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BANK LOAN CASE.

JUDGMENT FOR MOXON AND TAYLOR.

JUDGE & LAMMERTS.

of Messrs. Moxon and Taylor, in

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$50 PER ANNUH

SANITARY BOARD EUROPEAN'S ATTEMPTED CHINESE LABOUR.

FOUNDED 1881

No 21.800

MORE ATTEMPTED ARSON.

一拜禮

二十月四类港香:

MONDAY,

APRIL 12

1926. 日一初月三

SINGLE: COFY IS CENTE

CHINA OUTLOOK,

SEQUEL TO FLAT

DISPUTE

SECOND CASE WITHIN

WEEK..

HOW CHANGES AFFECT CANTON

JUDGMENT FOR EUROPEAN TENANT.

THIS AFTERNOON'S ELECTION.

LUCKY DISCOVERY.

MORE ENEMIES.

In view of the startling develop-

QUESTION OF DAMAGES.

Judgment in a fat dispute in

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a

SUICIDE.

JOURNALIST'S FIT OF DEPRESSION..

PENANG SENSATION.

European circles in Penang (says A great sensation was caused in

ASPECTS OF STRAITS PROBLEM.

REFORM NEEDED.

8,000 Chinese" to Singapore in one Four Immigrant ships brought

The Chief Justice, 3lr Honry space of a few days, police head- For the second time within the

WHO MAY VOTE. Gollan, gave judgment in favour quarters have received a report ments in Peking, resulting in the which Mr. J. Brook qued. Mr. H. K. in the Supreme Court building, This afternoon, at the Reglatry. of an attempt at arson. their claim against the Man Chuen flast week in the same street, over party, a speech made at a meeting Wood, in the Summary Court this

Following a similar occurrence capitulation of the Kuuminchun Lee was delivered by Mr. Justice an election is to take place for [the Singapore Free Press), when

day this week, says the Telegraph Bank, in the Supreme Court this the week-end police attention hus of the Committee of Imorning,

Political

morning, when a decision in famember of the Sanitary Board, in the news spread that Mr. J. H. B. been called to a mysterious at Affairs in Canton by General Tum

correspondent, writing under date vour of the plaintiff was given. place of Mr. C. G. Alabaster, who

Smith, lato assistant oditor of the The judgment, which was

tempt to set No. 52 D'Aguilar |

The plaintiff alleged that the de- le not seeking re-election.

of March 3rd) and, while this must. Straite Echo, had attempted to be a local record, the batches of lengthy one, stated that the plain-being pursued as in the previous at the moment. The meeting tookable furniture were provided. This being Dr. F. M. G. Ozorio (who Street afire, the same method Yen-kai is particularly interesting fendant agreed to rent a flat at tiffs were members of the Hong-case--the use of paper soaked in place on the 8th instant, and, in was said to have been done, when has previously served three terms

a rent of $100 per month, if suita

There are two candidates, these commit suicide by cutting his immigrants arriving from South throat with a knife. On enquiries China have been both large and kong Stack Exchange, and sued the kerosine. While the proprietor

being made the news was found of a small shop in the ground the absence of Mr. Wang Ching-the defendant refused to take pos-on the Board) and Dr. S. C. Ha defendants, who carried on bust-floor of this building was in the wai, General Tan Yon-kai presided. son of the fiat. The claim was (who is standing for the first

frequent for many months past. to be true.

Last year no fewer than 214,979 pass as bankers at 18, Queen's cookhouse, he was alarmed by the

for $100, being one month's rent,

It appears from statements Chinese came to this country, and Road Central, to recover the sum sight of dense smoke enveloping: In the course of his speech, the and a similar amount in lieu of time). The election starts at made by one of the inmates of the that is the highest figure since 1918, of $37,600, alleged to be money lent, and, on going out to investigate, litical situation of the country is

the front portion of the premises, Chairman said:"The present po-notice. on. June 6th, 1925, together with he found that the woodwork of

In his Lordship's view the de-close at 5.30 p.m.

4 p.r, and the ballot-boxes will house at which Mr. Smith resided, the unsettled conditions in South fendant became a tenant of the

that he had had fits of depression China, coupled with the unlimited. Interest thereon.

TERRIBLE EXPLOSION,

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the staircase was being threaten-Practically unchanged, despite the plaintiff on February 1st, with the Those untitled to vote are all sometimes and was talking about opportunities for employment la The defendants, in their state of paper,

ed by flames from a burning mass fact that the Kuominchun has reliability of payment of rent. Halpersons included in either of the going home very soon when he British Malaya consequent upon ment of defence, denied the loan rial, well soaked in oil, had been

Apparently the mate-tired from the field of strife in gave no notice to quit, and repudi-two jurors lists referred to in see-suddenly seized, a small knife the rubber boom, being the factors or any agreement to pay interest pushed through a rather large compliance with General Wong

tion 7 (3; of the Jury Ordinance, and cut his throat. The Inmate responsible for this influx. aperture in the staircase Into the Sze-chun's appeal for a peaceful

1987; (b) all persons who are by of the house, who was present,

The Secretary for Chinese section 4 of the Jury, Ordinance, saw the act and forcibly snatched Affairs records in his annual report 1887, declared to be liable to serve the knife from Smith's hand after that "despite the fact that Swatow and Canton wore for all practical ļas jurors: provided that no per- he had succeeded in cutting one json who hold any office or situa-side of his throat.

purposes closed ports during the tion of emolument under the

last six months of the year, intend- The police were informed and Crown shall be entitled to form Mr. Smith was removed to the

ing Immigrants from these ports part of the electorate; and (0) Hospital where he now lies under routes and he adds, "there is all persons of sound mind who guard. His condition is not conson to believe that immigration vis have preply been included in sidered to be serious at present Bangkok which

Emount.

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Messrs. G. P. and H. A. Lammert.

CANTON AFFAIRS.

ORDER TO MILITARY OFFICERS.

Mr. H. A. Lammert informed Chan court-martialled.

were not in

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enemies.

Fifty Casualties.

New York, April 11. A

message from Port Arthur, Texas, says that 20 were killed and 30 injured by an explosion on an oil tanker, which was loading ninety thousand gallons of petrol. Reuter's American Service.

sithes of quaduror's lets but have been Terved therefrom pr

1) unofficial members of the

Executive or Council;

Legislative

ARCTIC AIRSHIP.

ARRIVES AT PULHAM, ENGLAND.

managed to leave China by devious

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considerable scale.) That mon thab many Immigrants got into country, without any supervision whatever, but in any case little falth is placed in the cursory. examination which takes place at London, April 11. The airship Norge, piloted by visited by the port health officers, Singapore. The coolie ships are Major Scott who twice crossed the the revenue people, the mering Atlantie in the RS4, landed safely police, and the Chinese Protec

(2) all persons holding any office at Pulham at 5.50 this afternoon. torate agents, but how far the last

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under the Crown: Provided |

Later

or situation of emolument He is expected at Spitzbergan on named are successful In keeping out

April 20.-Reuter.

undesirables is very doubtful, and indeed it seems an impossible task, that no person shall for the The hundreds of groundsmen at since one coolie is very much like purposes of this Ordinance Pulham resembled children chas another. Moreover, hundred of ing a derelict air balloon as the Chinoso come down in junks-woo be deemed to hold an office Norge repeatedly approached the are never included in the immigra« or situation of emolument white signal patch on the ground: tion returns. These returns have under the Crown by reason

It overshot the mark and had to just been published, and show that only of the fact that such casionally the men seizing the tures in 1925 was 119,791, made manoeuvre in wide circles. Oc- the excess of arrivals over depar person is a member of the ropes were lifted in the air six up of 91,115 Chinese, 26,579 Hongkong Volunteer Defence or seven feet before releasing their indians, and the rest immigrants Corps and as such member is hold and it was over two hours from the Dutch Indies. To this or may be entitled to receive and shepherded to her hanger,

before the airship was secured total there must be added 32,000 any pay;"

State-aided Indian labourers and The Norge accomplished hor 10,000 excess of births over deaths. (3) salaried functionaries of non-stop flight in thirty hours and so that the total net gain to the foreign Governments not the fuel would have lasted another population of British. Malaya last carrying on business; ! eight hours. The engineers are year was about 152,000. (4) barristers-at-law and solici-satisfied with the airship's behavi- tors in actual practice, and our and ability to perform the their clerks;

Polar trip-Reuter.

on the amount of claim, so that shop, and it was burning in an solution of the critical situation. the questions arising för decision alarming way when the attention On the other hand, the other mill- were mainly questions of fact. of the shopkeeper was called to The fact

it. With was clearly

the assistance of a tarists have made further advances. police sergeant who was passing As regards Kiangal's situation, tablished that the money the shop at the tim the flameswu Pei-fu and Sun Chuan-fang. Qued for "

actually came were stamped out, and a fire to Into the hands of the defendants the building was averted. have used Tang Zu-derk and Yang the only dispute "being as toment officials are giving their at driving Tong Poon-yan out of his Criminal Investigation Depart-Chec-sang as their instruments inf whether it reached their hands tention to this latest form under such circumstances as to local crime.

Tupanship, and have appointed the entitle the plaintiffs to recover. the

former General to fill the vacancy, With regard to our next neighbour, The case for the plaintiff's was that the money reached the hands

Hunan, although we have sent rated his obligations. The plaintiff account of age or infirmity.

had taken another tenant; and of the defendants through the.

puties and a small force across the

According to the Ordinance, the thus declared the agency of Messrs. G. P..and H. À.

defendant's following persons are not liable to boundary, General Tang Chee-tenaney at an end. His course of Lammert, who were at that time]

sang from the beginning has never action was therefore to recover rent serve as furors, but they may vote members of the Hongkong Stock It is reported from Canton that been in telegraphic communication under the tenancy for February, at to-day's election: Exchange. At the close of the the Military Council, after due with this Government. As to the and for two other days in March, opening of the case for the plain-deliberation at its last meeting, chango of his attitude his verbal and that amount was $106.45, and tifs, it was submitted on behalf of has issued a strict order to all reply was that, forced by clrcum-in addition a sum of damages of the defendants that the statement commanding military officers to stances, he had to submit to the $9.95. His judgment would thore- of claim did not justify any such the effect that hereafter no officer inevitable. At the present me-fore be given for the plaintiff for case being put forward by the in the Army is permitted to re- ment, all the neighbouring pro- $106.45 only and costs, making plaintiffs. His Lordship over-ruled cruit men to fill up vacancies or vinces, generally speaking, are our such amendments that objection.

to increase the forces under his

as might be. The judgment then went on to vested in the Military Council, the home of the Kuomintang, thera

command.

necessary in the writ of summor.s Such power is only. deal with the evidence of Wing which alone is responsible for was an exodus of prodigal sons at damages, he did not see how they

"Referring now to. Kwangtung, for the purpose.

Mr. C. A. S. Russ, defending, said Fook, who at all material times

19 the plaintiff did not claim was the authorised clerk for the Army, Officers found guilty one time, but they are now coming could be awarded. ́

maintaining the organisation of

Commenting on the evidence that of disobeying this order, will be more and more under the wing of His Lordship replied that the the mother organization. Up to month's rent in lieu of notice that his firm could make a loan, Government has sent out to the volutionary aspirations, and his

A further report states that the now, General Chang Kai-shek's - amounted to damages, his Lordship remarked that it was clearly established by the evidence members of the Koumintang.a eir-efforts on that behalf, have not in Lordship amended his judgment, Legal.argument followed, and his of Mr. G. P. Lammert that the firm cular notification giving a list of the least Bagged. Mr. Wong by striking out the question of financial names of those members who are Ching-wai is sick, but it is to be damages and adding after the sum position to advance the amount re-attending the sittings of the 2nd hoped that he will come out of of $106.45 the words "nothing quired by the defendants on June General Meeting of the represen- his seclusion when ho recovers more." 6th. Chan closed with an offer oftatives which is held at Shanghai, from his illness. A few days ago,, $188 for each of 200 Wharf shares, and pronouncing them as enemies the representative of General Feng the prosecution..

Mr. L. D. Turner appeared for which had to be bought back at of the Government. Orders have Yu-siang arrived here. He $1924 for the July settlement falso been issued for the arrest of sent before the withdrawal of the from Mr. Nissim.

anyone indicated in the list with Kuominchun from the field of After dealing with a cheque for the jurisdiction of the Nationalist operation. According to the re- $37,600, the judgment went on to Government. state that the defending counsel;

port of thia representative, Wa Pei-fu has occupiod Honan, and contended that the transaction be- tween Messra. G. P. nad H, A. Lam-

the Kuaminchun has suffered mert and the defendants was a loan

heavy losses. The report that Hongkong (says the N. C. Daily and not a sale, and Tsang suggest-

Ngo Wai-chun was killed in action Netes) hus been trying, to find out ed, in the witness box, that the

la not true. He la now in Shang- how much 'it costs to live. transaction between

hai. him and

of all the Chamber of Commerce Messrs. G. P. and H. A. Lammérc

"The defeat of the "Kuominchun asked the Government whether it was not a loan but a sale. That

New York, April 11.

was due chiefly to the mal-admin- could ascertain through ite various was a remarkable change of front. Several banks in Havana experi: had overtaxed the poople to keep eidered an index figure of the cost istration of Ngo, Wai-chun, who departments what. might be con- Messrs. G. P. and H. A. Lammert enced runs, yesterday, and tho led their bankruptcy petition en Federal Reserve Bank of New York P bis big army, and the people of living. September 9th, and at the morting

Is reported

of Honan rose sending

To this the Government replied, It was stated that Tsang did not $85,000,0000 in currency by special operate with Wa Pel-fu's "No can," but suggested that the train to Keywest, from which place operating against the Kuominchus, Chamber might get some useful the interest had been reduced to the Cuban warship,

1,504, a draft was handed

of European assistants in business to Machado. The Government news-Our revolutionary army, therefore, that such information "would prob

rapid. Bang, who took it away for spapers are re-assuring frantic de-must take a lesson from the dis-ably not be of sufficiently wide concerns." The Chamber replied; ce, returned the next day, and positors who are clamouring for astrous defeat of Ngo Wai-chun and range to be a safe guide. So, ked it.

their money, The judgment dealt with the

follow strictly the tenets of the officially, Hongkong really does not The trouble started in. vidence for the defence of Mr. Marianao suburb of Havana and the Constitution of the Kuomin-

the revolutionary cause prescribed in know what living costs. Isang Chuen-son who asserted the news quickly spread, creating tang. The representative further that the transaction between him a paule among depositors of reported that Feng Ya-hsiang had, and Chan, acting on behalf of the banks. Rumours of a mora from the very beginning of Ngo Messrs. G. P. and H. A. Lammert latest reports say that the panic vised him to be more considerate

torium are officially denied. was one of sale and repurchase, has spread to

The Wal-chun'a regime in Honan, „nd- and was not a loan. His attention Santa

tho citles of

LETED. was called to discrepancies in Reuter's American Servies.

Claxa and Santiagowards tried by every way and on Saturday, and more since, have

in his adalpistration, and after-

Four and a half inches of rain means to persuade Ngo Wal replenished the reservoirs to the chun to desist from his mistaken extent that the Water Authority The forthcoming wedding is efforts were in vain. Feng Yusions so far as Kowloon is concern policy. When he saw that all his has decided to remove the restric The counsel for the de- announced of Surgeon Commdr. falang decided to retire altogether ed from to-morrow tendants had argued that the Royal Naval Hospital to Miss

Geoffrey Palmer Adshead, of the from political life. Therefore, documents in the case tended to Olive May Orme, of No. 515 Thi

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PANIC AMONG HAVANA DEPOSITORS.

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HONGKONG'S IGNORANCE.

ON COST OF LIVING.

First

dispute his Hability to pay. After it will be conveyed to Havana in That was why the conquest of information from the experience

arlier statements, and his Lord- Muip said he could not believe the explanation made by witness for

President nan was so complete and

RAIN'S BENEFITS.

KOWLOON RESTRICTIONS

We are--informed that

(5) persons entitled to practice

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medicine and surgery under

the Medical Registration RESULT OF RAINS. Ordinance, 1884, and personsj entitled to practise dentistry

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under the Dentistry Ordin- SOME LANDSLIDES REPORTED ance, 1914;

(6) editors of daily newspapere.

MOVEMENTS OF POPULATION. The movements of population to and from Malays are really amazing, and must be, without parallel in any other country. South India and South China are inexhaustible reservoirs of cheap labour for the rubber estates, fac-

and while this exploitation of the torles, and mines of this country,

awarming populations of these The Peak district has suffered countries might be denounced by In the Colony, and their in a small way from the heavy Labour politicians as capitalism In staff;

downpour during the week-end, its worst form, Malaya does not. (7) chemists and draggists number of landslides and sub- feel in the least ashamed of itself for its use of the Indian and actually carrying on bust-aidences having been reported, ness as such;

The most serious of these, from Chinese coolle On the contrary, (8) clergymen of the Church of the viewpoint of damage done, the benefit which this country is England, Roman Catholle would appear to have occurred at stricken and over-populated areas conferring upon the fainine- .priests; ministers of any the upper part of Stubbe Road from which our immigrants come congregation of Protestant Here for a distance of about thirty is incalculable. Not only are we dissenters or of Jews func-feet the side of the road has sub-providing work at reasonable rates tioning in the Colony;"

sided down the cutting, but fortu-af pay for men who were hard put

the

(9) masters of any school other nately this has not extended for to keep from starvation In their than a vernacular school in more than two or three feet at native villages, but the money that Colony; professora, parta, leaving the road still avail-goes back to those same villages lecturers, and other academic able for the use of motor traffic. Officers of the University of

from Malaya must be very con- Other slides have occurred in aiderable indeed. The Indian Hongkong

Mount Kellett Road, Flankett coolie, particularly, is often half- (10) officers employed on full pay Road and Craigmin Road, where starved when he boards the British in the naval or military falls of earth across the roadway India steamer at Madras or Nega- Borvice of His Majesty'; have impeded the use of the roads patam, and after he has spent a (11) masters of steamers and to some extent,

lazy fortnight in the

quarantine local pilots and

depot at Governments-expense he frequently has to be sent to the estate hospital and fattened up. before he can bo put to work. His life on the annnatti Jotive

(13) all officers and non-content-

doned officers, of the Hong- An official communique Issued kong Voluntaar: Defence in Canton announces the disc earna, and such other ericiant missal of Ow Yang-gark, Vide. Haze President of the Naval College at