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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927.

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DAY BY DAY.

The Empress of Asia, which left Woosung, at 1. p.m. to-day, is date here on Thursday.

Three further Chinese cases of small-pox were notified yesterday,

as well as one British caso of

typhoid.

ACCOUNTANT GAGGED.

The Very Idea!

counsel

Voeux Road West, of a bunch of koys, or, alternatively, assaulted Lö with intent to rob him. Mr. H. K.

"Now, you boys," he said, Holmes prosecuted for the Crown,

"always remember that education and the prisoner, who pleaded like education Take arithmetic. is a great thing. There's nothing- "Not Guilty," was not represented.

YOU dication of friendship has been MUST made to a section of the Chinese OWN IT which has maligned and misrepre

TIME 18 THE OLDEST AND MOST CRIMINAL SESSIONS 'TRIAL. sented Britain as no other Chinese INFALLIBLE OF ALL CRITICS,-F political faction has. Could gen-Rousse,

This is a Lancashire rough The Criminal Sessions were condiamond story. It has to do with erosity very well go further?

tinued this morning before the act There is one clausein the Agree to noon to-morrow is:North-cast when a Chinese named LJ Tim was

The local weather forecast 'uping Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, carried him to big success in busi- a man whose native genius had ment regarding the Hankow Con- winds: fresh, One,

ness without much aid of educa- charged for having, with others tion cossion which is of peculiar im-

unknown, on January 28th, 1927, robbed Lo Pak-ping, accountant of prizes at a school. In the event He was asked to distribute the portance and significance. We

the Yee On Company, of 838, Dea he made the usual speech of good refer to the pagagraph which says that the new frangements for the administration of the Concession are to remain in force until such time as arrangements have been negotiated for the amalgamation of the five Haukow Concessions and former Concessions into one Muni- cipal District That would pear to presuppose

the taking of definite steps for such an omal- gamation. Will such steps be taken, and will the French and the Japanese, whose Concessions would be affected by the scheme, be like ly to enter into any such arrange ment? Those are points of the utmost importance now... If the Nationalists want to make it clear that they are not specifically anti- British in their policies, it would appear incumbent on them to make

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representations to the French and Japanese Governments with a view

disease

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neven and thon

Mr. Holmes said on the day in Through education we learn that fable

The only case of noti question the accountant was alt-twice two make four, that twice

reported toting in the shop with a foki named six make. twelve, that the Medical Omeer of Health Wong Taoi, when the prisoner en-

sevens make imported case of diphtheria. over the week-end was one British tered the shop and told Wong Teol

there's geography." that a clansman of his bad been in- cordingly, the foki went to the tea- jured in a tenshop.near by. Ac phop and the prisoner also went out, but shortly returned and handed a paper to the accountant. paper bore the character "Taoi" and others which were illegible.

A Chinese committed suicide by hanging himself yesterday, in his home at No. 204. Hollywood Road, The body was afterwards removed by the police to the Public Mortuary,

Six Filipino seamen, exhausted and half starved, wero rescued from the top of a capsized banca, par Olongapo, on the morning of January 31, by the U. S. S. S-38, of Submarine Division No. 17, according to reports received at Cavite by Admiral Summer E. W.

Kittelle.

The

"I am the king of my house-

hold,"

Sald he to folks around him. And then the story's very

old-

Hia wife up and crowned

him..

The accountant became suspici- pus ou receiving the paper, which There is a coincidence in the he could not understand, and the fact that Mile. Lavalliers, so well- next thing that happened was that known on the Paris stage, should two other men entered the shop.have decided to become a nun, for and the prisoner produced some-it was to a convent that a more thing from his sleeve which looked famous La Valliere retired whon like a file. He pointed it at Lo she was supplanted by Mme. do and the other two men both pro-Montespan in the affections, of duced knives. They closed the door Louis XIV.: she was a nun for The health returr. for the past and dragged Lo from behind the the last thirty-five years of her. to altering the status of their Con-week shows elevon cases of small- counter into the middle of the life. In the course of that time cessions in Ilankow. Failing such deaths; even of typhoid (two wire and used a piece of wood for taken refuge in a convent "with pox (all Chinese), with seven shop where they secured him with the Montespan herself had also step, the impression will persist each of British, Indlan and China gag. In response to a demand.

pension of half-n-million that the Nationalists are only con ese and one of Japanese), with Lo handed over the keys, and two franca." cerned with wringing concessions two deaths; and four of diphtheriaqf the men then proceeded to open S. A. Noronha and family tender from the British. This is an ax-

(two British and two Chinese), the safe, the third man standing sincere thanks to their relatives,

with one fatality.

guard. and friends for the many "kin pect of the matter which will be expressions of sympathy in their well worth watching, One other!

Finding the door open, robbers recent bereavement, also for point, in conclusion.

entered a hut at Ngautaukok in When M. the Kowloon City district, vester floral tributes sent and attend-

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

W

In the meantime, the foki, being unable to learn of any accident at and returned, and, finding the the teashop, became suspicious

Father, at Kingston: My son. got out of bed when he was asléop and opened the door to the police- man.

ance at the funeral, as well as Eugene Chen last declined to sign day, and carried out a robbery indoor closed, banged upon it. The

Landlord at Clerkenwell to Dr, F. M. G. Ozorio and all the pending Agreement with Mr. the course of which they bound robbers opened the door and ran County Court: After paying no those who called during the ill-O'Malley, he took his stand on the and gagged the inmate, after into the street, the prisoner threa- rent for months my tenant sudden-

throwing eement into his eyes, ness of the late Mrs. S. A. point that Britain was concentrat- Money and property to the value tening the foki with his knife as ly paid two weeks in succession.

of $92 wore stolen. A suspect has he ran past. been arrested.

Noronha.

The

ing troops in Shanghai. There is, however, no reference to this sub- ject in the Agreement now signed. Britain thus retains the right,

Thongkong Telegraph. which she could under no

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927. |

THE HANKOW AGREEMENTS.

The prisoner was Judge Roope-Reeve: That WIS aventually caught in Water probably the result of his win- Street.

ning a sweepstake.

In connection with the forth- During the whole of the time, coming displays by Miss Violet the prisoner was wearing an over- Capell's circum-

pupils, parents and coat, and when he was caught, the friends of the children taking park bunch of keys belonging to the in the display are requested not accountant were found in the to make any presentation of gifts pocket. ". or flowers on Wednesday, 23rd inst, or Saturday, 26th inst., but if they bring anything along to the Matinee on Monday, 28th inst., the same will be handed up.

stances surrender, of disposing of her forces as she sees fit. It may or, may not be necessary to send further troops to Shanghai. That will entirely depend on cir. cumstances; and Britain alone. must decide such matters for her

dictation from no-one.

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It is useless to call for peace and to make for war.Mr. J. R. Clynes.

I am convinced that the 'film exercises a form of hypnotism Mr. Cedric Hardwicko.

When he was charged, the

It is impracticable to keep prisoner said he was told to go matches out of the way of chil to the shop to get money, and Mr. dren. Dr. E. Smith (Shoreditch) Holmes commented that that did Coroner).

not appear to be an admission. I would

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be prepared to The Swedish Consulate General Prisoner had denied the owner-exonerate from guilt a person who At long last, agreements have self. On that point, we can accept in Shanghai is Interested in as-ship of a knife which was picked told a lie to save an innocent life certaining the present where up in the street near the premises. if reasonably sure that not to tell abouts, of the Swedish subject, The prisoner alleged that the a lie would involve loss of life.-- Count Goran H.H.D. Falkenberg, charge was trumped up because The Bishop of Southwell. born in 1904. He left Sweden in he had arranged to borrow money 1923 and is known to have been from the accountant. living in Brisbane, Australia, some

Six fire engines, forty, fremen, time during 1924.

The jury returned a verdict of a large number of police, and a tion is wanted owing to his being ed sentence of five years' hard graphers-these forces

The informia "Guilty," and his Lordship impos- crowd of reporters and photo- the heir of his late father.

hastily gathered in response to an alarm of fire at the Salford Docka re-... cently, only to find, on arrival on the scene, that a man had singed his hair by accident, and a com- panion had in a panic, rung the fire alarm bell.

came on to Pe-

labour.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE VOLUNTEERS.

To the Editor of the Hongkong.

Telegraph.]

The movement for Brighter Bazaars is all very well, but in the case of the one at Mitcham where, behind the placard, "A Sir,-Your appeal in Saturday's Horrible Murder," "people are fasue, calling on the young mer of offered a prize for pointing, out the Colony to join the local De- (in the grounds of a doll's house) fence Corps, is sure to meet with the exact spot at which the immediate response, but why con- murdor took place," the bright- fine your remarks to the "young ness tends to become lurid. Some men?" In point of fact, haven't distinction ought to be observed, the taipans of this Colony far betweon the news of the World 128.94 more personal property to protect and the news of the Church. .25.224 than the "new arrivals" in case .20.46% any trouble were to arise here?

EXCHANGE RATES.

London, Feb. 21.

been signed by Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Eugene Chen in regard to the future status of the British Con- cessions at Hankow and Kiukiang.

A Wise Step. Yesterday, we gave the text of

Thero is not the slightest doubt of the value of the idea of holding these understandings, and it will

an agricultural show for the en- be seen

therefrom that Britain Couragement, of farmers and pro- has acted with the utmost mag-duce-raisers in the New Territory The death has occurred at the nanimity in the matter. In point to produce only the best possible. residence of Mr. C. A. Balhatchet of fact, there was no obligation held at Lady He Tung's experi-T. Andrews, of Paterson, Simons The first meeting of the Committee, in Leith Street, Penang, of Mr. J. runting on the British Government mental farm at, Sheung Shui on and Co., Ltd., Singapore, Deceas- to surrender its rights in these Saturday, was itself a very produced had been ill for some time and Concessions. Its position in the tive one, for it brought very de- had been on leave. He had been

finite results A show is going to to Sumatra and matter was quite clear-the Con- be held next December at Sheung nang, with the hope of regaining cessions were held under Treaty Shui, and Committees have been his health. He was 46 years old with the Government of China, and appointed. As an initial venture, and was for a long time connected

the show is going to be confined to with Paterson, Simons Britain would have been quite jus- vegetables, fruits, grain, flowers, pore.

at Singa- tified, on a strictly legal point, roots and melons, and it might also to have retained control of the be' possible to include classes for Concessions until such time as

pigs and fowls. Anyone who is at all acquainted with the New Ter- negotiations could be entered into: ritarigs cannot fail to realise the for a revision of the Treaty rights, very large potentialities of the with a Government truly represent- of view and also, owing to the com- district from an agriculutral point ing the whole of China. The fact parative poverty of the farming Bes

Paris

Genova Berlin that no such Government exists to class and the old-fashioned methods Osto day has not, however, deterred Bri- of cultivation, that only a propor- Helsingfors tain from completing an agreement tion of what would otherwise be Athens

possible is now raised. Both ng Bombay with the Nationalists, and the ex-regards quantity and quality there Brass

Yokohama Brussels planation of this is to be found in is lots of room for improvement in Milan the fact that such procedure is in it is the laudable desire, of those Frago

the live stock and crops raised, and Copenhagen line-with-the British policy of ad who are organising the forthcom-00

Lisbon justing differences, as far as posing show to bring about an in- Hongkong sible, with such authorities as provement. There are very many New York

subsidiary questions involved in Amsterdam happen to be in control of regions the main problem of bringing about Stockholm where those differences arise. that improvement, and it is grati-ve That in itself is a most liberal andfying to see that the newly-formed Rio

Committee is very much alive. to Shangbal generous policy, and its observance them. The value of the Now Tux-Silvor, (apot} in the case of Hankow and Klu-ritories as a source of food supply Sliver (forward)

"Look, ma," he cried, excitedly. He's kiang should convince the Nation. to Hongkong has never been fully

themselves and give the necessary "Look at that funny fish!. load to their staffs. Then, and got a flat tyre!” alists of the bona fides of recent exploited and it is little short of

wasteful to allow out-of-dato Soveral train carriage ventila only then, will they be in a posi- British declarations to respect methods and laferior stocks to coptors were broken at Ealing Broad-tion to urge others to join, In Chinese national aspirations. Intinue their effects of limitation. way Station by a amoke chute these days of trade depression, the deed, we go so far as to say that her should be much generous and which became detached from the plea of too much work does not stitution of Engineers and Ship-

enthusiastic support for those who | bridge over the main line.

apply.

builders of, Hongkong will take no other Power has shown such have taken up the work of educa-

What's that? Haven't got place in the Rooms on Friday, tangible proofs "of friendship to tion and inspiration among the Only a few days after receiving Company? Thon let them got March 11, at 8 pm. His Excel- the Chinese as Britain has; and, farmers and village folk, and we congratulations from the King on together and form a Talpans' lency The Governor, Sir Cecil Cle-

shall hope to see the movement completing her 100th year, Mrs. | Company Yours, etc.,

menti, K.C.M.G, the Hon. Přesi- what is more significant still, is started on Saturday carried to a Mary Garner, of Coningsby, Lines,

C. G. M dont, has intimated his intention of the fact that this very dofinite in very successful conclusion.

-died-yesterday.

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Joan of Arc was.cannonized by .34,871 all to the good, but it is no ex- Bernard Shaw. 109.15/10cuse why they, should not join up Lipton is the capital of Ceylon. .19.20 again at a time when every man Theseus begged Minos to try 2.39/61 counts. I submit that a man, Irand kill the labyrinth. 47.8/32 respective of age, who is able to

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Hongkong. Feb 21st, 1927,

For the first time in his life Bobby aaw a flounder.

The annual Dinner of the In-