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No. 21.800

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TAX FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

THE BOYCOTT.

12.

1926.

日十三月二十

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DOUBLE MURDER. RICKSHA RIDES PROVE

'FATHER AND SON KILLED.

FATAL ALARM An attempted robbery, leading to the murder of two of the vietinis, occurred at Shepshulpe in the early hours of this morning.

While the proprietor of the On Yeung Foundry, an extensive con- cern occupying a block of seven!

WILH houses in lung Street. asleep in the premises with hist "workmen, armed rubbers, made.n

COSTLY.

COOLIES AND STREET THIEVES IN COLLUSION.

TWO VICTIMS YESTERDAY:

That there is, in existence o

ricksha

gang of street thieves, who work in conjunction with coolies, is revealed in a report which has been made by one of their victims, Mr. UI. M. Gross- mayer, third steward of the Pre- sident Pierre.

ESTIMATE OF HEAVY LOSSES.

GERMAN APPLICA FION RAISES PROBLEM.

LIMCHOW" DETAINED AT CANTON-

CHINESE.SUFFER.

Estimates made of the losses suffered by natives of Kwangtung. Provines, in Cafton and Hongkong,

sufferers.

"

OTHER POWERS APPLY.

London, Feb. 11.

36 PKR ANNUM

Bulls and Inners

From the Office Butts. ជ· ព

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What is the difference between If you were to proy on the

Dick Norton's Globe-Trottor mind of some folk, you'd die of

party and the Empress of Scot- starvation. land's tourist party? Ono socs

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"

LATER RELEASED.

the world in the "circle," and the

Motor Noto: Always park along-

car. It will Amongst Chinese business circles other circles the world in the soa. sido a nice new

back out without scraping yours. Arising from certain .eported in the Colony the report has been

MacWhirter had his kilt on

We trust that tho Shanghai in- last Monday. This, however, had' as a result of the prolongation or moves inspired by France in con-in circulation for some days that a the boycott put the figure at con-

nection with Germany's application certain steamer has been fined by nothing to do with the visit of the torport. golfer who rejoices in the

to the name of Blinko realises the neces for admission to the League of the Canton Government for alleged Empress of Scotland

Colony..

sity of keeping his eye on the siderably over 165 million dollars.

Nations, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, contravention of the rule it recent-

ball. This will serve to 'show that in a.

A letter was discussed at last movement professedly designed to in the House of Commons, invitedly issued against making Hongkong

Nows reaches us from Singapore injure foreign trade, the Chinese a statement from Sir Austen Cham-a port of call in the case of steam-Tuesday's meeting of the Sanitary

Bourd relative to mosquito at that an American tourist waR With the idea of taking the themselves have been the principal seriain, who, replying, said that era, trading with Canton. There Shok, O." We understand that recently found wandering about Star Ferry boat to return on One result of the boycott has the application, as was probably was talk of a colossal fine having the Board hopes to shoot it should in the small hours of the morning. been imposed on the steamer.it come down to Tai-tam for an with a pair of trousers on his surreptitious entry into that por-board, Mr. Grossmayer, last night been to stop the free inflow of re-inevitable, had opened the whole which was said to be owned by early morning drink.

arm, looking for the Singapore Free Press. tion of the establishment used as

ricksha outside the 'mittances from Overseas Chinese, question of the composition of the Chinese, and the news caused con- engaged a

and a rough calculation puts this Council. It had led to claims from siderable interest, because if the an office, and ordered him and

Referring to the "Empress of Hongkong Hotel, but it was not

This other quarters but until the argu-story were correct, It would be the

"Intarosted:"Just because a figure at fully $25,000,000.

Scotland" & contemporary, states. his young son in cold blood.

until the vehicle had travelled money is usually very largely em-ments had been heard it was im-first enforcement of the new re-She has already made four gentleman carried a number of narcissi on a plate, it doesn't They did not steal anything, but

ployed in commercial transactions possible to reach a final decision.gulation, and be regarded as left two knis, some gags and a West for some distance that

in Canton and the province gen-As regards the course that would precedent for similar acts on the cruisers. We understand that in

order to 1 kafter them properly, necessarily follow that he was an used for securing became aware of the fact that he erally, and the cutting off of the best serve the interests of the part of the Cantor Government.

amateur photographer, even if length of w

Enquiring into the matter, a the mother ship has been amah-

there was a bulb exposure. the gags) behind them.

was not being taken in the right supplies has caused such a string-Council and the League he would

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DO Very little appears so far avail-

A wave of his hand ency that banditry has very largely make a further statement before Telegraph reporter learns that plated. direction. able to the police in the way of

communicate the mistake to increased in the province.

his departure to attend the Coun what really happened was that the It's calculated that if the "Bible Store Robbed," says a In regard to the restriction ell in March, if possible, but he steamer Limehow, trading between information as to the the coolie was the signal for the clues or

average Hongkong motorist col- newspaper heading. This of exports for foreign markets, thought that as a good deal of dif- Canton and Haiphong (and flying lected all his upkoop bills and carrying the search for gospel exact aequence of events.

later to drop his shafts. assistant accouillant of the shop was in a thoroughfare the name it is estimated that a loss of ference of opinion must at Aret the French flag, was detained on a young lad named Yeung Kam of which was not known to Mr. another $25,000,000

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yu, who slept in a back cubiele Grossmayer. Then from a side-suffered, whilst the exports of na-exist it would defeat the whole ab-her last visit to Canton in consa./laid them out in a straight line, truth a bit too far..

threatening him with

He

FL knife. Induced to keep quiet; the ac- countant had perforce to

lie

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This is

We understand that the ghost sald he was awakened by the

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at the Central Police Station street there rushed a man, who, tive produce for consumption by ject of the forthcoming meetings quence of a report having been laid they'd almost reach from his sound of a police whistle.

und influence If representatives she put into Hongkong on her way

The motor crank used to be proved to be due to the Traffic found a man standing over him with the assistance of the coolle, Overseas Chinese are calculated to and destroy the League's usefulness before the Canton Government that garage to the House of Detention.

below the radiator. Nowadays Department putting a spook in proceeded to rifle Mr. Gross-have declined by quite $20,000.

steamer in detention of the

the wheel of a reckless motorist. In the matter of the deprecia- were bound in advance by rigid in from Haiphong. After three days

he's mostly found at the wheel. mayer's pockets. They took from

Canton, she was released On

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ថា ជ him a sum of $10 in American tion of investments in Hongkong, structions which would render

Home Note:-When, carefully notes. The coolie then decamp-it is conservatively estimated that common agreement Impossible.

The only addition that Sir Austen investigationes revealing the fact

We may not know Latin, but that the report laid before the motionless on his bed while. R ed with his ricksha in one direc-this, only taking natives of Kwang-

Chamberlain was willing to make

Canton authorities in the first certainly many of our Citizen dressed, it is very difficult to tell tion and the second man ran into tung into account, totals fully

to the foregoing statement

Soldiers could do with a little an old hen from a young chicken. was incorrect. $100,000,000,

· OD another street. Mr. Grossmayer

The Canton agents of the Lim- more drill. All these figures are said to be that more than two other Powers calculated on a decidedly conservabad applied for seats on the Coun-chow, which, by the way, is own

Some folk talk so clearly about tive basis, and they are most illu- cil-Reuter-

ed by a Franco-Chinese Company The only reason some Kowloon what should be done with Canton GERMANY'S VIEWPOINT. minating as showing how the con-

under the name of Messra, J. folk are alive is because they are that you'd think they'd been -Berlin, Feb. 11.

vaccinated with an" orthophone tinuance of the boycott is reacting

Pannier and Company, of Hai-agile.

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needle. the Reports of "Intrigues" on the 01

phong, represented to the Canton long interval of absolute silence Mr. John Henry Oakes, quarter-with disastrous effect

'O'O part of certain Governments to exauthorities that the Limehow, al-

What about spare parts for convinced him that the intruders master of the .. Empress of Chinese.

blanket thrown over him effectively prevented him from seeing what the intruders

is unable to tell the police the According to a re-number of the ricksha. made to the police, he did not dare to throw blanket away from him until a

were doing.

port which

the

"EMPRESS" QUARTERMASTER

ROBHED.

Court this

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WU PEI-FU STARTS.

Was

on the

our bier

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The unread bread the Rad.

no or

To-day, according to the Chinese tend the permanent membership of though she had formerly called pedestrians? ៨. had left. Later on going out in-Scotland, also had an unpleasant to the front room, to investigate, experience last evening, when he calendar, marks the end of the the League Council has aroused regularly at Hongkong, had alter-

The chicken which we've just A contemporary states: "The wallet containing. $13, eighth month of the boycott, and considerable interest. In the ab-ed her schedule to accord with bought from the compradore Cheung Chau Residents Assocía- he almost stumbled against the had a

the papers, and photographs stolen it is for this period that these sence of official comment it is felt the Government's requirements should be given the Order of the tion Committee met op Saturday body of a man lying across

The certain that Germany will regard it since the issuing of the ban. On Full Crop in the Chinese New to transact necessary business doorway of the room. Outside in by a ricksha coolie, while riding figures have been drawn up.

was in Wanchai. The photographs boycott organisation has been ope- as disloyal and contrary to diplo the trip in question, she had gone Year Honours List.

matters. There was also a slight the office, another body

drizzle of rain. Looks as if stretched out on the floor.

These were

a rating with increasing vigilance matic custom to invite Germany to up to Swatow before returning to the ground in found on

if the join the Council and then drastical-Canton, and it was suggested that bodies were of the proprieter of scavenging lane off Spring Garden during this period, and

Talking of Prohibition, is may Professor. Roffey might have the foundry and his young son, Lane, but the wallet itself and energies of the leaders and picketsly alter its composition. It is un- this change of schedule might

២. ប៉ the cotton-spinner has his gin, the who had died from a number of the other articles have not been had been put to better purpose, it derstood that the Government is of have produced the present mis annoy Mr. Volstead to learn that been present. is conceivable that heavy losses of opinion that Germany must be understanding.

What Canton would like to stab wounds.

recovered. From the story related by the A ricksha coolle was charged revenue to the Canton Government given a permanent seat

After three days, during which soldier his, bar, the sailor his sole survivor of this tragedy, it before Mr. E, E. Lindsell, at the could have been prevented; to say Council which must not otherwise the Limehow was not allowed to port, and we're all going to have pass is an appropriation bill.

discharge her cargo, the docu- mor- nothing of the huge, sums which be increased. Reuter.

อ.

Strike would appear that the whistle Central Police

strike, the Chinese merchants have lost.

NO DECISION YET,

ments necessary to the clearance. which woke him up in the first ning, with the theft..

Appropriately enough, when a vagrant does not believe Hong- Rugby, Feb. 11. and departure of the vessel being woman goes to the doctor and says kong is finished. Instance was blown by the pro- The complainant, giving evi-

Sir Austen Chamberlain, the withheld, the explanation of the she's tired out, the first thing he

白口 prietor when the presence of the dence, said he hired the ricksha

Foreign Secretary, was question Canton agents was accepted and does is to look at her tongue. robbers in the room was discover- to take a ride, and they went in

A Sign of Civilisation: "Only ed by Mr. Ramany Macdonald, the the Limchow was permitted to ed. It is thought that the blow-the direction of Wanchai. When

sixteen persons were lynched பப Labour Leader, regarding state-clear again for Haiphong, which ing of this whistle led the robbers they came to a deserted spot he

There is no truth in the rumour in America last year. to murder the proprietor and his got out of the ricksha, and paid CAPTURE OF SINYANGCHOW. Press that two Powers, in addi- Aceleration of the negotiations quired to qualify for a drivers ments which have appeared in the she did on the 31st. January that golfers will in future be re- son, and that the intruders. would the coolic 20 cents. He charter-

Some of our young folk forget not have contemplated such led the sume ricksho again, and

Hankow, Feb. 12, tion to Germany, were to be grant with the Canton Government, a licence, in view of the fact that that a girl can be alive wire deed had they been allowed to told the coalie to take him to It is reported that Wu Pel-fu's ed permanent seats on the Coun- explained by the local agents to one enthusiast drove through the without being shocking. have their own way in an enter Sampan Street, and when they croops have captured Pengehiawan eil of the League of Nations. be due to the fact that although windscreen of a motor car with-

Chamberlain replied the vessel is partly Chinese-own-out stopping. prise aiming at the theft of arrived there he put his hand in Station, cutting of the Kuominchun Sir Austen

Hercules made a pretty good she was registered in Hai-

Augean money and valuables.

his trousers pocket to get some forces in Sinyangchow from the that the application of Germany ed,

job of cleaning the for admission to the League had phong and was flying the French Speaking of "eats," one of our stables, but we wonder how he The police were duly apprised money, The coolie snatched his main body "and disarming them.

visitors won't forget his tiff in a would have got along changing of the affair, and on their arrival wallet, which was in the inside Sinyangchow is now completely opened up the whole question of flag.

the composition of the Council and Until the issuing of the ban taxi in Hongkong. they had the bodies removed to pocket of his jacket, and ran in Wu Pei-fu's hands-Reuter,

the oil in the differential. 1.

O' the Mortuary.

away. Complainant gave chase, [Sinyangchow is in the Province was giving rise to claims in other against steamers calling at Hong

The law is commonsense. The only detail which could be and the coolie was stopped by a of Honan, and it derives its im-quarters, but until these claims kong, the Limchow used to call

Telephone statistics say that obtained in regard to the identi-Chinese policeman. When search-portance from the fact that it is had been formally preferred and here regularly, trading between That's why it is so difficult to out of a thousand calls, the fication of the robbers was a state-ed they failed to find the wallet the head of navigation on the Shih arguments both for and against Hongkong, Canton, Haiphong and

wrong number is only given Her local agents,

thirty times. But then figures ment by the accountant that the in the possession of the coolie. A Ho, a tributary of the Hwat He, had been heard, it was impossible other ports. man who spoke to him used the report was made to the police, and and is also the terminus of the to reach any final decision as to Messrs. Sing Kee, of No. 55, Jer-

The population in Ice House can provo anything. Shokki dialect. It being dark at in company with Sergb. Rozeakwy, great road from the north which the course which would beat serve vols Street, to-day announce that Street isn't nearly so dense these the time, the accountant says he the complainant made a search of later degenerates into a mule path the interests of the Council and the Limchow, after her release, days. could neither discern the man's the locality where the theft took Its importance is further enhanced of the League generally. So far has again gone to Haiphong, from practicable to study which port she is expected to re- face, nor the number of men en-place, and the photographs were by the near passage of the Péhan as it was gaged in the attempt.

MACAO TRAGEDY -

MOTHER AND SON KILLED.

found. The rickshe was discover-Railway.]

ed across the road, on the reclama- tion ground.

The complainanti

identified the defendant as the coolie who pulled the ricksha he hired. Questioned by Mr. Lindseli,

STERN NOTE.

complainant said he did not see the RUSSIA STILL THREATENING,

Evidence was given by a Chinese]

Our Matas correspondent recoolle throw the wallet away. 'ports a double, tragedy as having

occurred on the 9th instant.

enforce.

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ប ០ Newspaper heading: "Harness~ < them at this stage, the issues in turn to Whampoa on the 14th in-ing the Bovern." Must be getting volved were receiving the careful stant.

frisky in his retirement. consideration of the British Government. If it were possible for him to make a further statement| before he left to attend the Coun-

he felt sure it would be recognis

in March, he would do so, but

ed that in a matter which was to

Riga, Feb. 11. be the subject of debate and deal-!

OPIUM HAUL.

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The laat word" in fashion is

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A parking space in Hongkong is where you leave your car to have its tail light knocked off.

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advertisement:

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"The modern poot doesn't look

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like one, says a literary mag-

Amongst the New Year Hon.

wo notice the name of Dancing Must Stop Strrrp at Diwan Bahadur Tinnevelly

Wo don't know Nellaiyappa Pillai Sivagnanam Midnight." Pillai Avargal. We shouldn't what the fourth word means, but like to have to write him more wo are certain that it couldn't be the noise caused by a gentleman constable and Sergt. Roze:kwy. M. Borkusevitch, the Soviet re-sion by the Council and the AR- 'Acting on information, a party than once a week.

dancer stopping on his partner's OD It appears that four Chinese, The latter said the defendant!

dress each armed with a big knife, enter might have thrown the wallet into presentative at Riga has handed sembly of the League and upon of revenue officers, under R. 0:

Probably the golfer who man- of opinion Lanigan, carried out a raid on No. aged to hit a motor-car at Happy ed a house, and, after enquiring the rickaha, and, while being chas-the Latvian Foreign Minister which dilference8

against the might at frat exist, it was desir- from a woman whore her husband ed, a confederate could have taken Note, protesting was, stabbed her and her eight- the ricksha away and obtained the failure of the Latvian Government able that full weight should be 464, Shanghai Street, yesterday Valloy was determined to give a

azine. A casual glance at his 口口 year-old son to death. A servant wallet. Another common trick to reply to the Soviet demand that given to the feeling which might and seized a quantity of leit the ball a really long drive.

output convinoos us that he and another boy, aged four years. was for the coolie to suddenly Soviet representatives shall parti-be found to prevail in these bodies opium, valued at $968

According to a contemporary's doesn't write like one, either. and throw the cipate in the investigations into and to arguments which might be were also stabbed, but not serious drop the shafts,

A mala occupant of the floor Cheung Chan notes, a missionary passenger out, but apparently this the murder of a Soviet courier adduced in their discussions. It was taken into custody and on be reached on the previous Sunday There is no truth the ruin- was not done,

named Nette. The Note accusça would defeat the whole object of At the time, the husband was ea

The defendant denied the charge, the Latvian Government of un-such common consultation and Ing charged with possession of 104 on "The Unfenced Life. Must our that the Canton Navy has have had a rough trip across. gone into dookto have her boilera the second floor, and on hearing the and said he was running with some willingness to clear up the cir destroy the usefulness and influence tales of prepared oplum and 68

cleaned, rolee he came downstairs to find other people, when he was stopped. cumstances, of the attack, declar of the League If representatives of taeis of raw oplum, at the Kowloon There was a large attendance of that his wife and son had been bru-He alleged the complainant tried ing that unless a Boviet repre- this and other countries were k tally done to death. The intruders to hit him, and becoming frighton sentative is given every facility to bound in advance by rigid instruc Magistracy this morning, the de-local Scotsmen at a musical de We can only assume that

Frondant Admitted both charges and monstration this we

week. It looks many ventilators on! investigate the affair the Soviet tions which wontal dreng

17.

a by that time disappeared.ed, he ran away,

that revenge is the 170K 722