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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NOTES & COMMENTS.

Crown Prince's Arrival.

TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1921.

DAY BY DAY.

MOTOR CASES.

European Heavily Fined.

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SOMEBODY ELSE'S WIFE.

bell sounded on the tramcar, and i as it moved off, the motor oar! did likewise, that the latter's } greator capacity for getting up IN A STATE, PECUNIARY GAIN

speed, made it pass the tram soon At the Magistracy before Mr. Promptly to schedule, if not 28 NOT TO BE CONSIDERED TO BE

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at afterwards. The only time when R. E. Lindeell yesterday afternoon, a little before, the Japanese PROSPERITY, BUT ITS PROSPERITY Crown Prince has reached the WILL BE FOUND IN RIGHTEOUS- the Magistracy this morning, Mr. the conductor had occasion to Chinese police constable, attached

passenger Van der Steen was charged on prevent

from to No. 1 Station, was charged with shores of Albion, and no doubt NE3S.-Confucius.

remand, at the

harbouring a married woman st instanco of alighting from the tramcar was Reuter will be liberal of messages

were in No. 57 Wuhu Street. Hunghom, Inspector Garrod, with failing to when both vehiclea during the next two or three

between December 6th. last year weeka concerning the shower ofis

stop his car after the occurrence case was such that he had not to sound bis horn and failing to motion.

Mr. Crewe, continuing said his and May lat. compliments that is sure to issue

of an accident. from both sides. This is as it

rely solely on the evidence of the should be, for, besides being our

The summonses were in con-chauffeur. There were a number sequence of an accident occurring of passengers in the car, all ally, the Crown Prince is a unique guest, (Parenthetically For the possession of 48 rounds on the 20th April last when, in Chinese of high standing in the wa may express a hope that the of revolver ammunition & Chinose rounding the City Hall corner Colony, who would bear out his messages will not be quite so from America was this morning into Des Voeux Road, motor car

story. lavish as to-day's batoh) Apart fined $15 by Mr. R.E. Lindsoil who No 191, then driven by Mr. from the formal receptions, with also confiscated the contraband. Van der 3teen, knocked down then called, and His. Worship 80 between.

Evidence for the defence was A Chinese coolie, who was injured, though not very serions, eventually decided that the sum that about a year ago, the woman

AS. WATSON & CO., LTD., Highness, it may be remembered,

HONGKONG.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong, Teleptione: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition. Western Unio. Ollice address: 11, Ico House Street.

Birth.

returning to the Colony by the His Excelloney Sir R. E. Stubbs Empress of Japan" duo early on Thursday, the 12th instant.

none should be dismissed.

COMPANY REPORT.

The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd.

Mr W. Schofield, first assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, prosecuted,

Defendant disclaimed know-

ledge of the existence of the woman's husband, who is a seaman.

He married her as a widow, the wife of another constable being the

The constable'a wife deposed

and

bad not acted as defendant's go-between. Defendant must have known that Cheung Yau WAS a married woman.

The only question is whether de. fendant knew or had any reason to believe that Cheung You was mar- ried.

thoirconcomitant of panegyric and optimistic prophecy, for much of which there is and should con- Lo Chun-wei, a shopkeopor ofly. It was alleged that Mr. Van Other traffic summonses dealt Cheung, Yau and her kit fat· tinue to be substantial ground, No. 19 Central Street, reports der Steen did not stop his car with offences of leaving cars un-husband, Tong Ngau, moved to his Imperial Highness is pretty that on April 25th. his accountant after the accident, but continued attended, in respect of which No. 7 Chung Wo lane, and occupied sura of a cordial welcome from absconded with $2,200 which he on his way.

fines of $5 were imposed.

the front oubicle, Witness lived from bis firm's The victim of the accidenti There were

in the Cear cubicle the public at large, to whom the had collected

twonty truck. : ព his evidence ataled spectacle of an Eastern Prince, debtors.

that drivers charged before his worship was very BOON оп friendly on the threshhold of life, break-

he was 15 feet in front of the with various contraventions of teams. Defendant, who wasstation. ing his country's a.o-long The wedding will shortly take ear when it rounded the corner. the traffic regulations. In one of ed at the time at Pokfulum, tradition by inspecting the Occid-place between Mr. Carlos Flavio The car's horn was not sounded, theso a truck-driver, who without frequented her bouse. In September ent for himself is pretty sure Vas of the Eastern Extension and he was knocked down by the any warning suddenly pulled his last year witness's husband was to appeal. It has been several Telegraph Company, and Miss right mudguard and rendered vehicle

across the roadway transferred to Mongkok and she had times stated that the Crown Bertha Maris Leun, of No. 23 unconscious. When he came to, narrowly missing a collision with no knowledge of Cheung You. She Prince has undertaken the tour Shelley' Stacet.

the car had disappeared.

a motor car which with great from an educational, not 4

Lan San deposed that he was difficulty swerved out of his way, political, motive, and his Imperial

with the last witness on the after-was fined $10. Before Lt. Conway Hake, R.N., noon in question and was an eye- is only a youth of twenty Marine Magistrate, three boat witness of the accident.

Tang Ngau the woman's husband summera. The visit, however, men were charged this morning The car's horn was not

testified to the usual marriage almost synchronises with the with making fast to the .. sounded when it turned

ceremony which he went through Dominions Conference and the Takada while under way, and the corner, with the result that;

when he married Cheung Yau negotiations for the renewal of before she had boon examined by the complainant, who was cross-

five years ago at Yaumati. He the Anglo-Japanese Treaty, and a Police officer. They were fineding the road, was knocked down.

went to sea last year on Octo. ber Witness was four feet away from as there are some experienced $75.

6th., nad 00 bis return diplomatists in the Prince's

the car at the moment of the

discovered his wile hed dis- entourage it ін practically

He accident. The complainant was The report of the Board of appeared.. finally located inovitable that the relations A shoplifter, who stole a piere not able to regain his feet, he had Directors to the presented of the her at No. 57 Wuhu Street. between the two countries will of silk from the Chinese Shing to be lifted up by witness. The car meeting of shareholders, to he Mr Lindsell to Mr Schofield: come under discussion.

Company last night, was this slowed down a little after the held on Saturday, 21st May, 1921, morning sentenced to four week'e accident, but this was only states :— hard labour. When defendant momentarily. It resumed its To pay a Dividend of Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K. left the shop after examining speed and drove off.

$1.50 per share on has been in the limelight from

Mr. W. Van der Steen made his 239,126 Shares ...$358,689.00 Mr Schofield agreed. He said

in the time to time since he scored a matter of the charge was found statement

witness To place to Reservo....$100,000.00 the woman had given birth to a suid that he was To pay a bonus to staff $28,719.24 ebild about a week ago. Her hus. coming down from the Peak To carry forward to

band, Tang Ngau, claimed the sensational success ut Honley by missing. He was caught in the bos. Ho

Tramway station on his way to next account. Winning the Diamond Sculls through his strongly-fancied!

...$112,754.06 child as his. rival, Mr. Howoll, collapsing and

Directors. Hon. Mr. J. John, Cheung You nacribed her re-mar- Yesterday's return of notifiable the Hongkong Hotel, and was falling, insensible, into the water. diseases in the Colony shows that turning round the Des Voeux stone having resigned on leaving tiage to a rumour that her husband Since then, as lawyer, politician, there were two fatal cases of Road bend whon he saw a Chia-the Colony, Mr. D. G. M. Bornard had died at sea. Defendant did dramatist, and sportsman, Mr. plague, five fatal cases of small-se running towards a tram-was invited to fill the vacancy. not know she had a husband; in fact Hommerdo has come into notice pox and

the right side of the This appointment requires the she did not tell him anything about опо case each of car, on on a number of occasions. His diphtheria and enteric fever. All road. Witness applied his brakes confirmation of Shareholders. In herself. latest appearance in the head-the above sufferers were Chinese, but the car had struck the man. accordance with the Articles of lines of the Press is of another One case of paratyphoid fever Following this, witness stopped Association Hon. Mr. A O. Lang sort. A moneylender brought was also notified the patient being his car, saw the man being and Mr. G. M. Dodwell retire, but an action against Mr. Hemmerde, of British Nationality.

helped to his feet, and naturally being eligible, offor themselves and in the

concluding from this that the for re-election.

Auditor. The accounts have man was not seriously injured, that the latter obtained £10,000 Eight shopkeepers were sum- he again drove off.

been audited by Mr. C. Bernard from the Liberal Party's funds in moned by Ravenue Officers at Is it not your duty when you Brown, A.C.A. who retires, but 1909, which led to questions being the Magistracy this morning for knock down a man to get out of [offers himself for re-election. asked in Parliament the other the possession of different quanti-the car and help him?" inter- Our Chinese friends in Canton appear to be angry day. The answer appears to ex-ties of dutiable, cigarettes. In ogated his worship.

Defondant: Yes, that would be with the Hongkong Government over the latter's attitude culpate the party Whip, and Mr. one or two of the cases, the

Hemmerde has since explained packets containing cigarettes, the best thing to do. to the inauguration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen as President, and that the sun was a personal loan bore an export mark, which had bim from several M.P's been eradicated. Mr. Orme the Canton Times of yesterday not only repeated what was to being said in the vernacular press but also relieved its irrespective of party. Mr. Hem-imposed fines ranging from $15

The instruction morde also explains that his $100. feelings in the course of a leader."

financial embarrassment is due to

GOW.--At Scotstown, Glasgow, on 25th April, to Mr. and Mrs. A Chequered Career. David Gow, Kowloon, a son. By cable.

Death.

GOWA Scotstown, Glasgow, on 1st May, Mrs. David Gow (nee Queenie Tatcham), wife of Mr. David Gow, Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld. By cable.

The Hongkong Telegraph

to be no

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1921.

CANTON'S ANGER.

tho hoaring it

different kinds of silk, the subject |

street.

off course

alleged was

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to

appeared ín

Defendant's statement was that

he married the woman on the recom- mendation of his confrere's wife, who assured him that the husband had died. He paid $20 to his comrade's wife as expenses incurred by Cheung You when she was a boarder in her touse.

The constable, husband of the first witness, Bupported his wife's statement.

Mr Lindsell told the constable

DR. CAMPBELL'S AMERICAN TOUR that his wife was a diagrece to him. With regard to the Rev. R. J. Į She ought to have been in the dock Campbell's visit to America, it for aiding and abetting. She was is announced that he was invited lucky.

In further examination the defendant admitted that after the accident be drove off, and made report of it to the Police.

by the Bishop of California to To defendant his Worship said: His Worship: Four witnesses visit the diocese to undertake! am sure that you must have said you never sounded your born preaching engagements. Dr. known perfectly well that the at all as you turned round the Campbell, who will devote his woman was a married woman. summer holiday to the tour, will You had no reason to suspect that Defendant: When I turned leave London this month and her husband was daad.

$100,

corner.

Í fine you

He

bofore

Between Ourselves

Then

issued by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs that there were operating very heavily on the

public demonstrations in the Colony on Thursday Stock Exchange, an imprudent A respectable locking woman, last has been described in the Canton Chinese press as "an proceeding at most times, and who summoned a Chinese for outrageous proclamation which has greatly aroused the particularly so when the operator assault, was severely admonished indignation of the Chinese." And there was a great deal confesses that he is, like Mr. by Magistrate Lindsell this mora-round the corner I of course return in August. more couched in a similar strain. We were told that inasmuch Harold Skimpole, a mere child in ing when she said that the sounded my horn.

defendant, who such worldly matters. It will be

The chauffeur employed by the as Chinese in the interior have often celebrated the birthday interesting to see how Mr. Hem. Court, was not the man she de-defendant deposed that he was of H. M. the King and that no prohibitive order has ever merde's vicissitudes of fortune ired to prosecute. In dismissing sitting next to his master who been issued by the officials of China, the Hongkong affect his relations with the Lab the summons his Worship said had charge of the wheel.

the · horn Government by its forbiddance of demonstrations didur Party, whose prospective he would not bother with a case sounded

the bend something calculated to injure Chinese friendship and Attorney-General be is sometimes in which the complainant had negotiating, the corner.

wes heing looked upon as being a singular shown such culpable careless-just as

By Robt. MacWhirter. His Worship also ordered taken, a man ran in front of the arouse indignation. Just let us see.

position, at first sight, for a Win-ose.

that no

further summons be car and was knocked down. The Janet's one of those folks that penny it coats. Or course chester and Oxford man.

granted to the woman.

car, this witness said, stopped for think that newspaper folks write it's really quite simple and at five minutes after the accident. every line that appears in their times affords a welcome break to

Asked if he had anything to sheets. I very noor said “rags" the tired journalist in between

connection with this but I mustn'a do that. Rage are the process of writing solema Who evidence, the defendant said that quite useful at times. My wife's editorials and the movements of

chauffeur was telling a great on reading those edifying steamers. falsehood when he stated that the wee bits of information that are Ia pukka up-to-the-minute car stopped for five minutes. usually to be found at the bottom newspaper offices they specialise His Worship said that he was of the column or discovered nest in this branch of journalism,

Our friends in Canton have a right to elect a President if they wish, and they also have a right to celebrate that election. But the fact remains that that President and

An Intermittent Sport.

A fine, but much-abused sport,

,

00 the

the Government that elected him is not recognised by any ofwrestling, has lately been exhibit bers, armed with daggers, broke ay in

Yesterday afternoon three rob- the foreign Powers, Britain included. The Cunton people ing one of its intermittent fluiters

into No 1 Yee have appealed for recognition and possibly feel that they of animation. There have been Street, and surprised the bis ought to have it, but that makes not one iota of difference to aundry bouta in New York, mostly

occupante, who were talking i

sitting room. the position of the longkong Government. So long as at Madison Square Garden, which together in the

at one time and another has Two of them seized one of the Britain chooses to recognise the Peking Government only provided the arena for many women, while the other intruder already of that way of thinking, ling cosily in between the adver- going so far in fact as to keep a the Canton government is a rebel Government and demons-celebrities. On Saturday a match attack the woman's mother. The He found both charges proved tisements and last week's football statician

premises. trations in its favour could never be permitted to take place took place for what is described

was against the defendant, and on news. Youk now the kind I mean. Wonderful fellows these. Listen Latter remonstrated and

"The year 1921 corresponds to to this. in this Colony, Hongkong cannot help itself in the as the heavy-weight champion- stabbed in the neck. The robbers the charge of not sounding his

"With the average haircut & matter; it was compelled by international usages to do ship of the world, Zbysko defeat then relieved the older woman of horn, be would impose a fine of the year 8030 of the Greek

barber wastes 1347 snips of the what it did. In the interests of law and order and ining "Strangler" Lewis in twenty-one of her ear-rings, set with $5. As regards the other charge Church."

"The full moon nearest to scissors on the air. In an 8 hour tbroe minutes. "Zbysko," we

Sept. 21 is popularly known as talking day enough snips are continuance of its friendship to Peking it took the only believe, is Polish for "the Bear jadestone, valued at $7. One of which was serious, he inflicted a

the amahs, managed to elude the fine of $50.

In another traffic case, the the harvest moon." course open to it. It is a pity that those who have spoken or

wasted in this manner by English- Bomething like that, the vigilance of the robbers and ran

"There is about a mile of wire speaking barbere as would out Hongkong Tramway Company of anger and indignation did not view the matter in its wrestler's name bis non-into the street, here she raised a

down a 12 aore field of wheat." being huc-and-cry, which caused the summoned the driver of motor in the interior of a piano." logical light before accusing the Hongkong Government of professional

car No. 222 for passing a "Permanant waves in the hair "It is estimated that if all the what they seem to think is petty antagonism. Presuming Stanislave Cyganjewitz. It is to robbers to take to their heals.

be hoped that thie grappler has

stationary tranicar on the left were first obtained in 1781 by used gramophone needles col- there are many Hongkong Chinese who view favourably livened up since that dreary affair

side.

boiling the hair and then baking lected from British homes and In spite of the threatened in- The evidence of the prosecu- | it." the recent happenings in Canton there must be many who at the White City Stadium in

placed on end a foot apart they "In India lizards are hunted would cover an area of 2,501,003 do not and there is no guaranteeing that demonstrations in London when he laid prone on element weather there was quite tion was to the effect that on

miles and account for 340,907,412- this Colony would have been free from opposition. When his abdomen for a couple of hours a good attendance at the St. the night of 29th April as a tram-for their skins."

"Egypt imported 2,478 bicycles tyre punctures and three times the Canton Times, in its leader, says that the attitude of refusing to take any risk, although John's Cathedral last night, when car was discharging passengers

he had the weight advantage, in Mr. Donman Fuller, F.R.C.O., at Western Market, motor car in 1920."

that number of swear words.” Hongkong is almost hostile it fails to distinguish between the match with Gama, a Hindoo gave a most enjoyable and highly No. 222. came out of Morrison "The Eiffel Tower in Paris is "If all the "What?

promoted by Mr. Horatio appreciated organ recital. The Street, at a very fast pace and 984 feet high." hostility and ordinary precaution.

in

Intervals

Can do? Ohi all right there's picture to finish up withen.

"The present number of Jews Let us be frank and admit we very much like the tone Bottomley, and also purporting to programme had been most care- passad the tramcar on the near of the concluding sentences of the Times editorial. True, ba for the world's championship. fully selected and included such side, scattering the passengers, in the world is estimated to be the interests of Hongkong and Canton run very much in The Pole's opponent in last week's varied composers as Guilmant, and, But for the prompt action of 15,430,291,"

"The electric oel of Brazil can match is presumably "Strang-Schumann, Mendelssohn, John-the conductor in holding some parallel lines and a hinterland "prosperous, developed, ler" Lewis the Second, for his son, Coates, Handel and Wolsten- of them back, there would" What? No more? Obl an all right. Whatever you say well governed and free from pirates and brigands" is the namesake, who obtained potoristy holme. Mr. Denman Fuller's undoubtedly have been very thing that we in Hongkong have so long prayed for in the eighties or nineties on rendering of the whole of the scoident. One witness, Mr. H. W. yourself! I was only showing It might just be that the present regime in Canton is account of the hold indicated by compositions was fully up to his Hammond, an Inspector of the ye how easy it was done. making an endeavour to give us that, but until it has made his sobriquet, must have reached usual high standard The soloist Tramway Compay, gave evidence

a long way in the sero

Bowes-Smith, who before his worship. its entry into the family of the world's recognised govern-yellow. Possibly some reader made her first public appearance Mr. A.II. Crowe, who appeared must have bad expensive educa ments it cannot, officially, exist-at least so far as this may recall the encounter between in the Colony on whose solos for the defence, said that I is case tions 1 should say so. If Colony's Government is concerned. And, therefore, all the the original "Strangler" and the were among the best enjoyed was that the motor car came up their schooling is

ratio to the patience of 17,049,105,407 thewa in a piece of talk about hostility, anger and indignation is, to say the once-famous Japanese, Matsada items of a really pleasurable even behind the tramcar which was in

Boraklebi,

stationary and pulled up. Then a their least, rather fatuous,

Mrs. and was

Ing.

Janet thinks the folk that write this sort of stuff for a living

onytbing Statician Anda there are exactly readers it's worth every chewing gum,