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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, § 1922.

alsared our minds of that much, let us get back to the argumant about Sir Paul's gift

DÀY BỊ DẠY

OF

WHEN THE SAVAGES LOUISIANA WISH TO HAVE SOME FROIT THEY CUT DWN THE TREE AT THE BOTTOM AND

EUROPEAN ROBBED.

Struggles With a Pickpocket.

A regular struggla developed

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INTERESTING RENTS CASE.

Judgment in Recent Action. Mr. Justics Gompertz giva

We definitely assert that ox-. Serviceman in this Colony can afford to pay for social amenities, GATHER THE FRUIT, THAT IS from an attempt to rob Mir, T. 0. judgment in the Summary Cours whilst Servicemen cannot. There THE WAY OF A DESPOTIC GOY-Wilken, of the Ching Hail, this this morning in a recent rents morning. Whilst walking in caso, in which Leung Hia-san, 60 |is a big difference in their financi. {ERNMENT.-Montesquieu.

Queen's Road Central, Mr. Wilken Connaught Road Central, sued al status and there is undeniabla There will be no issue of the folt's tug at his coat, and found Him Sang-fat, 41 Des Voeux need of a better social atmosphere Hongkong Telegraph to-morrow that a Chinese had snatched a Road Central.

fountain pen from an upper waist Plaintiff was represented by Mr. E. Davidson, and Mr. M. E. There was pooket. for men in waiform, so as to (Good Friday). bridge, in some degree. the gap

The charity ball at the Prince's angle when the thief found Lo conducted the defence,

Judgment WE ALS given 隐迹 himself grabbed with the tell-talə between the civilian community Pasilion is to take place fountain pen still clutched in his follows: The plaintiff's claim is STRENGTH and the Service units. It was Monday, not on Tuesday as pre-out. The robber and the robbed to recover possession of so much

with the very best of motives that viously stated.

struggled into the centre of the of certain premises as are not street, the thief eventually occupied by the lessees, their we suggested preference being There were seven case of shown to the men of the Army plague notified yesterday (three breaking. away and running families and servants, under sec Here tion 15 of the Rants Ordinance, ba. Jan into the and Navy, and we feal sure that fatal) and one fatal case of small-up D'Aguilar Street.

waiting 1921.

By a notice in writing expiring our standpoint was correctly pax. All were Chinese.

arms of a Sergeant of the RGA The fountain-pen, it was stated, on the last day of the first Chiness appraised by ex-Servicemen is

The Colonial Secretary informs was surrendered to its owner month of the current year, the general. Our standpoint was us that quarantine has bee during the coures of the struggle. plaintiff has purported to termin- and still is "Give where the declared against Hongkong by

When the case was brought ate the defendant's tenancy of the Amoy, on account of plague.

into Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court premises. need is greatest."

It is common ground, and there this morning, his Worship was Owing to the Charity Ball at informed by the Inspector in is of course abundant evidence, the Prince's Pavilion falling on charge, that there was previous that the premises are a domes the same night, the Fancy Dress conviction against the prisoner.tic tenement under the Or Man continues his war on the Dioner Dansant (Carnival Night) Sentence of three months' hard dinance. It is argued for mosquito with unabated energy-advertised for Easter Monday at labour was accordingly passed. There has just been held in New the Repulse Bay Hotel has now Jersey & convention organised by been postponed until Wednesday, the State Mosquito Extermain-the 19th. instant.

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The Telegraph.

War on the "Skeeto."

...

STOLEN METAL.

Morning Post" Printer

Sentenced.

A printer of the South China Morning Post was brought before

the plaintiff that there is evidence of actual occupation only by twenty persons and that even if there were as many as forty ation Association, at which it

persons in occupation it is op- was announced that an invention

Stainer's "Cruciation" with

necessary to retain two houses had been perfected by which selections from "The Messiah'

for their accommodation, 23 A scientists tracking down the in-will be giveD at St. Peter's

much smaller space would be sect will hereafter escape the Church, West Point, on Good

sufficient. The defendant is not possibility of being stang whilst Friday night at 9.15 p.m. by a

entitled, says Mr. Davidson, to Carrying out their investigations. Choir of 50 Voices. All are cordi-Mr. R.E. Lindsell this morning defeat the Ordinance by spreading This invention is in the form of sally invited. No reserved seat being that he stole ten pounds is no doubt that these premises the charge preferred against him his fokis over two houses. There trap to catch the blood-thirsty

can be guaranteed after 9.10 p.m. "skeetoas" and is the result of

of linotype lead.

are 'a building" within section 2 -Adet.

According to the evidence of sub-section (b) of the Ordinance experiments made with the dif

the Company's watchman, small and again ferent secretions and excretions

that they aro Money and property to the lots of linotype lead had been used wholly OT in that collect on the skin of man, value of $61 were stolen from from time to time discovered for human habitation." I am giving rise to odours which at Chinese living at Cheng heaped in corners and other satisfied that they are used in tract the mosquita. The trap is

One of the Tseng yesterday. one in which rostertals having thieves was a man whore the these attractive odours are em-

ДП recognised to be ployed, and it is held that by

acquaintance. They searched There are, or should be, certain placing sach traps in infested bis pockets and, not satisfied with limits beyond which no respect-areas a line will be given as to the results, took away some Jable newspaper would think of the chief sources of breeding clothing and furniture.

HONGKONG, 13th April, 1922,

THE LIMIT.

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victim

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part

places by someone, with the part for the habitation of a sub- apparent intention of their being stantial number of persons, that muggled out when the opport is to say, well over twenty per pity offered. Just as the paper sons, who are necessary for the went to press this morning the carrying on of the basiness of the watchmen again found another of defendant.

these collections of land, and It is of course usual for Chinese and thus facilitate the exter- discussing public | mination going when

process. When we

A fire broke out on board the noted that it disappeared after a mercantile firms to provide hous- affairs. He had hoped firs: rame across this bit of

fendant, had gone opstairs tromessential staff, and, if the plain- that even the Chiwa Mail might news we thought it presaged a Woo Steamship Company's certain printer, who was the de- ing accommodation fo

means whereby mosquitoes would vessel Asia (the old Alacrity)just the printing room. So when the tiff's contention is given effect to, be trusted to keep within those after noon yesterday, as the ship

their attentions as leaving harbour for Swatow offices at seven this morning.ber of such firms would be bounds. But we have evidently and transfer

But it doesn't quite Some of the cargo was damaged. he searched the defendant who dispossessed. in

elsewhere. our

but luckily the flames did tot been too generous

It is not suggested that sub- read like that. If these traps thoughts. Last night, our con

are so wonderfully successful, reach the kerosene on board. The raised an objection and resisted.

and the defendant dropped of the Ordinance are applicable. temporary published a leading however, we should think they vessel is now in Kowloon Bay police sergeant was called in, section (1) and (2)(b) of section 2 parcel which, on being opened. In my opinion the defendant's article which was as offensively could be roade into quite a pro-

Was, found to contain lead. occupation is precisely what the There will be no Service in the Another parcel was recovered in Ordinance was intended to protect. insulting to journalists as it must stable commercial venture, for installation in private house.

Mission Churcb on the same way.

Whatever the proper construc- have been paureating to the holds. But we fes: the "skeeto" Rhenish

Good Friday afternoon, but on

In reply to the Magistrate, tion of section 15 may be the general public. Just because the has still got man guessing.

Good Friday evening at 7.30 p. defendant said he had been in the section does not, I think, apply Telegraph and others have seen Chinese Students' Crusade. Lantern Lecture will be given Company's employ for twenty bare. This lessee is in fact in 6: to express the hope that

The World's Christian Students by the Registrar of the Univer-

trouble till now.

servants of the whole domastic Servicemen in this Colony will Federation is holding its eleventh sity of Hongkong on the Story of Years and had never been in occupation by himself and his Mr. B. Wylie, acting General tenement, although it is not wholly benefit by Sir Paul Chater's annual convention at Peking, and Good Friday, to which the public

undergoing survey.

lex-Servicemen do not stand sol number of Chinese bodies, includ./Sunday at 4 p.m. a Sermon will Morning Post, Lid, asked bis not propose to go into the plea of generous gift of $50.000 and that the occasion has been seized by a/are rordially invited. Oo Easter Manager of the South Chinajased for buman habitation. I do

jeffusion.

newspaper

that it has made a mistake, as in later manifesto it declares that

TROUBLE

March 19th..

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be preached in the Rhenish Mis Worship to consider, in his ing at least one women's society,sion (Church by the Rev. Dr. T-decision, the seriousness of the necessary to do so.

res judicata as it becomes un- much in need of it, the China for an attack upon Christianity W. Pearce. LL.D. on "Shall I offence rather than the value of impression is that the plas is

rise from the dead?"Affet." Mail, in posing as the champion The objectors criticise religion as

the lead. For the past two years, inapplicable. he said, the Compaby had con- There must be judgment for of men in civilian life who did obstacle to science and pro- gress, and the women's society

The Prince's Hongkong visit tinually los: type, and last year the defendan: with costs. their bit in the period 1914-18.even asserts that it has stood in bas delivered itself of a prize the way of the emancipation of alm and Associated Exhibitors the balance sheet of the Company effort of unforgivable vituper. their sex. Among further organ- big feature attraction What showed & shortage of 1,000 pounds had bean isations that bave joined this Women Will Do" continue to of metal. Notices

in the premises ation. It is a pity that a generous strange crusade are the Chinese delight large audiences at the posted up

Presenting offering & rewardt of $100

ON CHEONGSHING. gift should have been made the Paychological Society, the Chao Coronet Theatre.

information. leading the discovery of the Three Seamer Sentenced. subject of so unpalatable an Yang University of Peking, Peo. Anna Q. Nilsson as a beautiful f ting University, and the Shasi young adventuress who poses as to

A fireman named Li Ying, an Society for the Study of Science, a society belle in a daring attempt culprits. Such thefte were very

a newspaper office, oiler pamed Lai Liu and Ho Having referred to the roar while the Chen Pro is prominent to win a fortane, "What Women serious in

when Tsang, & seaman, were again ing of barnalistic wild beasts" among the vernacular organs that Will Do" is a picture abounding particularly so at night, (we didn't think we were quite so have given publicity to the agita in exciting incidant. A midnight Linotype lead was so much used. brought before Comdr. Beckwith, In reply to a question, by the at the Marine Court this morning, tion. It is consoling to note that dive into New York Harbour, & bad as that) the writer of the Mul's the Peking Express (the English-flying trapeze stunt in a cabaret Magistrate, Mr. Wylie said that in connection with causing trou [diatribe proceeds: It is a re-language organ recently started a bogus spirtualistic seance, and the defendant was a good printer ble aboard the Cheongshing on markable fact that all these for Chinese students) deprecatessensational borse race each and he was sorry to lose bim.

In imposing sentence of six The case first came before the this exhibition of bostility; and adds its thrill to a picture every- articles telling Sir

Students where bearing the imprint of weeks' hard labour on the defen Court on March 20th, when it Non-Christian the

that the charges dant, the Magistrate jocularly appeared Paul not to let the ex-Service Federation, appears to recognise greatness,

remarked that, on the other hand, originated from an attempt made mon have any of this money

the Superintendent of the Gaol by the Union men concerned to are written by men who did the movement is in nowise anti- malcy"), others contend that they would be very glad to take him, Dust the Northern men from the dome all in the Big War." (fte foreign or anti-capitalist, albeit contribute vigour and picturesque as they ran a printing office vessel. In an altercation, which ensued, the Chief Officer, Mr. Three the Federation reaffirms its anti ness to the vocabulary. There there. ours.)

Kendall, and the northern quar- religious stand. Whether this are certain features of popular

termaster, Cheung Teot Hang, sentences Further on. these means that its members are American diction, however, that

were assaulted. writers are described as "tripe opposed to Christianity or to any have little to recommend them,

The case was adjourned sine die hounds." There

have a form of religion does nos clearly as is evidently recognised by the

The following teams will and as the vessel is now in port gratuitous and absolutely unjasti. appear. In regard to Christianity, Chicago Women's Club, which is

the objectors have concrete calling upon its members to represent the H.K.C.C. in two again, the proceedings fed insult, followed by altogether evidence that science and subscribe to the following solemn whole day matches at Easter, continued this morning.

commencing 10.30... each day, The three defendants were- uncalled for slangy abuse. Now, status of women have progress pledge:

That I will not dishonour my Saturday and Monday, on Club charged with doing grievous if our contemporary really wishes in Christian countries as they

have in no other lands, except country's speech by leaving off ground:-EK.C.C.. Garrison. bodily harm to Cheung Teoi-hung to raise this issue of newspaper-perhaps in Japan, which has the last syllables of words. Saturday, 15th April T. E. and with beating him and using That I will say & good Pearce (Capt.), L. J. Davies, violence with intent to hinder or Imen in this Colony who w acquired these advantages from

American "yes" or "oo" instead Lt. Franks, R. N. Mid. Hayter, prevent him carrying ont bis service during the war, to be it. Christian countries. As Dr. J. B. of the Chairman

of an Indian grant "umbum R. N., H. Owen Hughes, E. Goccupatios. and "nup um

or a foreiga Lammert, L. D. McNicoll, E. J. All three men pleaded guilty.. "ya" or "yep" or "nope." R. Mitchell, D. B. Peat, Lt In passing sentence, Comdr. That I will improve American Stewart, R. N., R. E. A. Webster. Beckwith, said the assault-hap speech by enunciating distinct- H.K.C.C.. United Services,pened at a time when there was ly and by speaking pleasantly Monday, April 17th-1.E. Pearce considerable excitement amongst (Capt), L. J. Davies, F. H. the Cantonese crews who had and sincerely.

That I will try to make my Farthing, H. Owen Hughes, come down from Ceaton to re- country's language beautiful for E. G. Lammert F. C. Miller, join their ships Lad" was of a the many boys and girls of D. B. Pest, "G. R. Sayer, E. B. serious nature, but since, it foreign nations who come here Reed. F. J. De Rome, R. E. A.happened there had been no

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China boil has on its staff one denounce us have any construc- ex-Serviceman; the Daily Creative programme for the good of

humanity, they may be sur has two; the South China Morning prised, upon comparing it with Post hae the e, as als bas the our own, to find bow nearly we Hongkong Telegraph. The other are agreed. If they are destruc members of local newspaper stafere merely, the world will soon learn that it may look to them were either medically unfit or for no benefit, and we can afford over-age. The Mall's writer must to ignore their attacks. have known these facts, et, in Pruning the Language. order to belittle straightfor Opinions differ as to the effect ward arguments be deliberately of Americanisms upon the Anglo- suggests slacking" on the part Saxon tongue. While the purists observed that, with & of others. That is low-down and stand aghast at some of these variation, the pledge would not morrow evening at 5.45 p.m.-

(notably President Harding's "nor be unsuited to some Britishers. Adul. unpardonably mean, . Having

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further trouble between Northern

craws and the Cantonese, due to That I will learn to articulate

Members of correctly ane word a day for

the Kowloon the action taken by the Seamen's Bowling Green Club are remind-Union in this matter. He would one year.

which it may beed of the annual general meeting take the circumstances into con

little to be beld in the Club House to-sideration.

Upon

Sentence of two months bard [labour was passed in ench" oase,