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MURDER CHARGE.

SEQUEL TO KOWLOON CITY:: TRAGEDY.

After being arrested in connec tion with the murder of a Kowloon club caretaker. and accountant named Ip Sui-po, a Chinese tried to make a rope with some clothes and hang himself at Kowloon City Police Station, according to Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, Assistant Attorney General, when he outlined the facts

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY DECEMBER

MIXED GRILL By A Merry Miscellany

Ashley Sterne

I learn with the greatest dismay that the exceedingly depressing social function known as the "musical evening is being re- of the caso, at the Kowloon Magis-vived this winter. I know what tracy yesterday afternoon before that means. I shall have to listen Mr. T. W. Ainsworth, when the man countless times to Rachmaninoff's was charged with murder.

celebrated "preludo" performed by

can get out of him." Thus а writer in a current journal, and as I am feeling very bitter against the sex at the moment, all the aeven flances I collected at the scaside "last August having now thrown me over (add if I spout sixpence in butterscotch for them

am half inclined to agree with him. So here goes:-

Mr. Whyte Smith said the decens-young ladies who so zealously ob-1 must have spent a shilling),-1 ed was the accountant, and care-serve the Scriptural injunction anot taker of the Shek Zing Club, with to let their left hand know what premises on the second floor of No. their right hand doeth. I shall 19 Cheong On Streat, Kowloon City, have to endure scores of perfor which was patronised by men work-mances of "I'll sing thee songs of ing on 'American steamers. A de- Araby" exhaled by wobbly amate- livery boy got no reply from the ur tenors who invariably side-slip "Club at 10 a.m. on November 16th,

and no-one answered when he re- turned an hour and a half later. Another boy called at 12:20 a.m. and ho likewise received no reply. Both boys noticed a chopper lying on the landing. Members of the Club in vestigated, and they found a light!! still burning, and the deceased undor the bed with his throat curta

From the peculiar position of the dead man it was surmised that he took, shelter under the bed, but his assallant took the boards from the bed and eut his throat by hacking downwards.

on their top-notes. Ishall have to writhe in dumb, agony while good-" ness knows how many sweet young things who have apparently, been" studying the violin on the corres When arrested the prisoner was pondence-system wall their way found to be wearing a singlet mark-through "musical evening" ed with "Sul Po" in Chinese charac-freshments-claret-cup so weak tera, and other clothes that did not that it can scarcely trickle out of belong to him. The prisoner was the jug, and meringues so strong a member of the club and was there that you have to crack 'em in the on the day of the alleged murdor.

After medical evidence had been taken the case was adjourned.

NICARAGUA'S CONFLICT.

MEXICAN AND AMERICAN INFLUENCES.

Washington, Dec. 30.

re-

door before you can get the cream. out. Why doesn't Signor Marconi invent wireless pianos, stringless fiddles, tenors?

and

vocal-chordless

"Oh, absence makes the heart grow

fond!'

How oft we've heard that adagol But does it still hold good to-day- In this wild, whirling, madage,

When modern girls with modern

minds

Display no deep affections,

And heed affairs of the heart far

less

Than they do their coniplexions?

I'd like to think I could believe Still in the good old maxim,

That love of maid for man grow'd'

more

The longer that she lacks him. But, ol, I fear the bare, cold truth: Amounts to this in essencet. Absence may make the heart grow

fond, But not so much as presents!

That famous astronomer. Pro- fessor Evans Gayzer, is just back from Mexico, whither he went át

the end of October in order to ob serve Mars from the top of Popo- catépetl. He has made some truly this 'most fascinating planet, - | remarkable discoveries concerning which will be incorporated in a paper which he is shortly to read before the Society for Being Kind. to Dormice. Amongst other things he has definitely proved that the Martian canals have lock- gates and towing-paths, and that

Great surprise scems to have been expressed in boxing circles by the fact, confided by Gene Tun-the red colour of the planet is dué ney to an interviewer, that he is

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to the huge plantations of toma- toos which flourish there. From student of Church History. well, there certainly isn't much the observations he has made- connection between Church His too highly technical to describe tory and boxing (unless you count here he is convinced that Mars offertory-boxing), but I really is fababited, but with a curious. While the troops of the Liberal don't see anything to be surprised type of individual that walks back- loader, Sacasa, continue to forget. Surely they don't expect Tun-wards, is left-handed, sings falset- ahead in the interior of Nicaragua,ney to read nothing but "Punch,"to, and lives entirely upon jujubes

and baking power. threatching Important strategical and other literature suggestive of Consorvative positions, officials of his profession? As reasonably the State Department, in face of might they expect dentists to con- an avalanche of wide-flung protests fine their reading to the Drill and widely divergent opinions, Manital, and turf commission- maintain their declared policy of agents to "The Ring and the.

Book" protecting American lives and pro- perty.

The newspapers are full of Nica- ragua news and do not attempt to conceal the fact that the vital issue is whether the United States or Mexico is to be supreme in Cen- tral Amorica.

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I was reading the other day about an Italian engineer who claims to have invented a new type of aeroplane capable of flying at the rate of 200 miles an hour for an extended period. Well, if only this extended period can bo made so long as 20 hours, do you' A cable from governmental sources at Managua, accuses Mexico realise, my hearties, that one may of actively assisting the Liberals soon be able to leave London at by supplying arms and funds.noon and arrive at, say, Bombay, Meanwhile a representative of the in time for breakfast next morn Nicaraguan Liberals in Mexico has Ling? For the distance from Lon- made the statement that Sacasa is don to Bombay is only a matter of virtually a prisoner in the hands of 4,000 miles us the crow flles (pro- the American Admiral Lattimer.at vided crows ever do fly from Lon- Puerto Cabezas. Other messages, don to Bombay, which seems quite appealing for the support of Sacasa likely); and since by a curious have been circulated throughout coincidence the distance from Bombay to London is exactly the Latin America.--Reuter's American

same, the feturn journey can bo Service.

performed with equal rapidity. In this event I can see week-end- ing becoming a hobby of mine. I

“SALLY.”

BRIGHT PICTURE AT THE QUEEN'S

OBSCURE INDUSTRIES. Flowerpot Perforating.

The difficult work of inserting the holes in the bottoms of flower- pôts is a trade that necessitates the exercise of the utmost care, as in the hands of a slovenly or indifferent workman there is a great risk of the flowerpot fall- ing through its own hole and smashing. By means of the most delicate mathematical instruments the exact centre of the base is nacertained, and while the flower- pot is still in a semi-molten" con-

dition a small disc is cut out by hand with the help of a frelsaw.

have often been invited by myThe efficacy of the hole is then friend the Jam of Plumandapul, to pay him a visit during the Bom- bay duck shooting season, but have never yet been able to spare the time to get any nearer Bombay Colleen Moore, vivacious,, mis-than the end of Margate pier. chievous and extremely versatile figures prominently in the First

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tested by pouring into the flower- pot a mixture of ginger-beer, Copy- ing-ink, and mercury, in which u small quantity of Epsom salts has been dissolved. If properly cut? the liquid runs out, and the hole is then permanently fixed to the flowerpot with fish-glue. In China. a somewhat different method is employed, the holes being made first and the flowerpota subse-

"The mind of the modern girl National film, Sally," now show-is incapable of any lasting affec- ing at the Queen's Theatre. This tion. Separate her from her 'man is the film version of the popular and she never gives him a thought. Broadway musical comedy of the She only likes him for what shequently moulded round them. name, and it has been splendidly

adapted for the screen.

It was

shown here for the first tipic yes- NICARAGUAN TANGLE.

terday and everybody who saw it expressed great delight with what

is an admirably-chosen picture for the holiday season.

The title role is taken by Colleen Moore, and she is a great success, whether as the drudge in the foundling home or the gay lady masquerading as a famous. Rus- Bian dancer. Her acting is per- Tect throughout. Leon Errol also, greatly adds to the fun of the picture by his whimsicalities, and ho's as unsteady as ever on his fect. Liby'd Hughes figures.in another of the big parts, and is excellent.

ARGENTINE PRESS

EXPRESSES OPINION.

Buenos Aires, Dec. 30,

A section of the press disap proves of United States Interven-1 tion in Nicaragua. '

THE IPOH FLOODS.

HALF A MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE DONE.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Singapore, Dec. 30..

The rain censed at Ipoh to-day Jose Leon Suarez, Professor of after a continuous downpour since International Law, describes it as Sunday. The floods are subsiding, an unjustifiable military action The damage done is estimated at

grave character-Reuter's half a million dollars. American Service.

of

A Censorship.

In the Ipoh district the mines and estates are not working and some of the mines have: boon

Managua, Dec. 30. seriously damaged.

It is reported that the United States naval authorities have "es-

Jerusalem, Det, 30.- There are some fine spectacular

Doctor Alexander Goldstein will scenes in the picture, notably tablished a censorship in the dio start for a tour of Australia and of Puerto Cabezas New Zealand in January, visiting dome beautiful coloured ballet tricts numbers. If you want a good | Rio Grande and El Gallo, India and the Dutch Indies on

route-Reuter laugh, see "Sally."

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