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No. 21,859

LITTLE SUCCESS. SNATCHING BY INDIAN

SOLDIERS.

BURGLARS VISIT BIBLE DEPOT.

CHINESE GIRL'S WATCH'

STOLEN.

ONLY $100 TAKEN. IMPRISONMENT SENTÈNCE.

The Bible, Book and Tract Depot, in Wyndham Street, which ta managed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, is the latest city, store to be visited by burglara.

When Mrs. Bailey, manageress of the shop, opened its doors yes- terday, a first glance at the dis- orderly state of the interior suf-

ficed to convince her that un- desirable customers had been amongst the stock. Drawers were palled open, and the contents as 'well as books from the show cases

were littered all over the floor

the woodwork.

Charges of larcens of a. gold wrist watch and unlawfully re- ceiving the watch, knowing the some to have been stolen, were res- pectively brought against two in- dian soldiers, before M. E. W. Iamilton at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning.

had them

WAX## TUESDAY,"

FRAUD CASE.

THE WING ON, CO AS VICTIMS.

MORE CHARGES.

The three Chinese who appear

last ed at the Central Magistracy week on a charge of attempting to defraud the Wing On Co. of

are

BİX

FEBRUARY

POLICE ROUND UP BEGGARS

1926 日七十二月二十

BOYCOTT EFFECT.

HOW KWANGTUNG TRADE SUFFERS.

BUSINESS STAGNANT

to keep

certain

SÍNOLE; GOPI 10 VENTA

#36 PER ANNUM

Everywhere HUDHOW la kaowa de the World's Greatest Buy. Quality made its large volume sales-Volume maken it lowest in prica: HUDSON -prison are lowest because tremendous volume hau made possible economical methods of manufacture The world's largest production of sixzz-Hudson and sex-opens economies not possible' in ».. smaller production. Through Increase of quality, groster sales and volume economics have resulted That volume perivits lower Prices, There you have the reason for RUDSON'S loadership in valuo, in price, in antes.

Touring. $3000

GRIM MURDER IN: HARBOUR.

BOATWOMAN KILLED BY ROBBERS.

BODY RECOVERED.

consolation to learn from facts with a piece of rope around the

neck.

71

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the

Coach..............$3000

THE DRAGON MOTOR

CAR CO., LTD.

33 WONG NAI Chung AD, HAPPY VALLEY.

SHAMEEN BANKS.

CHINESE WITHDRAWING DEPOSITS.

SYSTEM EXPLAINED.

In order to allow Chinese de

MOTOR VAN KEPT BUSY!"

CLEARING THE STREETS.

These times of stress have not caused the beggar fraternity to

Hongkong's trade losses conse- During the night of the 7th- quent upon the strike and boycott 8th inst., a grim affair was enact-positors to withdraw money from think legs of Hongkong as the

have been variously estimated.ed on the harbour when robbers the foreign banks; the ban on entry. happy hunting-ground which it

All the strike pickets detailed by who went on a native passenger into Shameen has been temporarily the Strike Committee have boat murdered the boatwoman in withdrawn, and it is reported that $50,000 and interest, were again undoubtedly was in more proster

ous times. Consequently, with falled

Bri-cold blood and dumped her body during the first day of business a brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell

Yesterday afternoon the near approach of the Chinese tigh goods out of the Kwang-overboard. this morning, when further

New Year, an extraordinarily ung province, and while it is police floating about a hundred out, mainly through the agency of the body was found by the water sum of about three lakhs was taken charges were added. The case

large number of these folk have in

agreed that the loss has been a yards off the reclamation opposite native bank's, wis adjourned until next Tues.

Under the scheme, employees of The evidence showed that short-

some mysterious way been able

heavy one, it is at least some Spring Garden Lane at Wanchai, day afternoon.

foreign banks who are on strike are ly after eight o'clock last night,

to make the trip here from Canton Altogether there the defendants and three other",

and Macao, notwithstanding pre- and figures to-day to hand, that It was an old sampan woman permitted to resume their duties charges, which are as follows: Punjabi soldiers were in Sheung

vailing conditions.

Canton's setback has been more who first reported at the Water during the period of the lifting of Between April 28th, and August

There is a Police Department than equal in proportion:

Police Station the sudden dis-

the ban, in order that the extra On Lane, Hunghom, where they

her of: 16th, 1923, they conspired to-which is normally solely, occupied

friend. appearance met a Chinese girl, and, after some!

Kwangtung's handicap has been

Apparently she had loaned or work may be coped with, and, ac- gether to defraud the Wing On Co. with the licensing and regulation!

sum of money to the cording to a Chinese report, over conversation, the first defendant)

Colony, but greater than that of Hongkong. given a of the eum of $50,000 and $663.00 of hawkers in the was alleged to have suddenly interest, by a false representation these last few days a change has Not only has the province been latter before this happened, as fifty employees of the. Hongkong

she was able to tell the police Entry had been effected through snatched a watch from the girl's that the Company was indebted of necessity come into the routine adversely affected by the strike that a sum of $100, which should and Shanghai Bank, the Peninsula a door which gave on to a little wrist and run away.. The fom for that sum to a firm styled when the officer in charge found

by Kwong Cheong, and by the pro-himself called upon to abate the and boycott, but two years of have been in a certain box on the and Oriental Bank, the Bank of yard at the rear of the premises, plainant raised the alarm

accordingly. registered themselves. From the alley way behind the beat Chester Wo whistle Ser-duction of a forged deposit book; nuisance resulting from the pre-internecine strife, followed in the passenger boat, was not there. Taiwan and the French Bank havg geant Chester-Wood, who was re- that they conspired together, with sence of so many beggars on the natural sequence of things in This circumstance gave to the police their first clue as to the

at the Chinese Chamber of Com- Something had to be A.P.C. building, the burglar or turning to the Police Station, heard persons unknown, to forge a docu-streets.

China with largely Increased mature of the case.

merce for service. At the time on The second development was burglars had managed to get at the whistles, and, arriving on the ment purporting to be a deposit done in the cause of public order, the staple lock by cutting away scene, arrested the five Indians and book isued by the Wing On Co. and once again that most useful banditry and brigandage, the

of the employees of the Internation- taken to the Station between March 9th, and May 4th, of appliances the police motor paralysation of transport facilities the discovery of the body of the which this report was made none

missing boatwoman with The next step When searched, nothing was found 1923, and btween March 9th and van has been brought" into re- due partly to the depredations of severed end of a rope tied to her al, Yokohama Specie or Chartered was to cut away the glass of the on the first defendant, but the August 13th; that between March quisition.

On the first day of business, a the 9th and May 4th, 1923, they at- On Thursday last an intensive roving bands of defeated soldiery neck. The bead bore the marks Banks had registered. rear-window, to enable a hand to watch was 'discovered in

with committed

some sharp few of the depositors failed to com- second defendant's hand.

tempted to utter a forged docu-campaign against the pests was which infest the province, and of a brutal attack having been be put through to draw lick the

In a statement to the police, the ment purporting to be a deposit carried out by Sergeant Nolloth partly to the wilful cessation of

instrument, probably a chopper. Ply with the rules laid down and catch. JL Was disappointing first defendant admitted the book, issued by the Wing On Co. The chief streets were scoured the normal methods of water com-There were no fewer than seven were turned back. They had mere- ly obtained a printed permit form for the men that they should charge while the second defendant knowing it to be forged; that they and over forty beggars collected. munication, have given the trade cuts, in all

In view of discovery of these from the Bureau of Commerce and And, in the next stage, a dif- suid the watch was given to him made a further attempt between Not without considerable trouble

March 9th, and August 13th, 1923; and embarrassment were they got of the Province a hard hit which

details, the police are now of the then applied to the banks for pay- Giving his defence in Court, the that on August 18th, 1023, with together and herded into the chi-will need a considerabla period of opinion that the robber must havement. In several particulars they of an iron bar frame. This frame first defendant pleaded that he other persons unknown, they con-cle. Some threw themselpro-freedom of action if it is to re-been known to the boatwoman, had omitted to carry out the rules,

and broke

and that this caused him to com- and hence were unable to withdraw exactly fitted in behind the purchased the watch from the girlspired together to endeavour to strate on the ground.

and gave it to the serunt defen-cause to be paid to the industrial into heart-rending cries, the bet-cover the lost ground.

It will be of interest to set out wooden window frame, and fromdant as a present.

and Commercial Bank the sum of ter to attract the pity and invite

Three months ago the export mit murder, in addition to the their money.

the rules laid down in connection the position at which the burglari

4,663.00, by virtue of a forged the intervention of tender-hearted trade, consisting chiefly of raw other crime, so as to cover up all

with this scheme. In the first deposit book, purporting to have passers-by: In such

the silks, native medicines, mats and traces of the robbery. was working its presence could and

been issued by the Wing On Co. obstinate ones had to be lifted up

other native products, had suffer-

place, an applicant wishing to visit Goods had

Shameen for the purpose of with- not be detected.

knowing it to be forged, and with bodily by two or more men and ed enormous losses.

piled up in the godowns to the intent to defraud the Wing On bundled willy-nilly into the van,

drawing money has to apply to value of well over one hundred

the Bureau of Commerce, which, Co.

For many of these mendicants,

million dollars. Nine-tenths of

supplies him with a printed form the prosecution; Mr. G. K. Hall Not that they could not afford this

affected, and the NO REPLY TO INVITATION. on which particulars have to be fill- ed in stating the name of the de- Brutton defended the second and luxury, for one or two in the batch

restrictions on imports followed

Rugby, Feb. 8.

with positor, the amount to be third defendants; and Mr. Leo had money on them, and in their by the total suspension of those Questioned as to the attitude drawn, the naine of the bank, etc." dAlmada appeared for the first small way were quite rich. It is industries dependent on materials of the Soviet Government towards with this printed form, he proceeds" defendant.

recounted that one young fellow supplied by foreign countries, the preliminary discussions on to the Treasury Department, which Once inside the shop, the

Mr. Jenkin said he thought they had as much as $17.50 on him created a stagnation of business disarmament, Sir Austen Cham- enters up all the particulars of the. drawers were forced spen, in the giving the name of Trevor Carlyle, had got hold of a portion of a when he came into the police net, which quickly resulted in finan-berlain and that so far as he was permit, which in due course is re- If any doubt still exista that cial stringency amounting almost aware the Soviet Government had turned to the applicant, together expectation that money would be Phillips, appeared before Major gang, whose business it was to found therein. But the robbers Willson, at the Central Police nine witnesses for the prosecution. these folk, we have only to refer

operate upon the banks. He had Hongkong is not a paradise for to a panic.

not yet, officially replied to the with a receipt from the Treasury. While the boycott was enforced invitation to take part in the Pre- found only one lone Shanghai

Court this morning, charged with! Mr. Brutton said the case arose dollar, and'a bad one at that being in the Colony wtihout cm- in 1923, but it was not until the to the case of an old man who was there could be no hope, of the paratory Commission for the dig. The permit and receipt are then ployment, and without visible present your that it had been given a free ride to the station position being relieved, but for armament conference. He under the amount of the licence fee, cal-

An old offender, he is well-known tunately the silk merchants were stood that they objected to thought to commence proceed- They know it now, as they took

It was stated the defendant was ings. He thought he should be to the police from the fact that at- able to come to an arrangement Geneva as a place of meeting as culated by the Treasury, is paid. tempts to rid the Colony of him with the China Merchants Navi- they were not in diplomatic re- The permit and receipt are then the coin away with them.

It was not to be expected that years, but lost his appointment as the other side had had so long He has been sent back to his native steamers were to transport the ment.

in Shanghal for two and a half given time for his investigations, permanently have hitherto failed.gation Company whereby their lations with the Swiss, Govern-signed and stamped, and returned The British Government to the applicant, who then proceeds the burglars could derive any there, and was smuggled into the to prepare theirn. He should material advantage by taking away Colony by the crew of a coasting know what sort of a case he had place near Canton no less than ten raw silk to Shanghai direct. This had not had any occasion to to Shameen gate: the Bibles and tracts, either steamer."

times, but on each occasion he has outlet for silk at once relieved express an opinion on that sub-pickets drawn up, and if to answer,

The question of ball was raised, always found means of returning the situation, money was more ject. He hoped that any difficulty thing is In order they allow the

to the Colony...

freely circulated and naturally would be removed before the date applicant to pass in to withdraw. and an argument ensued between

Yesterday the van again made the general trade internally of the meeting-British Wireless, his money, and on his coming ove Mr. Lindeell and Mr. Brutton. another tour and when it returned Improved. It is now stated that Eventually Mr. Lindsell decided

to the Station it had a full load. the trade of Canton has been not to grant bail, and added he During the course of the day, restored to close upon forty per would keep another date open thirteen beggars were roped in. If cent, of its normal extent. provisionally in the event of the these energetic measures were not defence not being prepared to go taken now, according to a police on with the case when it came up officer, the streets of the Colony. next Tuesday.

would simply be overrun with 'needy folk in quest of a lai-sch! (present) on Chinese New Year's Day?

by the other defendant.

ficult proposition in the form

Thus baffled, the burglars next tried the door which gave on the yard from the shop, and the task of prising open the door and wrench- ing away the stapl; lock was found quite an easy one.

although the burglars, of course,

did not know this fact at the time.

Both defendants were convicted

each sentenced to months' hard labour,

thren

AN OUT-OF-WORK.

RUMANIAN CHARGED WITH

VAGRANCY.

Stated to be a Romaniang a man

means of subsistance.

1

for sale ог for personal use, He was sent to the House of so these

books were left Detention: severely alone, none being taken away,

ARMED ROBBERY.

A

TENANT BOUND. AND GAGGED.

The only articles which it would have been worth while for the ..burglars to take away were

number of fountain pens, kept in a show case. These pens, which! are worth $30, were taken possen- sion of by the robbers, who also appropriated the only typewriter

An armed robbery, occurred yes- Hunghom,

in the shop-a second-handterday afternoon in machine, the value of which is Armed with knives, three men

assessed at $70,

PALIBI PROVED.

SEQUEL TO ROBBERY."

cases

Mr. F. C. Jenkin appeared for was their first motor ride all lines of business had been

- !

THE ALTAI MARU,

VESSEL STILL AGROUND.

It has now been decided to dia-

THE BITER BIT.

adversely

U. S. SHARES SLUMP,

DECLINES ON NEW YORK MARKET.

New York, Feb. 8. After several weeks of slow and gradual advance, heavy declines

THE SOVIET AND DISARMAMENT.

EMBASSY COSTS.

taken to the Central Bank, where

Here there are,

every-

again he is once more subjected to examination by the pickets, who verify the amount withdrawn. If this in correct, he goes back to the General Chamber of Commerce, re turns the permit, and the follow- ing day the Chamber sends the permit back to the Bureau of Com merce for cancellation.

It is stated that the procedure.. for the withdrawal of jewellry, title deeds, mortgages, etc., has not yet been finally decided upon.

SALARY THAT WAS INSUFFICIENT.

Washington, Feb. 8.

There are other minor details, Giving evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the but a sufficient description of the made their way into the ground

House of Representatives, which is procedure has been given to show cor of No. 102 Wuhu Street, and

considering a. Bill to appropriate the awkwardness and absurdity of Mrs. Bailey has reported the stole a sum of $100 from a locker. burglary to the police.

A tenant whom they found in the

five million dollars to construct the system. Incidentally, niso it Embassies, Mr. Frank Page, son of shows that, the Canton Govern- premises was left bound and gagg-

the former Ambassador, Dr. Page, mont is working band in glove with ed in a cubicle: He, freeil himself charge the bunker coal of the 6.3. REVENUE OFFICER ROBBED. in many stocks occurred on the declared that it cost his father the boycott organizations in the after the departure of the unwel- come visitors and raised the alarm. Altal Maru, which so far has

A story causing some amuse-Stock Market to-day as the result $48,000 a year to run the Embassy carrying out of the scheme.

in London on a salary of $12,000. The robbers had escaped by the resisted all attempts to get her off

ment in local police circles, though of a bold raid by bears, asulated Renter American Service. time the police arrived at the the bank in the Fo Tau Man Pass, the victim has yet to see the point by several adverse factors, includ on which she grounded in Sun- of the joke, concerns a robberying the announcement that the day's fog.

which took place on the Kowloon Government is planning to inves Further lighters and junks have side of the Harbour yesterday.tigate the Ward-Baking merger A certain local revenue officer and rumours that the proposed been sent out to-day and it is hoped that she will be off either was out visiting-in other words,merger of the Postum Cereal Cor- this afternoon or carly to-morrow, he was raiding a house which was poration and the California Pack- There is a danger of the vessel suspected to be harbouring an ing Corporation has been declared off, These two stocks crumpled heoling over, and, in order to ob- opium divan.

Probably his departure had been precipitately, California's failing viate the possibility, she has been secured to the shore with wire watched, for on returning home over twenty points and Ward- Although the man were identified In the House of Commons to-day, ropes. Launches and Junks are later, the officer discovered that Bakings eleven points. The rest mier, stated in the House of Com- that as the result of an accident. br two of the victims and pointed Mr. Ronald. F. McNeill, the finan- warned of the danger of passing thieves had entered his premises of the market declined sympathe-mons in reply to a question, that to a Bristol fighter at Heliopolis, cont to the police in the street, it clal secretary, stated that the total through the channel with these and taken away much of his per- tically, but signs of, recovery no political or commercial arrange Egypt, on February 6th, Flying. was stated by Inspector Pincott net revenue. from the silk duties wire ropes in the vicinity. gonal property.

appeared in the last hour. Gils monts or concessiong had been on- Officer Tremellon, the pilot, was that there had been a mistake in up to the end of January was The vessel had over, three thou It is not yet known whether the and railroads made a particularly tered into with the Italian Govern- killed, and Flight Lieutenant

prisoners Identity and they 2446,000 received from the exclse sand tons of cargo on board when officer is conducting his own an: good recovery Reuter Ameri- ment in connection with the war Sturley Simpson, was

débt settlement- #kinto th" both able to prove an allhi, duty on artificial, slik Reuter, she rounded

[house.

It

THE SILK DUTY.

TWO MILLIONS TO END

OF JANUARY.

London, Feb. 8.

Two Chinese, who were arrested in connection with the armed rob- bory committed at No. 343, Port- land Street on February 2, appear ed at the Kowloon Magistracy this" morning, and, on the police offer-

no evidence, they Ing

discharged..

were

+

ITALIAN DEBT.

AN UNFETTERED SETTLE- MENT.

Rugby, Feb. 8.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Pre-

AIR FATALITY.

BRITISH OFFICER KILLED.

**Rugby, Feb. 8.

The Air Mifitry announces