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A Greivance.

MONDAY, JULY 18. 19.

DAY BY DAY.

Marison, Mr. Kerr and Mr. AND INVADE THE FIELD OF EACH

LATE SINGAPORE NEWS.

The Rice Situation.

Singapore, July 18.

LOCAL EDUCATION.

Report for 1820.

Wer.

An

PREFERRED DEATH SENTENCE

Prisoner's Fratert at the

Sessions

THE MOMENT THAT LAW IS DE-

The Report of the Director of Education for 1990 (which has just The presentation of medals STROYED, LIBERTY" IS LOST, AND

been issued) states, among other to various members of our local | MEN, LEFT FREE TO ENTER UPON | torica dure specially the gif THE DOMAINS OF EACH OTHER (FYOR Our Own Correspondent) sahod fess received, the total neit the night of June 9th by the naise A vegetable gardener named things, that after deducting the Fan Fook was awakened late on of H.M. the King's medal to Mr. DESTROF EACH OTHER'S*RIGHTS.] *

axpenditure on education was of somebody forcing the doar of $444350.05 (8254,302 in 1919), his minished at Chai Wan. The Lane-was an event which we OTHER'S LIBERTY.-J. Q. Holland,

The rice situation is uncertain. The increase in mainly due to door was broken open and four foal sure gave gratification to all

It is hoped that if restriction is higher rates of salary. residents. The lot of a police For the 24 hours ended on necessary arrangements will be additional sum of $90,000 was torches and daggers and three of men entered. They aach carried offiour in this Colony is far from Saturday there were notified one made with Burps for certain voted for Capisation Grante owing them wore maks. The unfor being all "bear and akiities" and fatal case of plague (Chinese) and supplies. it is but just that recognition one fatal case of enteric fever Rubber Company's Difficulty.the year the Grants to English were tied up and the robbers to more schools being included in tunate gardener and another man for long and faithful or meritor (Indian).

the Grant Scheme. And during who was living in the matahed ious service should be forth-

The Kundeng Estate debenture schools, which had not been ransacked the place, carrying coming. But there is, among the ranks of other subordinate offic Mr. Justice Skinner Turner being unable to continue the increased, absorbing $1,036 addi- and a few cents in cash. Fan

issus has failed, the Secretaries Dvised since the

were away a quantity of clothing, rice ers in the Colonial civil service, Judge of H. B. M. Supreme Court loans. The alternatives left, are tional. $23,500 a complaint that no matter how for China, arrived yesterday by the acceptance of the affer of the Estimates of 1919 was voted for matter to the police, with the аботе the Fook subsequently reported the long or faithful or how meritor the Ventor. He will sit in the Pernambang Company to pur Education. School and Technical before Mr. Justice Gomperta st ious their service might be, there Appeal Court to-morrow.

upon Vernacular result that Wu Sun appeared is no equivalent recognition to that given to the police. If one takes our Sanitary Inspectors, and our Revenue Officers one is party of Police executed an arms dealing with a class of men warrant at No. 47 Wallington. almost identical to that of the Steer. On the discovery of a police force and whose work often dagger and a knuckle-duster, a The railway service between leads the members of those Filipino, in whose possestion the Bangkok and Penang' will be services into places of danger. weapons were proved, was arrest-accelerated at the end of the There are

the ed. Brought before the Court year by a 34 hours service instead Sanitary and Revenue staffs who this morning a fine of $10 was of the three day's service as a were originally recruited from the inflicted on the culprit. Police and they feel that because

many mea on

chase the estate, or the flotation

to present shareholders.

Faster Travelling.

present.

and spent

of a new company, wherein the Institute fees amounting to $183-the Sessions this morning ebarged bulk of the shares will be allotted: 02 were collected ($103,505 in with robbery. Acting-Inspector Clark and a

1919). In addition $4,781 fees ware remitted to free scholars case of wrong identification. Prisoner pleaded that it was a N$4,185 in 1919)

When charged at the Police The estimated British Staff was Station, before the Magistrate's

nen and

women. Court and also this morning be it was 5 men and 16 women he was at Yaumati. He told the At the close of the year said that on the night in question short. This shortage has been Court this morning that there remedied to some extent by the were many men with similar amployment of temporary wonen fastures and one of the witnesses teachers, of whom several have was an old enemy fairly good qualifications. Others brought a false charge against and had have none at all: such teachers him. This the witness in ques- become after a few months of tion denied. some value, but they need much

age was increased by the necessity supervision, and they cannot take big classes unaided. The short

University as explained under of coming to the assistance of the

that heading below.

The number of pupils receiving

they were chosen for other duties The circumstances in which a they ought not to lose the Chinese woman, 30 years of age. chance of a decoration. Apart was discovered by the Police life- from the Imperial Service Order less and with a wound oo her which we believe is almost ex-forehead in Wing On Street yes clusively confined to the execu-terday point to the probability of tive ranks of the civil service foul play. The Police are now JOHNSON-At Kowloon, on the 17th July, the wife of Capt.

there is DO honour which endeavouring to bring the mur- G. T. Johnson, 22nd Pungabis, a son.

subordinate servants canderer or murderers to book. strive or qualify for and the TAYLOR-On 18th July, at French Hospital, Causeway Bay. absence of any such bocour is to Mr. and Mr. R. Taylor, a daughter.

Births.

Acknowledgment.

Mr. W. Armstrong and Miss Armstrong tender sincerest thanks to all friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement, also for the floral tributes sent.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1921.

baying public if they hope to retain their fair share of China's import trade in the future."

not a little keenly felt. This is a

90

defensive forces and are concen-

driving a force along the south

by way of Pakhoi, and Kochow and by forcing their way down into Kwangtung from the north by way of Linchow, Yangshan converge to a central point there a by automatically forcing the Cantonese troops to withdraw from the Wuchow salient in

manner.

£90 FOR BUTTLE OF DEER. A bottle of ale brewed by the gift sale at Ashford, Kent.

a

ALLEGED STABBING

CASE

Defaulting Juryman Fined

Trouble with a Chinese woman over her child led to Ip Kam Fin's appearance in the dock

She refused

The jury brought in a verdict

to 5 years' hard labour. of guilty by a majority of five to two and prisoner was sentenced

had nothing to do with the rod- Prisoner protested that he had

bery and the Court had sentenced him to 5 years' imprisonment; it

the

*

Between Ourselves

By Robt. MacWhirter.

know too damned much. By the time they're five, nothing short of stir them out of their superiority a wholesale earthquake would

was a motor bike and a side car and self-complacency, unless it

for their sixth birthday. They're too hanged clever, kids nowadays.

AIB

At an hour early this morning before Mr. Justice Wood at the an English Education was nearly would have been better if His master to which we think the an Indian constable made a aur Criminal Sessions this morning-10,000, or more than 3 times what Lordship had sentenced him to local Gorerament should give reptitious entry into the office He was charged with wounding it was 20 years ago. The increase death. some attention, if only to make a occupied by Revenue Officers a woman named Chan Ying with in Vernacular Education, in the recommendation to the proper the Imports and Exports shed on pair of scissors on June 16th.

His Lordship replied that if authorities at Home. Through-the Prays and extracted from the

year under review is striking, but prisoner behaved himself properly Mr. F. Dyer Ball conducted the is partially explained by the fact in prison and conducted himself out the whole of the subordinate tanic of an Europeso officer a case for the Crown Prisoner that more schools in the New quietly be would get a remission civil service this feeling of "being purse containing money and was not legally represented. The Territories have come under the of four months for every year. left out in the cold prevails. In papers. He was

caught red-jury were Mesars. A. C. Franklin bands of the Department The Prisoner was then led quietly. the interests of the service as a handed and later brought before (foreman), J. A B. de Silva, J. F. combined average attendance at away. whole such a feeling should be the Magistrate and charged.

Anderson. D. P. J. Lopes, H. J.three British Schools, 163, was removed as quickly as possible.

Koch, A. Mendea and A. Allison. the same as in 1919. There was conducted by Mr. G. E. Wake- The case for the Crown was The case, as outlined by the falling off in attendance at the man. The jury were: Messrs. C. Two motor accidents took place] The Neighbouring

during the week-end. In one of

prosecution, WES that the Peak School, for reasons pro- M. Soares (foreman), A. H. de woman, 摄 widow, with Fighting.

one bably connected with the very Caryalho, Yeung Ho, J. M. de these a Chinese lad, 17 years old, child-a girl about 6 years of great difficulty which was experi- Rocha, A. E. Crapnell, Wang Tak was knocked down by motor car The news of the past week No. 357 and suffered injuries to age. The woman met prisoner in enced in maintaining the Staff. Kwong and W. Thomas. THE SINO-GERMAN AGREEMENT.

regarding the fighting between his ankle. This occur ed in.

The Victoria School also she w Canton about 15 months ago and the Two Kwangs has been to the Queen's Road East The second and the three of them came to ed a falling off, partly the cause Territories was 28,707. This is China, like the United States, has ceased to be at war effect that on the centre front-accident was of a more serious Prisoner took them to a house in decision to confine it to girls and the increase in papils in English Hongong in May fast year.and partly the consequence of a an increase of 2,971 over 1919, with Germany The technical state of belligerency is River-the Cantonese forces bave moved to the Government Civil Third Street where they lived small

above Wuchow and on the West character, the victim being re-

boys. The Kowloon Schools being 647 and in the terminated by the agreement ratified this month, and the been making progress. It has Hospital after being thrown down together for about ten days. School on the other hand began Vernacular Schools, 2,274, step is worth noting because of the gratification aroused in been achieved at fairly consider by motor car No. 237.

At the end of that time at the end of the year, to grow

The Director (Mr. E. Irving) Chinese circles, to say nothing of German quarters.able cost even on the admittance

they found that their funds were exceedingly, and beyond ita. went on to state that as he had Members of the Chinese Administration and of the The object of the Cantonese beid on Saturday evening bying and eventually, at prisoner's schools in the Colony excluding of

of the Cantonese themselves.

getting low and the woman seating accommodation.

completed his 20th year in the A successful whist drive was pawned a great deal of her cloth- The total number of pupils at Department a brief comparison Chamber of Commerce in the capital express their gratifica- general is obviously to drive 8th Coy. R. G. A. in the R. A suggestion, she went in a house the Police School and the un-would perhaps be allowed. tion at the renewal of relations, and while some of this long salient right up the west Theatre, Victoria Barracks. The of ill fame. Prisoner suggested controlled schools in the New

general, development may be discounted as the kind of thing customary upon river to Nanning, the capital of following were the prizewinners that she should sell her daughter,

This we hope to give ister. such an occasion there is sufficiently significant unte Kwangsi and

force Lak Ladies 1st. Mr. Holman 171; but this she refused to do. running through their observations. As one expresses to

Wing-ting and his associates 2nd, Mrs. Sandford 169; 3rd, Mrs. Prisoner obtained money from the situation:The agreement restores Germany as a band capitulate. On the other Dovaston 167: Hidden No, Mrs. her and theatened to sell the serious competitor to England and America in China. take note of the obvious strategy 183: 2nd, Mr. Yate 179; 3rd Mr. care of another party in Third

is interesting

King 116. Gents 1st. Mr. Hayter child, which had been left in the The English and Americans have thus lost the monopoly of the Kwangsi commanders. Lewis 176: 4th, Mr. Snow, 176 Street. which has been theirs sime the outbreak of the War, and They are content to leave the Hidden No, Mr. Andrews. 148. came to the house where the fairly plagued the life of me to

On June 16th prisoner

The woe yin has for months past they will have to work harder than they have hitherto and centre, front protected only by C.S.M. Williams carried out the woman lived. in Water Street and Now, our fire-station at Kowloon take her and see the fire engine. pay inore attention to the requirements of the Chinese rating on the two wings. Brauties of M. C. in an efficient demanded money.

to give him any and he went and so near the road that ye get is an approachable kind o' place away saying that he was going to In support of this we are told that Chinese commercial

sell the daughter. Later in the awful eyeful of brass and red evening the woran learned that paint as ye pass it ferry ward. men have for some time been much interested in a renewal of trade and diplomatic relations, as since the outbreak of and Yintak they are seeking to late King Edward realised 190 at and soon after prisoner again every kid in the neighbourhood grace when the wee vin asked

the child had been taken away if you fire engine was at home from the boose where she lived and as near the road and aa opeo, I took it then as a sign of the war. China has suffered greatly from a lack of those German goods upon which she depended. The advent of

visited her. There was a quarrel minnte o' the day. They would

would be hanging round it every to see the Fire Engine. So off we set. And when we got there peace in Europe did not do much to remedy this. as

and, it was alleged by complain need to have a special bobby-I we had a good look at every Germans trying to do business in China had no legal order to avoid being cut off. If

ant prisoner took a pair of scissors status. Chinese business men declare that the re-establish the Kwangsi troops succeed in

from his pocket and stabbed ber mean a bobby specially on duty thing and 1 answered 1,425 in the eye. No arrest was made to keep them from rubbing their

different kind o' questons, 95 per. ment of relations between China and Germany will be a taking Yintak they will sever the

that night but at about seven gundie fingers on the brass work cont. of which werena' near benefit to both countries, and will play an important part Canton-Shiuchow railway and Case at Criminal Sessions, gave himself up to the police.

o'clock the next morning prisoner and getting mixed among the right. But we had a good time. wheels. In a station like that at in the industrial and commercial development of China.thereby cut off a great portion of

And I thought there was hope home, the Station Officer would. for the So may it b. The world will assuredly welcome any munication with its capital. It Chinese and a native woman of of witnesses and Dr. W. B. & messages for him, the_uid_que_Janet got on to me like a wick-

Evidence in support of this na' have the life o' a dog for boys yes,

rising generation A disagreement between a statement was given by a number of a likeable age wanting to run factor contributing to so desirable a result, which must will be interesting to watch the ill fame led to stabbing affray Moore, medical officer in charge pro, of course, being a look at the pocket st the very idea of taking enure to the advantage of all enterprising traders doing matter from a military porst of and to the appearance of Fang of the Government Civil Hospital engine or a pull at the bell rope. alassic among gear like you. She business in this part of the globe. Such a country as view apart allegother from the Panz in the dock, before Mr. said that the wound necessitated As a boy at home I speired my said a right lot of nasty things Germany is practically certain to reassert her industrial political. Both sides are feeling Justice Gompertz, at the Criminal the removal of the woman's eye way through our Fire Station, let me tell yo, the worst o' them proclivities, and so long as the competition is conducted though both are showing equal with wounding Li Yee Mai with the woman. He was her husband as 1 grew in, years. from a whe the strain of the.beasy fighting, Sessions this morning charged upon fair lines rivals cannot complain.

Prisoner denied that he stabbed rising ty degrees in promotion, being to the effect that she It is sufficiently manifest that in seeking to rebuild struggle. Canton is handicapped harm (or, alternatively, malicious to Siam and taking the child with patting the horses and burying also said, among other things, determination to continue the intent to do her grievous bodily and he heard that she was going keek in at the window until I got o' as was the biggest bairn. She didna koow which o' the two- her Far Eastern connections Germany is likely to have a for want of money and Kwangail wounding) on May 11th. The ber. Therefore he took the girl my head in a big brass helmet that the whole thing was just ■ friendly China to assist her. As a race the Germans, Intions. Peking has promised its by Mr. G. H. Wakeinan. Prisoner she was annoyed sod took a pair long kind o' probation, as well and that I inveigled the young. the days of their prosperity. were somewhat unpopular assistance but it must remain to

is bandicapped for want of muni- case for the Crown was conducted away. He saw complainant and I knew the fire station, after a made-up affair, which was a lie, among other nations on account of a certain arrogant be seen whether that assistance deportment, but they got along pretty well with the is forthcoming. The common tion that on the night previous

of scissors with which to stab as I did the inside o' our kirk, ster there just to see the fire.. It was alleged by the prosecu- him. There was a struggle and the tannery and the brickworks. engines myself which was an Chinese, despite the wrenching away of Kiao-Chau and opinion exists that the fighting to the assault prisoner asked the woman accidently cut her The only place we gave a wide other lie. And that I had no the historic injunction of the Kaiser at the time of the in any case, will be of lengthy woman Boxer expedition. There is a specific reason why Chinese of peace in sonthera Chias must do so because she had no money jury brought in a verdict of not we used to call" Flannel Belly duration; and so all one's hopes woman replied that she could not

berth was the Police Station. In club. The

more in my noadle than a newly After a short retirement, the these days we had an Inspector washed calf. That she gave me merchants welcome. the return of Fritz," seeing that be delayed for a while longer yet. The next night prisoner, with ajguilty and prisoner was accord-and-but, he'll have to keep for And that--but what's it matter credit for having more sense. they naturally hope to gain by the increased competition. especially as they believe that the low value of the mark

friend, came to the house and ingly discharged. will make it possible for them to purchase on very favour-

dragged the woman, who was Prisoner had to be dragged from in the times, I never see & Kow- Hiked the

As illustrating the difference

I asked the wes yin how sha able terms. The incidence of exchange works curiously,

standing just outside the door, the dock. He said he did not foon boy hanging about our Fire ignored the question direct and fire engine. She into the street and stabbed her in want to go away; he wanted an Station. Aye, they're for here we have another example of an advantage to Ger-

two places with a three-cornered explanation from complainant.

a blase wi bands folded in ber lap said many's export trade through a factor which on general

dagger. The woman fell down

lot ower there, mind I'm telling when she was a big lady she grounds would be detrimental to a country. Perhaps the

unconscious and

In this case. Mr. L. O. Nagel ye. I suppose they've all had was going to have a big red taken was not The remains of a Chinese, 19 to the hospital, where for some name

present when

his engine's like you in their Christ motor car like yon all to her advantage is not so great; at any rate the position is years of age, who was drowned on time she was in a critical con- the was called 8.5 reversed where Germany has to import raw material. The Saturday whilst bathing in the dition. Prisoner was subsequent Lordship that he entirely forgot practice run, the kids on either very old and my feet were sore one of mas stocking. When I rushes self. And she was going to jurors. He told His up Hathan Road, on its evening drive barself. And when I got recent opening of a branch at Manila by the United States removed to the Kowloon Mor-identified him.

Kowloon City Bay, have been ly arrested and the woman about it and was not reminded ends of the road never as much she would give me a ride from Bureau of Commerce may be taken as an indication that toary. Uncle Sam appreciates the bearings, and John Bull, while

Prisoner denied the offence half past eleven. A fine of $10 mile I've run as a boy after a

until be reached his office atas gee their ginger. Many'e the the ferry and pass all the rick- Another bathing fatality re-sad said he bad a witness, but was imposed and the defaulter fire engine hoping that the fire Between you and me, the recognising that Germany is entitled to a fair share of sulted in the death of a second he was not in Court. The case told that he must return to the would be a big one when I got sooner you wee vin's in the

shas very quickly, And- trade, must do his best to see that she does not get more Chinese, a coolie, who was bathing was accordingly adjourned to see Court in the afterncon and take there and no just merely a lum Convent the better for the pease than a fair share,

alight. But our Hongkong kids of our house in days to come.

the province from direct com-

BATHING FATAL

ITIES.

STABBING AFFRAY.

was not defended.

to join s

W&B

at Kam Tin besch. in the Now if this witness could be found. Territories.

eye,

ble chance with the others,

another time.

By and by when we got home ...

onyway.