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SINGAPORE ROBBER GANG ROUNDED UP.

Three Hours' Desperate Battle With Police. ¡Our Own Corrispondeat.)

Singapore, Nov. 17.

Mrs. Cameron Sued.

A Cuinese ause of anteric farer

Mr. J. de Castro, of the Manila! Mansions Hotel, sued Mra The rent control law in Singa was notified yesterday.

Cameron, of the Carlton Hotel, pore is dafinitely to be dons away

In the Summary Court, before Mr. The Shanghai cricket team laft Justice Gompertz this morning.

A gang of armed rubbers who with at the end of this year, by the Empress of Canada to-day-for $115.79, for services render. d had been concerned in recent when, the Straits Government

and goods supplied. The claim outrages was surprised whilst, has declared, the Rent Restric- Amongst the passengers who was made up as follows:-Three feeding in a saw-mill's coolie lines. tion Ordinance will

The robbers immediately fired not baleft by the Empress of Canada) men at $2 a day for 21ý đayn, $15;

were Commander T. B. Drew, one man at $1, $250; plaintiff's on the police, and a three hours' renewed. It has been contended 0.B.E, Mr. C. S. Gabbay and Mr. services, at 85 a day for 24 fight followed before their sur- by the landed interests in the H. F. Payne.

days, $12.50: provisions supplied, render.

The leader of the gang. * $85.79. southern Colony that conditions) are again nearly normal Com A Sale of Work will be held at Plaintiff was represented by Cantonese, who had recently Union Church on Wednesday Mr. H. C. Macnamara and M. murdered datective, was shot patent observers in the StraitsDecember 6th at 3 a'clock. Pro-C. A. S. Russ conducted the dead whilst attempting to escape. deny this. and the poorer-class seeds in aid of the New Pulpit defence.

Four of his followers were wounded. members of the different com-Fund. Ten will be served free- Mr. Macnamara explained that Three detectives were wounded munities in Singapore have sent,

this was a case between two hotel in the fight one requiring the am in petitions to the Government

keepers. His client, fr. J. de patation of a leg. Our Picture Page to-morrow Castro, kept a hotel at No. 38, begging for a further extension) will contain groups of the Houg-Queen's Road

Twenty-five arrests were made. Central-the of protection, but the authorities koog and the Shanghai cricket| Manita Mansions Hotel. Oa Over a hundred Sikh- and Malay have proved adamant. We teams, the Hongkong and the Sept. 11th, for some reason or police joined in the siege, com-

Manila interport golf teams, and other (into which it

manded by European Inspectors. sincerely trust that when the photo taken at the wedding of necessary to enter), the boys The Sikhs were restrained with question arises in the middle of Mr. F. W. Firman and Miss employed by Mrs. Cameron in the dificulty from storming the sback next year as to whether rent Leggett: together with portraits Carlton Hotel dining room went in which the robbers had taken up

of some of the leading personal-co restriction is still required in ities in the Homa elections

laft. strike they

Mrs. Cameron found herself in a diffi- Hoogkong, the local Government

culty and through the assistance will not be tempted to follow the

of an Indian gentleman, who bad very bad example of the Straits

been working for Mrs. Cameros, authorities in leaving the un- Fortunate tenants to their fate. If conditions require an extension

Judge Does Not Like of protection, there should be no

Shanghai, November 17.-Reu- "Doubles."

ter's corresponden: at Chita ro- hesitation ic renewing the

ports that the assembly has passed Ordinance. One matter in this solicitor in the Summary Court,

"Double-one-six-foor," said

s resolution abolishing the Far The were.

weat Frangement only

Eastern Republic, and banding CHRISTIANSEN-On Nov-onection which esanot be lost this morning, giving the number for a ember 15th. at the Kang Yee sight of is the exemption of of case in which he was interested. Mr. Macnamara. It began on

abort time, explained over to Moscow the control of the whole territory, which will form Hospital, Canton, Boile Chris newly-built property. While the I don't know why you say, Sept. 11th, and went on until the part of Soviet Russia.-Beuter. tiansen, dearly beloved busband of present cost of building is ua-Gompertz rebuked him: "it is not rather abruptly termiusted this 'double-one *** Mr. Justice 13th. On the 13th, Mrs. Cameron Alice Christiansen, aged 49 years. Shanghai papeis please copy.

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BOWES-SMITH. On 17th- iast. at 128 The Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith, a daughter.

DEATH.

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 17th Nov., 1922

was not

their stand.

FAR EASTERN

NOT A TELEPHONE she got into communication with REPUBLIC ABOLISHED.

telephone number."

plaintiff, Mr. de Castro, who did} what be conld to help her out of her difficulty by supplying boys and food in the dining room. Particulars had been furnished to Mrs. Cameron. showing what these services

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doubtedly much bigher than it was before the war, we feel sure that the total exemption which has been granted can be made a SIR EDWARD STUBBS. doubt, made some other arrange

FAREWELL.

Good-bye To Shanghai Cricketers,

arrangement with Mr. de Castro Plaintiff had to withdraw bis ser. vants. and Mrs. Cameron, no

ments. Plaintiff had done certain means of extracting more than a

work for Mrs. Dameron "and legitimate profit from tenants

supplied certain provisions who, owing to the continued

Due Here To-morrow. Repeatedly demands had been!

When the Empress of Canada Black

made for payment, but Mrs. of accommodation, Are

are informed by the Cameron had declined to pay. We

left the Kowloon Wharf at about two o'clock this afternoon, there THE QUESTION OF RENTS. obliged to occupy new bouses Calenist Secretary that. His Ex-

No rates were fixed, said Mr. was and flate at very high rents.colfency the Governor, Sir R. E.

demonstrative farewell Siubhs, is expected to arrive in

Macnamara. replying to the given to the Shanghai Inter- Without wishing to suggest any the Colony by Peninsular and

Judge. He submitted that the One of the problems that everything which raight discourage Oriental .s. Kashgar to introw, the circumstances. With regard Company's house flag sad im. port cricketers. At the main- charges were reasonable under

mast bead WES growing city bas to face sooner Fuilding enterprise, we question and to land at Blake Pier at 10.30 to the provisions, plaintif charged mediately blow it the flag of the flying the or later, especially if it whether this policy of non-inter-and not morning costs will be what was charged him by the Shanghai Club, then the Hong BC, on that day. Ordinary dress important seat, with a coaference in regard to new property wors,

compradore, and with regard to kong flag won during the Inter- stant growth of the population, is has been quite wise. We leave

Ister intimation from the the services, considering it was port and the flag of the K.C.C. the matter of adequate housing this matter for the consideration |

an emergency. Mr. Macnamara The boat drew away from the Colonial Secretary states that the accommodation, at reasonable of these best

contended that the rates arrival of His Excellency is put

were wharf to the accompaniment of able to judge forward by half an hour, and he is reasonable. The whole thing was rounds of cheering, singing and rects. It is usually the case that whether the restriction law as it expected to land at Bisks Pier at not deas for profit: it was done the firing of crackers. the provision of cew buildingscow stands is the best that cas 10 a.. to-morrow instead of 10.30 to help Mrs. Cameron out of al lags far behind the population's be devised. It might be possible! requiremente, so that the evils of that a limit of profit-say eight | overcrowding follow, with the to ten per cent. an outlay-cou'd menscs of a higher death-rate in be introduced without causing the offing. Landlords, too, are capitalists to light shy of under-

4.10.

BOXING.

difficulty.

Plaintiff -gave evidence in support of this statement and waE then cross-examined by Russ.

Mr. Russ:-I put it to Fou that į you are a rival botel-keeper? Shet has already brought o action

CRICKET.

but human, and whilst some taking new building cperations. Key and Morgan to Meet for slander against you?-Yes the match commencing at 2.15

property owners are known to

exercise considerable restraint

to

Again.

to

The K.C.C. will be at home to. the Infantry to-morrow, His Honour-Apparently no p.m. The Kowloon team will be: writ was issued.

-B. D. Evans, C. 1. Stapleton, C. and be content with a reasonable The Old Story.

We hear that there is every Mr. Macnamara said there was Dance, Capt. E. J. Spinks, R. return on their capital, the Lawlessness continues

another prospect of

boxing a debene esse examination before Pestonji, G. A. V. Hall, H. H. majority are usually out for as obstruct progress in China, C. P. O. Morgan and Battling

contest being fixed up between the Registrar.

Benson, R. E. Lindsell, A. 0. much profit as they can obtain. Hankow, comprised of many of the Boxing Association. The for plaintiff telling people that

much so that & mass meeting at

Mr Russ explained that in that Brawo, L.J. Blackburn and S. Jex. Key, this time under the auspices action Mrs. Cameron claimed When lack of accommodation nationalities, has been forced to match will probably take place the Carlton Hotel had been burut reaches a stage where most express its feelings in very plain

down and it was no tenants have to pay whatever is language and to intimate that it on December 1st or 2nd.

use going Filipino waiter was quite reason. demanded of them in order to responsible for failure to protect that he does not object to giving the case was withdrawn by Mrs. P.75 month,

The contest is to be holds the Central Government weigh: fight, although Ker states

light-there.

able. In Manila, he mentioned. have & roof over their heads. foreign lives and property. But his opponent one or two pounds Cameron's solicitors,

Mr. Macnamara retorted that 40 ordinary policeman received landlords are able to turn the it is pot alone the foreigners who

Messre. over the limit.

Mrs. Cameron, giving evidence, screw, unless checked by au- well what the terrorism of robbers suer: the Chinese know all too

| Johnson, Stokes and Master, the said Mr. Muttlah agree/l thorits, until the question of and troops means. When trouble

terms being that Mrs. Cameron supply food at $2

per head paid the tazed costs, which had per day, the wame as she had been meeting the rent becomes

albreaks out in Kwangtung, the of engagements, news of his not been paid to this day.

paying the compradore. Witness Chinese flock to this colony in prowess as a lightweight having nightmare to most wage earners their thousande: and the same reached thus far. It is stated you were at the Carlton Hotel did stated by Mr. Muttish had meals Mr. Russ (to plaintiff)-When denied that as many guests as Hoogkong and Singapore hare development on a lesser scale is that there is only one Chinese you cut up one of the boys' costs? in the Hotel. She did not think for some years bad what one recorded at Amoy by our corres boxer in Australia and that he is No.

there were more than seven people might term almost parallel legisla-ara abutting their doors and with younger and more skilled

pondent there. Native bankers now too old to compete seriously Did you break open the ice-tox?tioned an incident when plaintif at any meal. Mrs. Cameron men- tion. Several years ago, when moving to the foreign settlement, pugilists, whereas Key, who has

No. the short post-war trade boam thus to avoid interference by the never yet suffered defeat by of the Hotel and shout at Mrs. Ee presented his bill Mr. de Castro stood in the doorway and said the Did you stand at the entrance guests should not come in. When milita-ists who force the banks knock-out and lost practically Do Cameron No. sttracted new busines people to these two Colonies, there arose money and thus aud materially to big "draw" there. Negotiations to the police to have you sent and Mrs. Cameron telephoned for

to advance them large sums of fighte, would be sure to become a

shook him fist in her face. Mr. Did Bhe family telephone Mattiab interfered on her behalf an acute shortage of accommoda.the economic crisis from which are, we learn, now in progre out 7--I do not know saything the police. Mrs. Cameron con- tion both as regards dwelling the people are suffering. With with the object of Key

conditions as they are, it is percoing south. .The bouses and commercial offices. fectly clear that the Peking Gov-boxer is also much in demand Chinese

tended that Mr. de Castro and Mr. Russ said the defence was Mr. Muttiah were trying to get. Landlords were, in the main, not ernment has no shadow of control in the Straits, but owing to the that there was never any agree her dining room for their own slow to seize the golden opport over the country at large, and generosity of several local Chi-meat. Until plaintiff arrived in the Hotel, Mrs. Cameron did not there appears little prospect of bese he is able to remain here a unity of putting up their rents,

His Honour thought the terms until truly exorbitant demands respect in the best fature. Al- training with the object of getting Cameron never made any agree matters being improved in this little longer and continue his know he was coming, and never

expected him to

Mrs. of the agreement were either not were made, and the Governmost the only places of safety in another fight fixed up. We are ment for plaintiff to supply provi-stood on either side. With regard sufficiently explained or misunder- Chios to-day are the foreign glad to learn, for the sake of Hong-

about that.

The

:

come.

purpose.

found in favour of plaintiff. With

ments, in response to an urgent settlements; and yet we hear the kong's reputation as a sportine sions at all Daring, the time to the provisions, his Honour public appeal, supported by the demand so freely expressed, by centre, that he is not likely to be plaintiff was at the Hotel he was Press, stepped in with control people who do not know the facts, kept here indefinitely kicking his most insolent to Mrs. Cameron regard to servans, plaintiff claim- measures designed to protect the that these settlements should all heels whilst waiting for au and to the guests, and after two ed for three men at $2 and one at people from the rapacity of revert to China. That, in view of gagement. to be fixed up. That days she had to get rid of him. a day. Mis, Cameron before

what is occurring, would be to would not have been fair to a

charges

the strike bad three Chinese Were grossly certain property owners. In one court disaster-and the thinking young lad who is, none too flush excessive.

servants and his Honour would Mr. Christian Muftiab, very important point Hongkong's section of the Chinese must realise with money, any box. The Box Indias gentleman formerly em days, two at $2 each and one at allow plaintif three men for 24 frent restriction measures are of that fact full well.

ing Association is apparently

$1, which would be $12.50. Mrs. greater benefit to the public, Boxing Matters.

disposed now that he has chal-played by Mrs. Cameron

Cameron had the services of 'Mr. lenged Morgan to another bout look after the dining We hear that boxing promoters and the latter has accepted to that during the time in question disallow the 65 for br. de Castro's insamuch as there is no limit to

effect Muttiah, and tis Honour would gave evidence to the the class of property protected, induca Battling Key to take a in Australia are endeavouring to

quarantee him a fixture in the In Singapore houses at a pre-war trip to the Antipodes for a series

near future.

an

to TUOID,

71 meals altogether were supplied. Bervices. Fisintiff was also He thought #2 a day for «sillowed ousts.