1927-03-14 — Page 7

TROUBLE IN COURT.

WOMAN CREATES A DISTURBANCE.

After being fined, with several ofisura, for trespassing-on- Gav ornment plantation near Cheung Sha Wan, a woman villager was stated to have accused the forest gaurds of perjury on her leaving the Court. The woman had raised her voice to such a tone that the Kowloon Magistrate was Interrupted in the pursuance of his duties,

The woman was brought back into Court, when she further accused the Court constable of assaulting her. Inspector Me- Waltor, however, was standing on the Magistracy verandah and contradicted the woman's state- ment.

His Worship fined the woman, who had already been mulcted in a fine of $15 for trespassing, a further $10 for creating a diatur bance within the precincts of the

Court.

CHINESE STEAMER

terday.

DETAINED.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

AFTER 20 YEARS.

SHIPPING FAILURE

RECALLED.

A SINGAPORE DISCHARGE.

com-

The failure of an Important shipping company as far back as 1905, and the connection of the Java late Oci Tiong Ham, tho multi-millionaire, with that pany were recalled in the Bank- ruptcy Court at Singapore last week, before Mr. Justice Dense, when Tan Hup Seng, the former managing director of the company ship, and now a chinchew on appeared to ask for his discharge from bankruptcy,

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"THE BETTER 'OLE."

FOR THE SERVICES.

The new Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. in Peking Road, Kow loon, was opened yesterday, and thus, within the comparative unort time which has elapsed since it was known that corlalu battalions of the Shanghai Defence Force would be quartered in Hongkong, two new places of entertainment | and recreation for the troops have been inaugurated.

This not only speaks must for the generosity of those who have helped by gifts of equipment of various kinds, but for the band of workora responsible for establishment and fitting up of the new promises.

the

The Official Assignen, in his The new Y.M.C.A." building on report, said that the bankrupt, was the Hongkong side is situated in formerly a partner in the firm of Queen's Building and is known as Tap Kim Tian and Co., which the "Cheer O" Y.M.C.A., and its went bankrupt in 1905. That counterpurt on the Peninsula has firm had been in existence for the appropriate title of "The thirty or forty years, but the Better Ole. The godown which bankrupt joined it in 1808, when has been secured in Peking Road he was worth $50,000. The three is ideal for the purpose" and it brothers who owned the firm decided to join forces with one will now form a centre where T. C. Boogardt, a shipowner, and troops will be provided with en- tertainments, reading, writing and they formed a private company

refreshment facilities. called Tan Kim Tian and Co.

Money Raised.

Excellent Facilities.

ARMED SOLDIERS ON BOARD.

The bankrupt nad his two bro-

The Batter Qle" is almost thers raised money on their shares twice as large as the majority of in order to cover mortgages. In "Bound for Pukhoi and Hoihow,

Y.M.C.A. centres erected during 1903 the company went into the Chinese steamer Limehow has

the war. Adequato canteen fach been detained in Hongkong since voluntary liquidation, and the her arrival here from Canton yes-bankrupt and his brothers decided ties have been provided and it is to risk their all on the ships interesting to note that the tea- belonging to the company. The pot method and not the urn On enquiries, a Telegraph re-purchase prize of the ships was method will be employed in tea. porter learned this morning that $700,000. The company was making. her detention for the time being liquidated at $82 per share, but in port has been necessitated by the the brothers had to pay out prac- fact that armed Chinese soldiers fenily all they realised for their are on board.

shares in payment of previous mortgages and charges.

The fact of their embarkation and their presence on board with arma is stated not to have been reported to the Captain until the Limehow was well on her way be tween Canton and Hongkong. On arrival here, the local police au- thuritics tock charge of the steamer, while investigations are

proceeding,

The Limehow iu Chinese steamer. During the period of the boycott last year. she omitted -Hongkong from her ports of call.

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BAGUIO QUAKE.

·HOTEL RESIDENTS AWAKENED.

A Hongkong resident who is short holiday at spending a Baguio, writes that a rather alarm ing earthquake shock was experi- enced there during the night of March 6th.

le states that residents at the awakened at Hotel Pues were 12.30 am. to find the hotel rack- ing. "My bed did one or two butk-jumps. This lasted fully 15 seconds, and five, seconds or so later there was a second shock lasting only a few seconds and much less severe than the first. An old residledt tells me that he bás experienced several quakes here during the past 15 but that last night'e was the most severe for a very long time:"

years,

WORKMAN'S THEFT.

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FITTINGS FROM PENINSULĄ HOTEL.

Joon magistracy. this morning.

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Desks get out with writing materials are also provided and a timely notice on the wall acts as a reminder that people at Home are interested in the doings of the troops in the Far East. Writing materials are provided free, of course, and arrangements have also been made for the sale stamps.

of

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LATE DR. SUN, ·

HONGKONG ANNIVERSARY

OBSERVANCES.

Many thousands of Chinese visited Lee Gardens on Saturday, the second anniversary of the death of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, where special observances to mark the event were held.

H.M.S. ARGUS ARRIVES.

STRANGE AIRGRAFT.

CARRIER.

Ferhaps the strangest-looking craft ever to come into Hongkong the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Argus-arrived on Saturday after- roon and buoyed at No. Ai berth, which is in the track of the Kow- The main feature of the obser- loon ferry service, thus giving vances was a memorial service, residents a close-up view of the held in the theatre, over which unusual ship. Mr. Wong Tong presided. On the With no funnel, with a huge stage there was a large portrait, flat-top deck unrelieved by a of the late Dr. Sun, and after those bridge, and with her sides tower- present had made three bowling to a phenomenal height, the thereto, there was a period of vessel is of weird design, though three minutes' silence, followed. by obviously suited to her function the reading of Dr. Sun's last will of carrying acroplanes and provid and testament.

Then a numbering a launching deck for them.. of Chinese girl students rendered

The Argus left Portsmouth on songs and a Chinese National An-February 21, 50 far as can be as- them was sung, this being follow-cortained, and has made the pas- ed by the shouting of slogans. Bage out in approximately three There were no specches delivered, weeks,

Representatives of the police and the Secretariat of Chincae Affairs were present.

Singapore Incident.

Commanded by Captain A. R. Palmer, she was recently com- missioned after a year in dock- yard hands for alterations. Be- gun in 1914 as a liner for an Itn- ilan firm, and acquired by the

six and injured eleven Chinese,ommodation on board for 20 sero- The police fired vice and killed Navy in 1916 or conversion into an aircraft-carrier, thero la ac- when crowds got out of hand,

The original intention was that the late Oel Tiong Ham, who was a rich towkay of Samarang, should join the brothers 45 partner and contelbate some $450,000. but nothing was obtained from Other tables are provided for him in writing, and after the reading purposes and these are afer of $700,000 had been made wall filled with periodicals of for the ships Oel Tiong Ham ap which an excellent supply has peared to have refused to join asbeen obtained. A pile of gramo- partner. Od Tiong Ham adphone records gives an indication vaned the brothers $150,000 on that the troops will not lack muste. a mortgage of their ships, and the One of the features of the "Better balance of the $700,000 was raised Ole," however, is the large stage by charging all their available which has been made and the seat- ing accomodation available for a Vague Control.

large number of men for concerts bankrupt became the and entertainments, managing director of the new The new premises are extreme- firm, but he appeared, as did allly well lighted and everything isang a demonstration to celebrate ished record and at the outbreak the partners, to have exercised being done to ensure that they are

over very vague control

the as cool as possible in summer. accounts click. business," and the not appear to be accurate. The bankrupt had admitted that dock- ing charges amounting to $70,000 per annum "were not entered in the hooks, which consequently showed a profit each year.

The

It appeared that the business was quite unable to carry the very for interest in- heavy charges. volved in the fact that it was Ananced almost entirely with

one

barrowed money. In alone $90,000 was paid out in interest.

THE DRUG TRADE.

THE USE OF COPENHAGEN.

Singapore, Mar. 13,

arising from excitement in attend- planes.

the anniversary of the death ei

of the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen.

Captain Palmer has a distingu-

of the war was the commander of A large party of night scholarship of the focilla based on the 11.M.S. Thames, submarine depot held a procession and blocked the Nore. His seniority as Comman- traffic. A European police in- spector and two constables, trying to Captaincy came in 1917 and in der dates from 1911. Promotion to clear the congestion, were as-1926, prior to his appointment to saulted and were compelled to use the Senior Oficer's Technical their truncheons. The mob later Course, he was in charge of H; M. attempted to rush the polices. Defiance, the torpedo school station and an Inspector was at Devonport. His appointment severely wounded on the head, whereupon the police fired to H. M. S. Argus was unexpected and only made, it is thought, by the stressful exigencies of the period A message from our Singapore which pointed out Captain Palmer correspondent, giving another ver- as the most capable officer in such! sion of the incident, appears on emergency. another page]

London, Mar, 13; The Report of the League of Nations Opium Committee states that the free pers of Copenhagen

considerable anxiety in Runter. year eauses

much as it is extensively used for the illicit despatch of drugs from When the firm failed Oui Tiong European countries and also used Ham bought the ships at an as # convenient transhipment auction through an attorney, and contro. The League Secretariat he later offered a composition of has been instructed to approach twenty per cent. in the bank the Danish Government on the ruptty. His connection with the matter. The Ituport reveals that firm appeared to have been 2 the German police recently dis- little auspicious. The brothers covered the existence of an inter- of the bankrupt were

granted national band of smugglers carry- TOURIST VESSEL TO ARRIVE ember 23, as a tender to II. M. S.

their discharge in 1908 and 1907 ing on a traffic of "almost incre respectively,

Lawyer's Plea.

dible extent." The orders for drugs mostly emanated from the

for their sources of supply.

TO-NIGHT.

the Pacific being marked by heavy

time.

ROBBERY SEQUEL.

CAR SMASHES HAWKER'S STALL.

The Argus is an aircraft-carrier of 14,450 tone with a horse power or 20,000, giving a speed of some- THE “CALIFORNIA." thing better than 20 knots. In the latter part of last year, she was under reconstruction and was commissioned for trials on Nov

Pembroke, having previously been attached to the Atlantic! Air. Dudley Parsons, for the Far East and the operations werenia, which was due in Hongkong Boucher, D. 5. 0.

The tourist vessel s.8. Califor-Fleet. The Commander is M. W. bankrupt, printed out that his conducted chiefly through Copen- elient had been a bankrupt for hagen. It is hoped that a later dis- this morning, will not make port A quantity of pipe fittings, over 21 years and was now and covery by the same police will until to-night, her expected time ulued at $7, formed the subject old man over sixty. He had shed much light on the methods being between 7p.m. and 10 p.m. The California was two daya of a charge of larceny brought been employed as a chiuchew of the contrabandists and also late at Yokohama, the trip across against a workman employed at a boat, and the only reason

the present application was that The Council adopted a resolu-weather. An additional delay at the Peninauin Hotel, who was was prosecuted by Mr. S. Butcher, be- he had become too old to hold tion by Sir Malcolm Delevingne Shanghai has so far prevented the fore Mr. W. Sebofield, at the Kow-that position and he had been requesting the Committee to in vessel from making up the lost

offered

a position ashore at vestigate the measures taken or The defendant, who, pleaded Samarang. He could not accept that might be taken by the govern There are about 650 tourists on On being entled, on Saturday

pl Countries engaged the latter position unless he was that m arrested near Holt's Wharf with granted his discharge. He had in the manufacture and distribu-board, but their stay in Hongkong afternoon, to Bridges Street, where the fittings in his possession. It aid bitterly for the follies of his tion of drugs to keep a check on will be comparatively short, the an armed robbery had just oc- vessel being due to leave herecurred, a party of detectives youth, counsel added. was suggested by the prosecution In reply to his Lordship, who the disposal of drugs to ensure that the defendant had probably pointed out that Oei Tiong Ham's that they are supplied only to again on Wednesday at 8 p.m. travelled in a public motor car To-morrow half the party will which they had commandeered at been collecting the fittings singly connection with the firm had a Delevingne stated that there was will make tours of the Island and

authorised persona, Sir Malcolm visit Macao, while the other half Police Headquarters. for sometime.

On returning half-an-hour later, parently been a suspicious one,

the car crashed" Into a A fine of $26, or three weeks' counsel said that the brothers little information regarding the New Territories. hard labour in default was im-relied upon Del Tiang Ham to join the investigation should begin January 19 and travelling westwards the centre of the roadway source of the druge and urged that' The vessel left New York on stall which was pitched too far to- them as a partner, but he evident- ly did not trust the business, and with the manufacturer or large has already called at Havana, at Staunton Street. The stall Importer and proceed, step by step, Colon, Balboa, Los Angeles, Hilo, was completely smashed, and the only lent them the money on a

through the chain of transactions, Honolulu, Yokohama, Tokyo, Kobe wares scattered over the roadway. mortgage of the assets.

His/Lordship. He seems tontil the leakage is discovered. and Shanghai and from here will It is understood that a suramona

-Reuter. have collared the whole thing.

proceed to Manila, thence to Ba-is being taken against the hawker The Assistant Official Assignee

tavia, Singapore, Rangoon, Cal-for obstruction of the roadway. (Mr. Gibson) did not oppose the

cutta, Colombo, Bombay, Suez, application, and his Lordship

Berlin-Berlin police have re- Calro, Port Said, Haifa, Jeru- Duchess of York has granted the discharge, but sus-vived an ordinance prescribing salem, Athens, Naples, Monaco

drastic penalties for mashing in and Cherbourg. arrived here and a Bulletin statespended it for three months,

guilty, was stated to have been

posed.

DUCHESS OF YORK.

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IS NOW CONVALESCENT.

The

Wellington, March 13.

that her condition fa quite satis- |

factory. The tonsilitis has near-i

the

hawker's

ly subsided but complete rest is THE SAAR DECISION will hereafter run the risk of and Mrs. J. S. Young, Dr. Fran- Hospital and College, in memory

essential to re-establish her

health. She may now be regarded.

us convalescent, and no further

bulletina will be issued.--Reuter,

The Duke Carries, On.

GERMANY NOT PLEASED...

Borlin, March 13.

Sarapul, Russia-Complaining

rem

An anonymous gift of 1,000 German capital. Cavaliera The passengers include Miss guineas has been received by the who approach unfamiliar ladies Teenie Belle Colbert, Professor Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples' aloning for their action during casco Penlenet, Mrs. Robert D.of the late treasurer, Sir William two weeks in jail or, if they are Craighead, Mrs. Glen Yarbrough, Henry Dunn, luckier, by paying a fino. Deputy Miss Josephine Yarbrough, Mina. Police Chief Ferdinand Friedens- Flora Van Loan, Miss Hilda Jean- burg has just brushed the dust off notto Ward, Mr. and Mrs. George of the atheism of thevil-

of the Volga a 1903 ordinance, calculated to Weston, Dr. Mary Achsah Wil-Ingers The press here is not enthustias-stem the epidemic of mashing on liama and Dr. and Mrs. W. O. Wiglon, a sect of devout Orthodox Greek believers has abandoned the the tour of the South Island alone tic with regard to the Saar de Berlin streets and in public con- ner.

the veyancos. regarding which

In announcing this No further details of the pas. comforts of village life and struck and that on Saturday on a journey cislon,

Nationalist from Greymouth to Christchurch, extreme

Journals polley, Friedenburg declared that zengers will be available until the cut Into wildest Siberia to he drove an electric train through sharply criticise Dr. Stresemann. police headquarters have recently California arrives in port. The ablish a new and more plous 'five miles of tunnel. He after The Deutsche Zeitung demands been flooded with complaints from wards drove a steam train, at that Germany quit the League and women, who assert that Berlin men have recently become shame times exceeding fifty miles per that Dr. Stresemann resign.

less in their advances. hour.British Wireless.

A message from New Zealand

says that the Duke is continuing

Reuter.

CB-

tourist Department of the Hong-olony in the forests. The Soviet kong and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., Government, anxious to coloniza is in charge of the local arrange and develop Siberia. ls aiding the ments.

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