomed, and will be wasdesirous of letting his premises question be was an duty on fairly large at that. Four-roomad

a suitable applicant on the the road from Abandonn to flau, it may be mentioned, are tiations were conducted in Eng-saw the car being driven in a best terms obtainable. The nego Repulse Bay whan ha not very common in Kowloon.

THE TURF.

RESULT OF CESAREWITCH STAKES.

The Cesarewitch Stakes resulted as follows:

Bracket

Front Line

Greek Scholar

London, October 13.

1.

2. 3.

Thirty-two ran; won by two lengths; three lengths between second and third,

GREAT RACE IN CASADA.

Windsor. (Ontario), October 13.

A great bute-facing match for £15,000 and a £1,000 cup between the United States crack horse Man of War and the Canadian-owned Sir Barton was witnessed by huge crowds. The TRCO WAS OVOr a distance of a mile and a quarter.

Sir Bartoa. who was under weight for age, carried six pounds extra Man of War won by eight lengths in 2 min, 3 sec-.

AIRDPLANE OF THE FUTURE

SOME NEW DEVELOPMENTS.

Losdon, October 13. At the Air Conference to-day, Air Marshal Sir Edward L Thington gave an interesting forecast of the aeroplane of the future. He announced that the Air Ministry was developing two new engines. The first was a "swash plate engine" in which was an inclined disc on a shaft which replaced the ordinary crank. The second was a steam turbine, with which it was to be able to fulfil all required conditions and greatly increase cylindrical power, besides being silent. It would also reduce the physical effort required by the pilot Another at present in the design stage provided engines in the fuselage driving propellers in the wing, relieving the) pilot of control of the engine, the latter signalling his order to the engias-room, as ons ship.

IRELAND AND THE GOVERNMENT.

DECLARATION BY SIR HAMAR GREENWOOD.

London, October 13

Sir Hamour Greenwood, in a speech at Belfast this afternoon. said that Lord Freach, Sir Neville Mcready and himself were in complete accord and none of them was resigning.

FIRE ON GERMAN LINER.

16,000-TONNER IS FLAMES.

Berlin, October 13. Amessage from Hamburg states that a big fire broke out at midnight on the 16.000-ton Hamburg-American liner Viktoria Luise, in the Valkao Yards. Four fire engines bara ken summoned.

ITALIAN SOCIALISTS.

OBJECTIOS TO ANARCHISTS AND SYNDICALISTS.

Rome, October 13. The Congress of the Italian Socialist Party at Reggio passed a resolation in favour of adhesion to the Moscow International, at the same time demanding the exclusion from the Party of the Anarchist and Syndicalis: groups.

EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

From Our Chen Currespondent!

JUDGES SALARIES.

Shanghai, October 13. Penang Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution urging an increase in Judges' salaries.

SINGAPORE £1,000,000 GIFT.

Singapore. October it. The Government stated there is no obligation to contiate the £1,000,000 gift to the Home Government after 1941.

The Government was proceeding with the Home Rule Bill and were prepared to enlarge it most. generously in order to secure a complite and final settlement of the Triah question, but it could not tolerate the independence of Ireland or a part of Ireland. They be- lieved that the Imperial strategic unity of Ireland was a fundamental advance. for the peace of the United Kingdom and the well-being of the Empire sad would not badge on its fondamental verities.

WRANGEL PUSHES ON.

MUNITION FACTORY BLOWN UP.

RUBBER MARKET.

Singapore, October 14.. Rubber at the auctions was steadier. There was a 314 cents

TO-DAY'S CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

Peking. October 14.

The President is in good health. It was the doubtful movement London, October 13. of Chang Jok-lin's troops that cansed the people to believe the recent A wireless message from Wrangel's headquarters chronicles the rumours so readily. At present the capital and outskirts are quite countinuance of successful operations, particularly in the Alexan-tranquil. drovsk district, where the Dnieper has been forced. Three regiments captured a Red musition factory containing 50,000 shells, which was expenses. blown up.

DEATH OF A FAMOUS EVANGELIST.

London, October 13. The well-known evangelist Dr. Charles McCallon Alexander has passed away.

The Government has granted $10,000 towards Li Shan's funeral

Shanghai, October 1

The conditions for the reunion of the squadron in Canton with the North have been definitely arranged. A new post named the Coast Defence Commissioner will soon be created.

The proposal made by the communities in Shanghai to äppoint | Lu Yung-chung, the Defence Commissioner, as Lishan's successor Kwan. bas been strongly protested against by Chang Jok-lin and T

(Other Telegrams on Page 2).

Dr. Alexander, who was born in the U.9.A. just 53 years ago. made an evangelistic tour of the world in conjunction with the Rev. R. &. Torrey, the undertaking lasting from 1902 till 1906. For-two months he conducted daily at the Royal Albert Hall, London, the ABSENT DEFENDANT. the Court. The nephew told the largest evangelistic choir (4,000) erer organised, his singing of the Glory Bong vaining him a universal reputation. In 1904 he married Miss Helen Cadbury, a member of the Quaker family of cocoa manufacturers and proprietors of the Daily News, with whom he made another world tour. Dr. Alexander, who was the composer of a number of hy mua, also conducted missions to the Far East in co-operation with Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, of New York)

GERMAN REPARATIONS.

Magistrate that his uncle wa

way in the steamer, which AWAY ON A VOYAGE. sailed from this port on the 2nd instant for Saigon. “And will Recently judgment wasdeliver-return to Hongkong?" queried his

on the

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to

of

the day in

in boar. Witness

The

WILA

by Mr. Nemazeesome thirty years men had a slender acquaintance village from · Repulse

The present site was purchased lish a language with which both very fast manner towards the go for a few cents a foot. but The important point in the The speed was between 40 and Bay.

to-day it would fetch $3.50 a fost.gotiations arrived when the 50 miles

The cost of the new houses is defendants' agent handed to the bald up his hand as a signal to estimated at $195,000, and they plaintiff a revised draft of a sug-the defendant to stop. will take

No doubt a year before being seated lease.

Da momentum of the car ready for occupation.

receiving it the plaintiff honestly such that A good many In the ordinary way, the local thought that he was accepting a yards had been traversed before Government might have advartedal offer from the defendants,the car responded to the clutch some three lakhs to Mr. Semafor a lease, on terms settled by still thereby completing an agreement and on the basis of two-thirds of the the draft, to be executed later.the witness: "What's

The defendant asked

granted. we are told. as the Go- value of the land, but less has been

the

vernment wishes to give other in- dividuals money for building in Kowloon.

The

to,

stand-

Japanese witness who matter?" and witness replied delivered the draft to the "You are driving altogether too plaintiff has stated in evid-fast." "What if Lam 1" rejoinad ence that be made

it the defendunt. "There is no clear at the time that the delivery speed limit here.” of the revised draft was not an offer of any kind but was merely

AFTER 10 MONTHS.invitation to costigne negotia-

THIEVING HOUSEBOY

ARRESTED.

The story of the capture of a house-boy who nineteen months ago succeeded in removing, during the absence of his master from the house, crockery ware, cloth. ing, etc. and managed to evade Police arrest at the time, was told jus to-day.

The bearing was proceeding aa we went to prens.

DAY BY DAY.

tions on the basis of the draft. I accept the good faith of all witnesses called on both sides. The onus of proving that an agree ment was made between the parties rests on the plaintiff who claims damages for breach of agreement. This onos, in my

To-morrow's Pictorial Supple- opinion, has not been disebarged.ment will contain several pickaren It seems to me not impossible of decided local interest, moled- that the parties misunderstooding a group taken at the wedding one another. Judgment will be of Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse and entered for the defendants with

Mrs. Macfarlane: photos of costs.

participants in the recent Harbour Swim (Miss Ruby Young, Mrs. Richmond and Mr. J. R. Jabastone); a picture taken at the recent Catbolic procession in Kowloon; and a photo of Mr. MacLachlan and Mr. Muir, the Bualists in the Colony's Singles Lawn Bowls Championship.

P. W.D. COOLIES GASSED.

The "boy" was in the employ af Mr. C. J. Thompson. of the Harbour Ofice. It was in March, 1919, at 2, Morton Terrace when Mr. Thompson, after leaving his DOUBLE FATALITY. house in the moming, returned home at 2 p.m. and discovered that his boy had cleared off with B quantity of clothing and various other articles, the whole being vained stover four hundred Two coolies employed by the dallan. Before going, the boy, Public Works Department re- The Chinese charged the other crockery ware, and helped him working in a man-bolest Soy Street parposes was brought up before it appears. maibed lot of cumbed to the gas fumes whilst day with soliciting for immoral

self to refreshments, alcoholle yesterday. When efforts were Mr. G.K. Orms this morning. and otherwise. Although the made to restore them after their when be produced the woman matter was reported to the Police, removal from the sewer, it was who had "engaged him. The the boy was not apprehended... found that they were past woman, Mary Howard, « Chilian, Yesterday Mr. Thomspon medical aid Death by asphyxis-was bound over in a sum of $100 received secret information that | tion was pronounced. (the boy was working at the Post [signal station as a coolie, where. there last night at nine o'clock, upos he, with detectives, went

and succeeded in arrasting the delinquent.

Station, the boy. is said to have When taken to the Police

admitted stealing the things.

NEW WATERBOAT.

LAUNCHED AT KOWLOON

YESTERDAY.

Yesterday there was launched at the Kowloon Docks another Waterboat addition to the feet of the Union Company, whose managing agents are Messrs, Dodwell and Co. Her name is the Tai Ng, which brings the strength of the Union Waterbost flast up to nine.

CRICKET.

for twelve months, while the Chinese was discharged. It was stated in evidence that the woman engaged the Chinese to question two naval men, st whose instance he was arrested. Mention was made that the woman would be. STAFF AND DEPTS. v. L.R.C. deported by the Police from the

Calony.

been

The following have selected to represent the Staff and Depts in the shove match, arranged to take place

Bookunpoo Valley to-mONOW, commenting at 2.15 p.m. Capt. Tomory, Condr: Harding, 8. Sgt. Marah, S. Sgt. Long Sgt. Hollands, Cpl. Rhodes, L. Cpl. Filmer, Fie. Robson, L. CpL pinks, Q.M.B. Maughan and Sgt.

Wilkinson.

CADET COMPANY.

Parades-The Company will parade at Headquarters on Toes- day, 19th inst, at 5.30 pto. Dress:

ed at the Summary Court for & Worship. No, it will proceed to The christening ceremony was

Orders for Cadet Company of thousand dollars against the Bangkok." "Then it will return to performed by Mr. J. Johnstone, the Hongkong Volunteer Defence compradore of the Younas Maru. Hongkong?" anxiously enquired wife of the superintendent of Corpt by Lieut. A. J.M. Weyman That sum had not been paid, and Mr. Ball. **No it will go from the Union Waterboat Company, state:— to this circu.astance Mr. E. L. Bangkok to Singapore, replied Limited, and there were also Agassiz attributed the non- the deputy-defendant. The Court SUCCESSFUL ANGLO-BELGIAN NEGOTIATIONS,

appearance of the compradore was anch relieved to hear when, at the Police Court this from brie liter thatý po Brussels, October 13. morning, « summons was beard sibly the steamer will istura According to the "Libre Belgique, the discussions in London by Mr. Dyer Ball against the to Hongkong after ita dall sen Mr. Lloyd George and the Belgian Premier, M, Delacroix, man for not affixing a stamp of at Singapore This led 262 Jäing German reparations, ware successfully concluded. The sufficient valua to a promissory Agassiz saking his Worship to dnevs. Conference will not be held, while the Reparations Com note. Mr. Agassiz shated that it remand the case mine ale until

, after hearing the Geruiens explanation of their proposal, was his belief that the compradore the return of the Yunis Haru, report to the various Gowszaments instead of arriving at a was in hiding, henne the roomms when a welt will be served on by itself. A further conference will be shortly held.in of putting up his nephew to the compradors on board the

but shower – for his – sing · bofsen vedio).

TO-DAY'S EXCHANⱭE.

The closing rate of the dollar, or demand, to-day was 33/1143.

THE WEATHER

2 p.m. Barometer:-29.84 Tem- perature-80. Humidity 8

DON'T FORGET.

TO:DAT.

Commst Thestrem: 5.15 and $.15

prasent Messra. G. K. Dodwell, J. Johnstone, the superintendent, and C. Gerken, the Secretary.

Drill order, Mrs. Johnstone was presented Band-The Band will parade: Hous zong Theatre---5,15, 7.15-- with a gold bangle in Com at Headquarters on Monday, 18th and 2.15 pas. memoration of the launching, and instant at 5.30 pm Dress: afterwards the health of the Drill Order (with instrumentale Watärboat Company was drunk. Clage of Instruction —A Cincy There is another new best on of Instruction for N.00 walbe

the socks who sold have held at Headstars in Frank

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