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MESS DISTURBANCE.

OLD SOLDIER CHARGED

WITH DRUNKENNESS.

BIAS BAY.

THE HONGKONG

PIRATES STILL BEING HUNTED.

THE PIRACY RULES.

A SHANGHAI COMMENT. The North-China Daily News of A disturbance in the Corporal's] Pirates in Blas, Bay districts last Monday has a loading articlo on the local pirady regulations Room at Murray Barracks, on the nowadays are boing given a

controversy, which It heads evening of January 26th, had a harrassing time, ae, in pursuance

Hongkong Piracy Muddio." soqual this morning whon Corp. of a determination to clean up!

Having surveyed the points Honry James Short was charged this unhealthy spot once and for

in the recont before a District Court Martial all, Commander Wong Fook-ohl brought out

Minority Report," our Northorn with drunkenness. The president is still busily occupied in round. Was Major T. C. Greenwood, ing up the culprits. Sines last contemporary states: R.A, the other mombore boing writing on the subject to the howover, and the point on which Capt. Hoy, Bombay Grenadiers, Hongkong Police officials, he has the views of the Government and entered the Taiping City district, the shipowners appear at prosent and Llout. Hanko, R.A.

Capt. O. 5. Lugard prosecuted and amongst the villages vialled to be quite irreconcilable, is the and Lieut. C. J. Yeo acted as wore Nimshian, Fan Wo Kong question of the employment of

accusod's friend."

Treung Pai, and Tungahan. In Naval patrols. The Hongkong Corpi. Stimpson, who was not addition to the seventeen pirates overnment seems determined to ing Battalion Orderly Sergeant captured in the first operation contious in its policy of placing

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"The arux of the whole mattor,

control of the police authorities;;

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at the time, told the Court that carried out in conjunction the defence of hips under the bo was informed of a disturbance with Hongkong Polico ofit. in the Moss, He found the clale, ho has up to date acousod, who was the catoror, takon oight more, and these drunk, and placed him under have been also taken to Walchow gnorod in this matter; no Naval, Invited to close arrest. In cross-examina- (Chan King-ming's native city) to representative waR

sarvo on the Committee; and tion be said that the accused put await trial. Whorover It' was his hat on and did up his collar and established that a house or villageven in a raid on a pirate lair. which took place some days ago.

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sisted. He had noticed ekylark-Commander had no compunction ing on in the Moss previously, in setting the whole mass on fire. fact that it was not H. M. Navy which co-operated with the Chi- but it appeared to bo mild and Commander Wong Fook-chi, ho took no notice.

who is 37 years of ago, is well-ose troops, but the Hongkong Borgeant Puttock deposed that known in polico circles in this police instead. The owners and when accused arrived in the Colony, having at one time being Naval patrols: no less an guardroom he was drund and Chief of the Detective Ford of authority than Sir Arthur-Love- was wearing no hat or tunic, Canton. It is not true that ho Asked his definition of drunk," was at one time on the Hongkong has stated that they are the ho said that a soldier was drunk Detective staff, though in bis only remedy to the situation; when incapble of carrying out oficial position at Canton, he had and the senior Naval Officer in any military duty

which hoa doal to do with cases of orig has stated in addition that the charge of West River Defenses might be called upon to perform, concorning both cities.

only alternative to the presont) In his defence, Corpl. Short piracies have become more pro-unsatisfactory system is to have called overal persons who wore nounced, he has been closely co- in the Moss at the time and all operating with the Hongkong stated that in their opinion the police in the matter of punitivo not drunk. To expeditions carried out against accused Was closed the bar punctually at 9.15, the culprits. In answer to Corpl. Short, they. declared that ho walked to the guardroom unaided and that ho had his tunic on whon he left. They were aware that ho had a largo sum of money in his possos- Bion.

Corpl. Case said that thoro was a cortain amount of skylack- ing going on from eight o'clock onwards. Shortly aftor nino ho saw Short go to a chair in which a civilian was sitting and tip him out. An argument followed and eventually the accused ordorod

AVIATION TRAGEDY

RECALLED.

LATE MR. EARNSHAW'S

BODY FOUND.

Naval launches: pormanent patrols by armed

really are concerned and who Thus we have the people who

roally should know the ship-| owners, the offloors and oxpori- enced Naval authorities-unro- sorvedly advocating that the pro- sont system be scrapped in its entiroty, that the Navy should tako over all piracy pravention) work on the wator, and that thei Hongkong Police should confine their activitios in the mattor of shore precautions and soarches The aviation tragedy of Jan.and the Hoogkong Government, 24th, in which Mr. Reginald in face of opposition and of the Earnshaw lout his life, is rocalled result of experience, maintaining by the discovery of his body, its adamantino policy of adher- about 5 o'clock yesterday after- ing to a systom which indubit- the civilian out of the Mesa, noon, in the water a fow hundred ably has been provod unsound, Corpl. Doubtfire informed the ards from the spot where ho dos unnessarily expousivo and Court that the accused reported cended, off Kowloon City ro-gonoraily unpopular. Tboro is the loss of his money from his clamation,

possibly some good reason for tunic. The tunic was hanging The search had not boon relax the stand adopted, but it is over the rail of his bed in the ed, and the efforts of the police dimeult to discover: though it guardroom, A search at tho were at length rowurded after has been suggostod that the Moss revealed nothing.

[twolvo · days, Mr. Earnshaw's solution is to ho found behind Corpl. Short said that he was body was found by Inspector the fact that the Hongkong Gov- unawaro cl the charge which had Bond, of the Water Police, float- ornment is answerable to the boon madó against him until he ing on the surface, with the para Colonial offion and H. M..Navy faced his company commander. chuto belt round the waist and to the Foreign Offleo, through Ho mentioned that ho had lost a one of the words ontangled round the Admiralty, in London. The considerable sum of money, not the right leg. The parachute subject, howovor, is too vitally! only that of the Moss but his could not bo raised. The body important for departmental or own. Ho added that he complet- was takon to the Kowloon any othor considerations to bear od his 21 years' servico with the mortuary, and the funeral han undue Influence; and if tho Coloure on January 18th and was boon fired for to-morrow at 11 Hongkong Government cannot or only waiting for a passage Home.a.m., and not this ovoning as will not come out into the opon

The finding and sontonce will previously announced.

and justify its present apparent- bo promulgated in due course, As already intimated, an officially unreasonable attitude, it is enquiry into the circumstancos strongly to be hoped that the attending Mr. Earnshaw's death representations which wo undor. is to bo hold very shortly.

SHIPPING ITEMS,

The coasting steamer Elida Clauson. Captain R. Sandvig, completed her limo chartor yosterday, and went to dry-dock | for overhauling.

STEAMER GRILLES

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stand are likely to be mado in London at an early dato will result in the cloaring up of a situation which should novor havo arison."

DONT'S FOR YOUNG MOTHERS, Another instance of bow tho Don't give baby a aloeping The Wuchow-Hongkong steam-

grillo system works river draught, soothing mixture or or Anjou, Captain R. Brown, je temporarily laid up at the Shum steamora was related to ono of oplate of any kind excopt by or- our representatives yesterday byder of a competent doctor who Shui Po flate, after having made the captain of a Wuchow-Hong as soon the child. All thoro

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one odd trip to Canton and back.

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It is not yet known when sho While his vessel was off Kau Don't give medicine to obeck will resume running in her old Kong, the dynamo broke down, diarrhoes except upon the advice the movement of baby's bowels in The Phranang, Captain H. Oelectric lights on board, including of a physician. Feed the child Kiddle, arrived from Swatow the running lights, were eparingly and givo Baby's Own yesterday, and had moderato tinguished. The epare running Tablets to cleanse the bowele of monsoon with misty and over-lights, burning kerosene, were all irritating socrotions. Koop the

Two P. &, liners, and one pilot house. The master, who was

ready and brightly burning in the abdomen warm.

Don't give a young child B. I. passenger steamer wore on the bridge, immediately ordered cathartics, such as castor oil, alongside the Kowloon wharves the spare lights put in position. which gripo and torture.. Baby's

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will include photographs taken They had to opon the grilles to Own Tablets have a gontla laxa-! The popular chief offer of the do this, howovor, especially in tive notion and never fail to ouro

at the weddings of Mr, W. R. Hydrangea, Mr. E. McCarthy, order to place the mast head constipation.

Mr. E. A. Loggatt, the new

Hillier and Misa Violet B. Taylor, has rezigned and been trans-light, and, in the confusion, the

Don't walk up and down the superintendent of the Eastern and of Mr. M. F. Houghton and

Co. forred to the Derwent, which left Indian guard bad lost his key. floor with a cross, restless child. Extension Tolograph

Miss Mario Rosario; as well as a yesterday for Saigon.

In the meantime they had to pass Nothing can be more demoralizing Hongkong, arrived to-day with group of the Hongkong and two mooting stoamers while their to the little one, and it is a serious Mrs. Leggatt on the s.s, Malwa, Shanghai Interport yachtsmon. own vessel did not hava a single tax upon the parent's strength from Penang. light burning. It took fifteen and nervos. Give the child Baby's minutes before the spare running Own Tablets occasionally and In the replayed semi-final tie ricksha and a motor car at the lights eventually were in their they will remove the cause of the for the Fowlor Cup this morning: proper positions, and the master restlessness and make the little the Right Section defonted "A"

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