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SDAY JUNE

DAY BY DAY.

HONGKONG RIFLEMEN.

INDIFFERENCE IS THE CURSE Need of an Association. OF MANY A COMMUNITY -

Yosforday's health return

PROPOSED PUBLIC MEETING.

a hunt for rooms to let, they

have the YMC.Ar to go to im.

mediately. The Institution bids shows three cases of enteric

fair to become one of the best faver, three of plague and two of

Pegagatik, is bound for Canada.

Tuesday,

HANG THEM I

Capital Punishment for Arimed Robbers.

BYGADABOUT."I

Our comment of

Is capital punishment the local Rifle Club, members of which of robbery under arms, which are THE NEW REMINGTON clubs in the Colony, with its small-pox. All ware Chinese.ging the formation of remedy for the more serious 0520

extensive social and recreational

would have an opportunity of increasing in this Colony to such The Y.M.CA. Student Hostel periodical shooting at one of the an alarming extent facilities. In this connection we

that the is celebrating its tenth anniver- Colony's ranges, has aroused a smaller. Chinese tradesmen and might recall that the old European sary on the 9th instant by s deal of interest amongst riflemen householder does not know but YMCA.. which bad rooms in dinner in the Hostel Building, in Hongkong. As one gentleman that any day he may find bimself Alexandra Building, was the Bridges Street.

put it to us, I know of several a victim? who are good shots, but who have That the increase in alarming nucleus for much profitable inter course amongst the young men the 8.8. President Jackson yes having no rifles, they are unable with violence, and assault with Dr. and Mrs, Urquhart left by had enough soldier pidgin to last is shown by the fact that during them for ever and ever, yet, 1922 no lean than 244 robberies hore, They had a good library, ferday. The doctor is only on a to take up shooting again. One intent to zob, were reported, as and there were mock parliament trip to Shanghai and will return ary debates of considerable in a few days, but Mrs. Urquhart in particular put on two separate against 117 the previous year. centuries during the interport rifle The difficulty of bringing the educational value and interest

[ practices,

Sahibi perpetrators to book is shown by both to participants and the

Mr FC Goodman, Hon. the number of convictions record- Two would-be suicides were Secretary of the Hongkong Rifle ed-40 out of 424 reported crimes. audience. The athletic, alde was admitted to the Kwong Wah League, informs us that theAre the punishments which the not neglected, despite the handi Hoepital yesterday. One is a League Committee proposes to law at present lays down suff caps which had then to be faced, lady who unsuccessfully took hold a public meeting as soon as cient to act as a deterrent? and among the successes claimed opium to kill herself. The other possible after the arrival hore of True, in the more violent crimes is a barber, who used a chopper the Interport trophy, the inten-beavy sentences are meted out, by the Association in the realms to kill himself but succeeded is tion being to re-start the Rifle At the Oriminal Sessions on t'uas- of rport was first place in the only injuring his head. [lawn tennis league. Those gan. tlemen still-in our midst who were connected with the old in stitution must feel gratified at its resuscitation in permanent and vigorous form, giving every pro mise of proving an influence for the good of those who are, more lees, strangers in a strange land.

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HONGKONG, 21st June, 1923.

THE Y. M. C. A.

...

Etna's Eruption.

or

Association, so that those join | day a man found guilty of taking. ing will be able to obtain better part in an armed gang robbery Because he was forced to pay President of the League (Mr. prisonment and fifteen strokes of facilities for rifle-shooting. The was sentenced to ten years' im- his fare, a Chinese passenger on D. G. M. Bernard) and several of the bat. At the previous See- one of the Kowloon motor buses appeared to have had a deep grud: the other heads of business firms sions, a sentence of seven years' go against the ticket collector. He in the Colony are interesting and twelve strokes was awarded. waited for the latter in the even Goodman says he will be pleased inents such as these would serve themselves in the matter. Mr. One would think that punish- ing at one of the teahouses at Yaumati and assaulted him. Ato receive the names of anyone as a warning to other evil-doers., Chinese sergeant in plain clothes, basis may be obtained as to the will stand in the dock and listen supporting the idea, so that some But is it so? A hardened criminal who was having tea at one of the number who would be willing to to such a sentence and not turn adjacent tables separated the

struggling men and took the join such an Association. Later a hair. And all the time orimes offender to the Folice Station. public meeting could be held for of this nature appear to be on tha The terrible results that case and imposed a fine of $10,I have no doubt," says Mr. for anything lees than murder will

To-day Mr. J. R. Wood board the the election of officers, com- increase.

mittee, etc.

The idea of capital punishment following the eruption of Mount

or fourteen days. To many the idea of a Y.M.C.A. the advance of a huge flowing

Goodman, "that the authorities no doubt seem revolting to most Etna make and reading. Before

would assist us in procuring a people. Capital punishment has | is unpopular. They are people mass of lava, inhabitants of the The Canadian Pacific Steam range, and such an Association been abolished, except in this one with a distorted vision, who towns in the danger zone are being ship Co. has just issued a batch would become responsible for all instance, in all civilised countries conjure up thoughts of Bible compelled to flee for safety. We of splendid art literatura designed Open Championships, the Beliling in the world, and even for taking can only faintly imagine the dis- to call attention to the services Shield Competition and all Intera human life it is being asked in reading, prayers at every con tress of these people, with the fear offered by the Empress boats and port arrangements. Shanghaihasa domo quartore if it is not time ceivable opportunity, and in gon of a fresh sruption ever in their the beauties of the route these splendidly organised Association, that the extreme penalty should eral an obligation for goody. minds. It is estimated that. Mount mammoth liners take from Hong open to all nationalities, as also be done away with. The idea of Etpe covers an area of over 450 kong to Vancouver. The most has Singapore. That at Penang demanding a life for anything goody behaviour. We are sorry square miles, and it is believed to charming brochure of the series is a Volunteer Association. less than murder is looked upon to find that there are a number possess as many as two hundred is one entitled "Empresses of the

as something belonging to the of such persons in this Colony. Graters Periodically, these erup. Pacific," which is most tastefully Shanghai's Example.

dark ages. If Hongkong asked Most of them are men who one is the worst that has been ex with Vancouver Island, resorts letter for publication

to award capital punishment to tions occur, though the present illustrated, whilst others deal We have received the following the Home Government for power openly state that they have "no perienced for many years. In in the Canadian Pacific Rockies, Sir, Your leaderette of Tues her armed robbere, no doubt the time for a Y.M.C.A which seriousness it compares with and the Canadian Pacific Route day, advocating the formation power-that-be in the far-away they imagine is an extension of that of 1169, when the town via Vancouver. We have seldom of a Rifle Club for those who have Motherland would throw up their of Catania was completely over-seen advertising matter more no time for Volunteering, will, hands in horror, and, combining whatever Church they belong to whelmed, and with that of five attractively produced.

am sure, be beartily supported it with thoughts of slavery and (but hardly ever onter) and is an hundred years later which caused

by many who are so placed the other little alleged blot upon institution where only mineral great abyss twelve miles long Probate was granted by Sir an Association on the same lines indeed an uncivilised orner of There seems to be no reason why our escutcheon, think we are Fators are provided. For the toptain. It is interesting to H. M. Supreme Court, Shanghai, on should not be a success in to open up in the side of the Skinner Turner, Chief Judge, at as the Shanghai Rifle Associat greater part these men, who have note that the greatest calamity on June 15th, in connection with this Colony and amply meet the drastic than exists at present is

the Empire, M

Nevertheless, something more taken up the self-imposed attitude known, due to volcanic eruption, the estate of Tam Kun, alias needs of those residents who are needed to deal with the wave of of scoffers, whatever be their was that causound your Henry Thomas, who died by bis debarred from joining the Rifle violent crime which has swept

Vesuvius two thousand years own band" on December.8 last, Clubs already in existence. A over us. actual age in years, have not yet ago, when it is estimated that while in the employ of the Chin short synopsis of its working may grown up, and cling still to the 200,000 people were killed, the ese Maritime Customs at Ockseu be of interest to your readers and who will stick at nothing are gen-

Sessions after Sessions criminals. period when they were weedy cities of Herculaneum and Lighthouse. Dr. G. H. Thomas, help in bringing about the format toncod by the Court to terms of Pompeii being buried under alias Tam Yau-ming, claimed to ion of a local Association. The youths who considered ́it manly volcanic dust and lava, All be the executor of the last following are the main condimprisonment of from five to ten

glasses of strong liquor, a later Vesuvius has been intermittently ember 5, and there was a writ is- stage of the time when they the last serious eruption being in he having entered a caveat on be active-it took 4 000 lives in 1671; sued against the Crown Advocate, made themselves sick with one 1906, when nine villages were half of the Crown, claiming the of their elders cigars. These destroyed and 200 people killed. goods of deceased bona vacantía. scoffers are usually what is In the East.

MOTOR MISHAPS

and even fifteen years for this Membership is open to all month the number of inmates in type of felony. Month after

Navy men, whether members of a desperado in Canton thinks foreign residents, Army and our prison increases, telep other Clubs or not he would like to try his luck-in Membership is divided into our Colony Be comes down different classes (four in Shanghai: here, terrorises, and "robs and known in the East as griffins," The East bas known its vol·

A, B, C, D, according to their perhaps wounds, our peaceful and they often, retain the char-canic disturbances, also. In 1883,

Capabilities, New members are citizens. He is caught and acteristics of that torm after there was a violent/eruption on

on joining, placed in B Class brought before the Court, And and afterwards re-classed by the the Hongkong tax payer bas the several years of residence in the island of Pulu Rakata, in the Malay archipelago, re

Committee pleasure of housing, feeding, their new environment. Their sulting in tidal waves and earth. Three Accidents Yesterday. Members provide their own clothing, and guarding that pest very talk, foolish as it is, savours quakes, the blowing away of

mammunition, which is sold by the to society for, maybe five, seven, Three motor accidents were re- Association at cost price.ten youra, as the case may be. of an attempt to prove that they half the island and the loss of over ported to the police yesterday. All competitions are under He should be hanged. Capital

|30,000 lives. It is recorded that have grown old and wise in the pieces of pumice stone were or by motor car No. 558 at the Prays arranged. Monthly competi- may be barbarous, but the crime A Chinese was knocked down Bisley Rules unless otherwise punishment for this form of crime ways of mankind. However, we ried as far as Singapore harbour East and removed to Hospital tions are held, winners in committed is barbarous, and trust there are not very many Sakura Mountain, in Japan, was same spot in the afternoon there the fourth win to entitle compe-When a man goes out to take part by this eruption. Then in 1914 with a fractured head. At the each class receiving a spoon, should be dealt with accordingly. such in the Colony, and that active, causing the loss of many was a repetition of the accident, titor to a Class Cup (no spoon) in a robbery, armed with a loaded they will be duly converted when lives, whilst three years ago the victim in this case beings and promotion to next highest revolver, he may not be going out once the European Y.M.CA.be Kalut, in Java, erupted, with the FW.D. coolie who also sustained class In A Class, the winners with the actual intention of doing comes alive institution in our result that a heavy death-roll was wounds in the head. The car is of a cup receive a handicap of murder, but it is fairly certain

recorded. When we read of oc No. 670. midst. In fact, we feel positive currences such as these, we begin At Pokfulum Road & small boy maximum of six points. If he thinks it is a question of his two points for each win up to that he will not stop at taking life that much mistrust (a good deal to think that Hongkong. is not was knocked down by a motor During the year, an annual liberty being at stake... One has of it sheer pretence) will be dia- such a bad place to live in, after

the Government Civil Hospital. Championship and International occurrences in the papers,

Team Shoot, and the Association Our Law in the main was meant being affiliated to the National to be administered in Britain, sod

persed by the outline of the all. We have no fears bere of car and was likewise removed to Rifle Meeting is held, also a only to read, the reports of such

volcanic disturbances;""; though scheme we were able to publish once or twice we bave been made yesterday, and there is no doubt to feel somewhat uncomfortable

theory bas, however, boon put

that directly the institution by earthquake tremors. The CANTON RICE DISPUTE. Ride Association of Great Britain, meant for Europeans We are

brows open its doors the facilities forward that Hongkong Harbour offered will be readily availed of is really the crater of Bance Government and Merchants by the young man of Hongkong active volcano. That may be ea, of and Kowloon.

course, but at the moment it does Still at Variance.

It will be observed that no harsh reservation is contemplat

od in favour of members, the

bo

not cause us say, undue anxiety,"

CHEAPER PASSAGES.

new Y.M.C.A being planned By Lloyd Triestine Boats, with ample provision for nop members as well. This is a very

an F.R.A. medal is presented for not in Britain and our criminala competition annually, and

are not European. The Chinese- and shoot in the various Club their countrymen who break them. Members are entitled to entor have their own laws to deal with Competitions bald at Bisley. The type of criminal referred z

Providing range sccommoda- to would get short shrift in hie The rice dispute in Canton bastion is available, an Association native land, at the hands of those not been finally settled, The on the above lines, adapted to who thoroughly understand him, wholesale merchants and the local conditions, would surely which we do not. If this outbreak Government have come to an receive the support of all interest of lawlessness is to be stopped ta ply of 300,000 patties in ten days the Hongkong Government. agrapment that the proposed suped in rifle shooting and also of this Colony sterner measures

than at present are rad is casewhere old adag

When in Rome applied, Or if the

Hés do not care to adopt them, perhaps handing the convicted men over

Youre etc.

SHANGHAL Hongkong, June 20th, 1923 Proposed Easma Club.

We understand that the Beems to their own people in Canton

Messrs. Dodwell and Co., Ltd., be reduced by one half, that Rezerous attitude for the pro agenta for the Lloyd Triestino third of the pace be paid in cash Line, advise us that they are in and the balance during July, with moters to adopt. We gather that receipt of a telegram from the the proceeds from the sale of Head Office in Trieste authorising public property as guarantee. actual residents of the Colony them to reduce the passage rates The retail sellers, however, who will be expected not to take to Italian corte immediately as number about three thousand; organisation has for some time, might prove affectiven andie advanta of such under

have refused to take part past had under consideration the two men were spot in Canton for hospitality, and to become mien- bors of the Ass ation in due course, The, facilities for "non- members will be of particular

in the distribution, with onestion of forming a Rifle Club participating in an ATI the result that the sale agree

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