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HANDWRITING EXPERT "GIVES EVIDENCE.

MINOR INTERPORT GAME An interesting game has been arranged on Chinese New Year TO-DAY'S PROČKE DINOR,

Day (5th Feb) when Shameen Sports Chib "Soccer The case in which the Tai Wo will be entertained by the Hong side whether or not their ex- periment sight rear ago, of St. Stephen's Girls' College are Company is suing the Bank of kong Football Club, on the Club

haldist concert to-morrow at East Asia for $73,665 said to have ground, kick-off at 8 pm closing all except purely Chinese 8 pm when Lady Brunyats will been drawn out of the Bank by The Canton XI can field a good premises, has been a failure. distribute the University cacti-persons unknown by means of side, including J. Rodger, Perhaps fortunately for Hongficates and caps won by students two forged cheques, again oc Duncan, Reid and other formes

cupied the attention of Sir William Hongkong players, and althoughts Long, there has bean no such

Bees Davies and a special jury the Club will be weakened an [experimenting, locally, with that A 13-year-old giri was knook-to-day.

account of four of their regular ed down and injured in Queen's

The following evidence was playars taking part in the In- particular matter. However, Road West, yesterday, by a car

Tarpart game in Shanghal, they would point to another direction owned by UK of No. 24 Bonbam given yesterday afternoon ----

The No, cashier of the Bank of can turn out capable reserves and in which our Government here Road. The victim was taken to East Asia gare evidence and, cross-a close game shoult result The has acted against legalised hospital,

examined by Mr. Jenkin, said following ... will represent: the vice" and made matters possibly

application form for a new cheque Club R. Hutchison W. Gerrard. From the Standard Oil Com-book was in each book when issued. J. McCubbin; G. Wation; AB. worse than they were previously,

One could get the form from an old Forsyth (Capt.) J. W. P Ma- pany we have received, half a We refer to the closing in this dozen artistic Chinese calendars cheque book and from no other Phall: C. H. Bell, H. MaTavish Colony of all opium divans. We A further batch reaches us ad-source. The one on which Lan H. G. Howard, J. McBride, and have it on the authority of those vertising Cadbury's cocoa and Chi-yuen made application must G. Angus. Reserves R. B. Bell

have come from book, but he and H. T. Buxton. who should know, that the result chocolate.

could not say how be got the has been the opening of secret

form.

A plot of Crown land. 38,500

Mr. Jenkin: I suggest to you. square feet in extent, was sold by auction yesterday afternoon. The that the only person who could get upset price was $29,875, and the hold of that form would be some lot was knocked down to a Chin-one connected with the bank? esa syndicate for $40,000.

Witness: The bank only sends out application forms with cheque books.

MUSTARD & Co.opium dens in greater number than the former licensed places, in some cases by persons who received compensation for losing their previously legal business. The authorities, of course, but) yielded to outside pressuresulting from an attempt to slight nevertheless it brings us back to from a moving tramcar, a Chinese our opening query, and the has been taken to the Govern-to get a book to abstract it from? ment Civil Hospital suffering clandestine evil we have just re from a contusion on the head. ferred to supplies & sufficient

17, Connwight stead Central

Tel 1186 Central

The Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 29th Jan, 1924.

ASPECTS OF VICE.

answer.

Objectionable Signs.

Rendered senseless in a fall re-

An aged Chinese, living at No. 20 Upper Station Street, was fatally injured in a fall yesterday down the staircase. He was a Whilst we are all against any ready daad when examined by interference with legitimate sd-the doctor at the Tung Wah vertising methods, we do think Hospital. the time has arrived when some thing should be done to prevent

"SALEN". PIRACY.

MESS-BOY RELEASED. Owing to the absence of srid- ence to prove his connection with Mr. Jenkin: Further, it would be the pirata gang which looted the impossible for anyone in the bank Swedish steamer Salon last week on the run from Canton, the mass- Witness: It would be impossible police on the arrival of the steamer boy detained by the Hongkong Mr. Jenkin: It would be here yesterday, has been released. hundred times more impossible for f anyone outside the bank to get one?

Witness: A client might have two cheque books.

Witness: Yes.

possible for even a foreigner with

Mr. Jenkin: You have two his naked eye to see the differ ante between. It and the different kinds of cheque, the old form and the new. If you had genuine one, but witness said be taken the trouble to look as the could not see any difference. Whether is it better to have so

register you would have seen that HANDWRITING EXPERT'S

EVIDENCE → open enemy or a skulking for;

The forthcoming wedding is the form of the application should a known danger or a hidden the business part of the city being announced of Mr. John Bar-have come from an old chaque menace? The majority of ob-disfigured by yards of calico on tholomew, chartered accountant, took, whereas it came from a new

which notices are printed, mostly of Messrs. Holyoak, Masey & Co., one? servers can find only one answer in red ink, directing attention to Ltd., residing at No. 192, the to that query: and they are the special bargain sales. Of late. Peak, to Miss Dorothy Mary persons who, by their advocacy there has been quite an epidemio Logan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

of this kind of thing. with the W. Logan, No. 250, the Peak. of procedure which seems unresult that our streets are be- moral, lay themselves open to a ginning to look like enlarged

The usual Weekly Meeting charge of inconsistency, or worse. backyards with the week's wash-

of Hongkong Lodge of the A problem which har been ing hung out to dry. Een some

Theosophical Society will be of our newest buildings are being held on Wednesday, January brought to the fore within recent made to look hideous in this way. years is the control, and, if possThere is on the Colony's Statute 30th, at 5.45 p.m. at the Lodge, la

known Queen's Rd. Central. Subject: ible, the gradual eradication, of Book an

Theosophy and Man.All are as the Advertisements Regula- what has come to be knowɑtion Ordinance, which is designed Welcome. Ader.

enactment

A chit coolie spoke of delivering cheque book to the Tai Wo firm in Eastern Street on Oct. 9th, 1922. The receipt produced be brought back from the fir

Mr. E. R. Dovey, Government Analyst, next gave evidence, and admitted that he was an expert in handwriting and had given evidence before on the subject. He had examined most carefully the "forged "; and

genuine cheques and he was of opinion that all bore the signatures of Lang Be Yuen, and were in his hand."- TO-DAY'S EVIDENCE.

writing. The writing on the body morning, the chit coalie, whatceptions, was also the same When the Court opened this of the cheques, with one or two tork the cheque book from the When e first examined the fro Bank to the Tai Wo firm's suspected cheques, he notices premises, was crocexamined by two or three things which Mr. Jenkin, appearing for plain-first wight made him think tiff. The coolie maintained that they were forgeries. There We touch on this subject because advertisements in such a manner The final in the United Ser he remembered all that happened were several places where the it is closely connected with the

as to affect injuriously the vices Football League, between on the day in question, October writing had obviously been touch- amenities of any public place or the East Surreys and H.M.S. 19th, 1922, and that he did take ed up. question of how far legislation disfigure the natural beauty of a Durban, is to take place at 4 p.m. the cheque book to the pre- Mr. Dovey them showed the can or cannot suppress vice, and landscape or of the waters of the on the Sookunpoo ground to-mises of the Tai Wo firm jurymen the points bf touching because it bas of late been Colony or of the clouds or sky." morrow. H.E. the General Officer

Mr. Li Tse Fong, Manager of up in the writing. Counsel and Under that Ordinance, all mantar Commanding is to present the the Bank, produced a book, kept jurymen crowding round him. Mr. greatly agitating a neighbouring of restrictions are placed on the shield and medals to the winners by the head coolie, showing a Jenkin, who was invited by His Crown Colony and seaport of the display of placards,etc., whilst and medals to the runners-up-

record of the sending out of Lordship to join in also, remarked East. The Singapore papers dur- the sails of sampans are not per-

chaque books by coolies. This There is such a scrum there ing the past few months have mitted to be utilised for advertis-

Three men who appeared before showed that the previous witness just now." ing purposes, nor are electric! given more than usual publicity flashing signs allowed. To our Mr. J. R. Wood. at the Police did go with the cheque book on to the matter, and we see in way of thinking, the hanging out Court this morning were remand-October 19th, 1922. · Malaya, in process "of evolution, of these calico signs is far more ed after being charged with pos

universally by its initials, V.D. to prevent the exhibition... "of |

Interport

"Soccer."

AN INCIDENT.

Proceeding, Mr. Dovey said that the dissimilarities first led him to think the signatures

objectionable than many of the session of a revolver which was

Mr. Jenkin said that he bad were forgeries, but later he so to speak, the struggle of science other methods upon which the found by a police officer concealed not suggested that the coolie came to the conclusion that against ethics, with neither side Government frowns. They most under the mat of the bed on did not leave the Bank, but the alterations were done inten. The that he had not gone to the tionsly in order to make lacking champions of their parti- certainly "affect injuriously the which the three slept.

the writing appear dissimilar. There were two other points cular point of view. Not long amenities of public places, and seizure of the arms and the Tai Wo firm

they give a cheap and nasty arrest of the defendants occurred

Mr. Potter: But we are show why be first thought the signa- ago, a Straits committee drew appearance to the business centre on Saturday evening, subsequent

to the receipt of information bying you that the Bank is acting tures were forgeries, ons being up a report following what wel of the Colony.

fairly.

that the capital ."5", on one the police of the district. presume

Mr. Jonkin I have made no suspected cheque was not linked Was an exhaustive

allegations about the Bank.

up with its following letter. Why study of all aspects of V.D., and

In a few days' time, Hong- Lam Yang, an estate, agent,

Mr. Potter-You have suggest-he was satisfied that all the its appalling prevalence among konge team of Interport foot-living at No. 9, Wyndham Street, ed that the application form for signatures were by Lan Se You the community. The committee's ballers will sail for Shanghai, has described to the police an the cheque book might have been was because the plaintli zez in a continuous line without main recommendation appears to where they are to engage in attack made on bim by stolen

contests with Shanghai and Han-man with the object of, ex- have been acquiescence in an old kow under the new rules which torting money from him yester

Mr. Jenkin:--Well, that is not raising his pen, and for a man to forge such a signature wILE BT- contention that what is known have been drawn up in connection day. He grappled with his as against the Bank.

ceedingly hard. It meant that he Mr. Potter-It is getting pretty had to go right to the finish once as the oldest profession in the with these "Soccer," competitions. sailant, and in the struggle a

For the first time, too, there will dagger dropped to the ground. (near it.

he had begun, and in the minor world-will-always-find-its-gruð- | be an actual trophy at stake, and He succeeded in using a police His Lordship-It might have characteristics the writings were patos, and that it were better to we may depend upon it that there whistle, and his assailant was bean possible for an employee to similar. A forger was siİNSTE have regulation of such matters will be keen rivalry for the scared off, but left his coat be have stolen the application form. Ekely to study the promin than continue a constant but possession of the new cap. Hong-hind in his intended victim's: The incident then closed. characteristics and not the miner

kong believes it has a good chance hands.: unsuccessful warfare, the direct of winning that trophy.

Witness went on to describe Jones, and it was not possible for At any

the Bank's procedure of issu-a forger to write a name without outcome of which has been to rate. that is the spirit in which

Seventeen Chinese are on trial ing cheque books, and stated raising his pen once from the encourage clandestine vice. The the team will go North. Those

who are capable to express at Shanghai for assault on German that all the unissued cheque paper and retain in that re-introduction of a long-abolish-sound opinion say that the com-officers of the steamer Paul Re-books now in the Bank had been the minor characterist ed law, the Contagious Diseases bination chosen is as well. a gendanz, in the course of which examined and no application was of opinion that the suspe Ordinance, is suggested, one of balanced side has Hongkang one man was mortally shot. The forms were missing When signatures were genuine. the advocates being a well-known has put into the field for following statement has been man applied in person to open a average length of Eau Se Y

many a long year. In the prac made by the prosecution; Preview account, be filled in no sp-signature was 52 millin medical man, with many years tice games, the team has cartsin-ous to arriving at Hongkong, plication form for a cheque book, one forged one was.53,

general dimensions and tions the suspected signatures of Eastern experience, who ly, done well, and its big viciary there had been a mutiny of the but only signed a receipt.or only the other day received a over South China augurs well German engine-room crew, and Witness was cross-examined at

for the coming contests in the on arrival af Hongkong it was some length by Mrs Jenkin, say- were bike the genuine ones

Mr. Dovey DTO knighthood. This view of the North. It is true that the Chi- found necessary to put the crewing that a foki would not be given subject has also gained the sup-nese team did not have their ashore and to engage aa cheque book under any cir-out five-minor

the Jury, saying port of one of the best-known best defence out but that fact Chinese crew, which crew cumstances.

does not entirely account for the was engaged shortly afterwards Witness admitted that when the aspects journalists in this part of the interperters big victory, which and these men began their duties the first of the suspected cheques world. The opposition-those was won as a result of superior from Hongkong. On the voyage was presented (it was on the first four who desire to see all houses of all-round play. We too from they did not prove to be satisfac- cheque from the new book issued)

tory, and ware, pot asbora when there were still six chequ ill-fame rigidly suppressed—are experience that ha

the steamer striyed in Shanghai, used in the old book, but it led, and ably lad, by the head of a good acce

A new crew was then enp selves at Socc

thought that the Tal Wo firm

to use up the

the Church of England in not without hap Malaya; and the controversy coming matches

team will be ablet

has waxed strong, culminating for the defeat whic in a public

days ago by the reverend gentle were last here y man in Singapore e, principal

Shan

five chara

signa