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ATHERLEY TRIAL
SIR HENRY GOLLAN'S
SUMMING-UP.
The
Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1811
No. 21,539
XL. WATЯ- SATURDAY, JANUARY
THE HOTEL FIRE.
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PRAISE FOR TROOPS.
Local Command Orders state: -It is notified for the informa-
ion of all concerned that lettora expressing vory high approciation of the valuable services rendored
NEW BOYCOTT.
CANTON NOW AGAINST
· JAPAN. ·
UNIFYING CHINA.
ELECTRICAL AGE.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S BIG
SCHEME
London, Jan. 15,
R
lb, 1926.
日三初月二十
TO-DAY'S BLAZE.
OUTBREAK NEAR BIG BUILDING.
The Government proposals to LEGAL POSITION.
promote a great national electrical MATSHEDS BURNT.
The final stages of the trial of
A mass meeting was held in scheme in order to afford
There was quito a big blaze James Bilward Atherley, ex-by the troops in coping with the Canton on the 18th instant by the cheaper supply of current were Causeway Bay this morning, when fire at the Hongkong Hotel on 1st students, labourers, farmers and outlined by air. Baldwin at Bir three large matsheds belonging to manager of Getz Brothers, on
January, 1926. have been received Merchants Unfans, as well as mem-
mingham, who pointed out that charges of fraudulent conver-
from M.E. the Governor of Hong-hers of the Kuomintang, to pro-
Britain would be seriously handi- sion of his Company's manigs.
capped industrially if she continu- wore reached at the Criminal kong, the Fire Insurance As-
test against the despatching of
ed to lag behind the other nations Sessions this morning, when Sirnciation of Hongkong and the
In "the consumption of electrical Henry Callan began his summing Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, troops to Mukden by Japan. There over ten thousand persons Ltd. The Gongral Officer Com-|
energy. Britain used two bun present. manding congratulates all ranks
dred units per head compared
• The Chairman reviewed: the with nine hundred in Canada and on their endeavours to put out
whole situation and many speeches over five hundred in the United
The alarm was received by the followed, which resulted in the States. He was of opinion that Fire Brigade shortly after ten passing of two. resolutions to the latter gure should be reaches o'clock, and the call was sent out cease all economic relationship here fifteen years
up,
There were a large number of Europeaus in the body of the the fire and save property. Court.
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Sir Henry Golian said :-- Gen- tlamen of the Jury-In the
of this statement has been made by prosecution counsel for the
Course
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REJOINS CANTON
GOVERNMENT,
an answer
and also by counsel for the do- fence in regard to the fact that accused had had more than one opportunity of making. to the charge, of whichhe had not availed himself. Mr. Zeitlyn pro- tested that whether the accused should or should not make an answer or give any idea of what the defence was going to be was a matter wholly for the accused- and his representativos,
Mr. Sun Fo reported to the
wore
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bence, by
the Wing Lee constractors' firm caught fire. The matsheds were situate on the site for the Electric Company's new quarters, quite close to the Belillos Reformatory build- ing, which fortunately escapod damage.
with the
new maing.
“homio call" and two appliances from
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HAPPY VASARY
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts. □ □
The O. B. L (avec Encyclopaedia In view of the painful susponse Britannica) is bestowed upon the suffered by prominent Ice House China Mail for its stony disregard Street residents during the de- of historical foot in attributing to scent of oumishaw coupons from Auguste Rodin the forty-neven an aeroplano, we suggest that ronins' tombstones recently dee- such decuments should be st troyed by fire in Japan.
tached to horseshoes next time.
This fino weather is bringing out the golf bugs.
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Anyway, spraping the back of hor nock isn't so hard as button-
ing her up the back used to be,
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So many organisations aro claiming a share of the Boxer Indemnity that we think it high time the Hongkong Boxing Asso- ciation applied for a grant.
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This a Shanghai. paper "Scotch Guest (hustled out of his room at the recent Hongkong Hotel fire): A recht! But mind, I'm no payin' for the bed!","
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This flying business reminds us that Kowloon, folk can now look down on Peakites.
☐ ☐ Those gay young, things in Kowloon should remember that chaste girls are seldom chased- girls.
☐ ☐ These bombs saized in Hong- kong must have been ordered by a finishing school"
១ . Silence at any rate cannot be misquoted.
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An optimist is a man, who,.." having lost a slipper in a hotel fire, keeps the other in case one day he may have a leg amputat od.
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One thing, revolutionists don't stay mad after they're ·pro-
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A local contemporary advertises $500 ties. Some people might have the neck to wear them,
Last wook six pairs of corsets sperous.. could be bought for a dollar. This week spats in bundles sold for a mere song. Next week's fashion Pumps were combinations should prove inter-
proclaimed King of the Hedjaz. A contemporary sunounced this week that the ex-Jeddah had been
Mr. Wai Chao-pu will be annoyed.
As a last resource we can always get board and lodging by joining a fraternity party.
It's the fat-bead more than the overhead that makes government costly.
with Japan, and to request the cheapening electricity through very soon Ministry of Foreign Affairs at large-scale production and dis-Central and one each from Wanchai Peking and to lodge a protest in tribution. He declared that the and Kennedy Town were on the the strongest possible terms..
present system of generation was spot. special committee was elected too parochial, although very effi-
But for the smart work of the
cient.
Brigade, under Superintendent H. Canton Government on the 13th to carry out the following pro-
Mr. Baldwin added that the Go-T. Brooks and a good pressure of inst, that he had resumed his gramme-A demonstration com-vernment proposed to establish a office as a member of the composed of all sections of the people board managed by practical men, water from the mains, the Reforma mittea of the Government, and as Commissioner of the Construc. to be held on the 18th instant at like the Port of London Autory building might easily have tion Bureau, which is now likely noon; telegrams to be sent to all thority, to control the whole sup become involved. to change its name into Con- parts of world, including the people the board would co-ordinate the used, as well as water from the esting.
ply of electricity all over Britain. munication Burray. On the follow- officials to tiflin at a private chh of Kwangtung; notices to unions, work on purely commercial lines. material, the matsheds were well ing day he entertained prominent of Japan; circulars to the people existing stations and build
ones, raise Its own cupital, and Being of such inflammable societies and corporations to take Any surplus would go towards realight when the Brigade arrived. part in the demonstration; the ducing the cost of puck when the and the blaze was made all the urder of the procession to be interest on the sink g fund had greater from the fart that several
Speculation has been rifè con- beer paid off. The gerament stacks of wood also caught fire. cerning the Shanghai bath which students, merchants, farmers, would initiate the med
- "fomes rose to a great has been on view at the lower labourers, and boldiers, and, the fourantee, and it was bITANDA
neigh and the heat from the blaza Pak Tram Station. Perhaps À WRIT OF ATTACHMENT. Procession to be led by the strike sidered that a subsidy would be was felt over a wide area. to mast black snaps its
was a fortunate circumstance that faces of taippus who get crowded really are. the strong wind was blowing in the out of tiffin trams. opposite direction from the Re-
All this talk about strike settle formatory building, and this fact greatly assisted Brigade in keep-ment is very unsettling to the ing the outbreak within bounds. particular Chinese merchants
The blaze was soon mastered by who don't want to settler the Brigade, but the three mat- sheds were, of course, destroyed.
He fally agreed, continued his Lordship, with Mr. Zeitlyn tat that was so but he sometimes) felt that it was bettor if the case for the defenco could ไวย recognised by a statemont made | We
CANTON RIVER BOATS.
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pickets.
UNIFICATION SCHEME.
necessary-Router.
HIGH-SPEED CABLE.
NEW BRITISH LINE TO BE
LAID.
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London, Jan. 15.
bear that a writ of by the accused parson at the attachment has been taken At a session of the delegates of earliest opportunity. When the against the owners of the Canton accused had given an explanation steamern, Paul Bean and Charles the Kuomint ng. held in Canton resuit. lie question of the unification of Hardouin. and, as they would find that that neither of the stomers are in China was discussed at great
was the defuncc adopted at operation at present.
leng, and a resolution to under-5 On enquiries this morning wo take this task at the earliest pos- the trial, and a strong argument;
asible time are informed that there is
was passed by a large could be based ເກ the fact mortgage for $80,000 held in majority. In consequence of this that the defence had been con-respect of one of the steamers, derision, General Chang Kai-shek
The Colonia, the largest eable ANTI-SOVIET REVOLT. sistent all through. His state-What will transpire as a result bas again sent in his resignation
of this development is not known. | as "Kwan Chang" (General Officer ship in the world, sailed from. ments in the witness box would,
Commanding of the 1st Army Greenwich this afternoon to day Corps), in order to devote his whole Liime to the Military the Eastern Extension Telegraph STOP PRESS. Academy in training a body of Company's duplicate cable over officers to meet the requirements 1,800 nautical miles between Coco of active servige, and at the same time to carry out other heeded re- and Fremantle, forms.
be argued as statements to be bo- Jioved.
ATHERLEY TRIAL.
His Lordship's summing-up
UNREST AMONG RUSSIAN PEASANTS.
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Although some youths look a bit weird in plus fours, they Are not necessarily bogey men.
We trust that the P.O.M.O. bus taken steps to ascertain what these strange spots on the sun
The man who stole a sampan- has probably now realised that it's easier to float a concern than it is to keep going.
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There's a fortune awaiting theThe husband's last word: "All-
clever enough to invent right, buy the damned thing.".
D. D polite onions.
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Talking about fires, saxophones, A Russian named Brokodaff and building contractors reminds has been sent to the House of us that the rest of our days de- Detention. Shouldn't his name pend upon the rest of our nights. have been Brokodown?
All men are born free and equal, but some of them grow up and get married.
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When Cupid bite the mark, it's
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If they took the present case as
Riga, Jan, 15. an illustration, supposing im mediately. he was charged, uc-
It is reported that much unrest. cused had said "It is true I re-
The cable is the new, loaded prevails among the peasantry in ceived this monies, but I did not know they were my omployers;
It is reported that the 1st type, the first British owned and various parts of Soviet Russia, par-nearly always a miss. and 2nd Army Corps are I treated them as the monies of closed at 4.25 p.m. The jury after orders to be in readiness for put down. The cable is designed viks are active.
under manufactured loaded cable to be ticularly in the Ukraine and White
Russia, where armed Anti-Bolshe the ecmpradore", they could see 50 minutas deliberation found nobilisation. There are now for a speed of 2,100 letters a at once how groatly strengthened] The defence in the case would prisoner. guilty, on all four 15,000 men in course of training, minute, compared with 145 in the
who will, it is said, be ready for présent line. have been. It was a mattor solely counts, and an aggregate sentence service in a short time. In another
Murders of over-zealous Com- munist officials arc reported,
Four wheel brakes are all right but what about a fow foro-sighted drivers?
The only time a fisherman tells the truth is when he calls another fisherman a liar.
The Chinese are a patriotic people, always filled with a zeal i to save the country from one an othor.
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Hope may spring eternal, but at the moment it appears to be "The automobile is gradually suffering from arrested develop. The question of further develop-chiefly in the Bobruisk district, brushing aside the ricksha in nient. for the accused and his advisers, of two years hard labour was three months' time, the Militarying the lines between Fremantle where the militia and local authori China." says last Saturday's
Academy at Swatow will turn out and Adelaide is now being con- act against the rebeis, and are however, when the
ties are alleged to have refused to motor notes. It's a bit annoying, Talking of the Horticultural brushing Show-quito a number of people them. business takes place in the in the Colony to-day are water- co-operating with even 'The Colonia is expected to arrive)
tacinity of a muddy nullah!
ing stocks.
and the most they could say where there had bean completo passed.
reservation of defence was that
it was unfortunate that no stato-]
ment had previously been mado because the defence would have been groutly strengthened.
sidered,
15,000 more men for service.
In the event of the Canton Gov- ernment raising the standard of at Cocos in the middle of February, monies. Such cases were alway Army Corps, comprising 120,000 cable to Fremantle early in March. revolution, it is said that four and to complete the laying of the diffcult to decide, because people strong, can be mobilised. His Lordship proceded to did not go about proclaiming the thermore, General Chang Kai- state the nature of the four fact that they were going, thek and General Fan Yun-kai counts, and said that before going commit fraudulent conversion,ave been appointed executive of
Fur-Reuter
on to examine the facts he pro- and a jury could only decide freers of the Military Committee, OCCUPATION TROOPS. posed to explain the exact legal from the evidence. They had to construction which had to be ask themselves the question: Tor, the purpose of conducting placed on the charges. In the Did the accused, knowing the lairs in connection with the com- first place, the jury had monies wero tho monies of ing campaign.
to be satisfied in rospect of Monsre. Gotz Bros., apply them to some or all of the amounts his own purposes, and, secondly, menclad in the charges that if he did so, did he do it without there had been payment to the the knowledge and consunt and plaintif. It was common be- Mossry, Getz? If they found tween the parties that the money those questions established, then! had been received. Thero was there was strong evidence that strong dispute on the part of ac- the monies had bean. fraudulent-| cised as to whether the sums ly converted
to, his own had been received by or for the purposes. It had been admitted | account of Messrs. Getz that the monios wore used to Brothers. Evidence on that point onable the accused to gamblo, and
SOVIET AND DISARMAMENT.
AGREES TO JOIN
• CONFERENCE.
GERMANY WANTS FURTHER, REDUCTION.
Berlin, Jan. 15. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Reichstag has passed a re- solution declaring that the reten- tion of 70,000 occupation troops in. the Rhineland would mean a serious disappointment to Justi news fiable German : expectations and
Moscow, Jan. 15.
had been given by the cashier if such a position became general An official of the Tass
and the compradoro, who said it would be very hard on employ agency leans authoritatively that would be wholly incompatible with that the monies were known to be ers, because they were denied the Soviet has decided to accept the political situation created by the monies of Gotz Brothers profit on the money, if an on the invitation of the League of and that they word handed ployoo woo and wore almost
the signing of the Locarno agree. to accused as the result of in- certain to lose if the employee Nations to participate in 2 pre- structions issued by accused. lost. The law on the point was liminary disarmament, conference ment, in view of the impending ments, and requesting die. Govern- Furthermore a document had really quito simple; it was tho beon produced by the prosecution question of fact which was con- and not to object to the participa-political decisions of the Foreign showing the exact procedure fused and contradictory.
tion of Soviet experts in a pre-Powers to continue ita most adopted in the matter of those His Lordship then went on to liminary commission on economic energetic efforts to bring about. payments. The jury had, also, read through the whole of the subjects, provided theso commize the reduction of the occupation to be satisfied that there had evidence, and this was proceeding sions do not meet on Swiss ter- forces and to strengthen the pre- boon fraudulent conversion of the as we went to prese.
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