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Thongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1927,

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

HUMAN NATURE.IS THE SAME THING IN ALL CLASSER, AND THERE'S JUST AS MUCH CONCEPT, AMONG THE

four or five pirate had abscondech When they saw the British forces landing Over circumstance that stands out boldly, from a reading of the account of the operations fs that are was taken to cause no POORER CLASSES AS", THE | RICHL- porsonal Injury to the inhabitants Donald Maclean. of the villages, whilst special

The P. and O. 8.s. Gogra, which regart was also paid to the point of

left Singapore atam.. on the not damaging any buildings of a 20th instant, is dus here. 7 am, on religious character, In these the 27th respects all concerned are to be commended, whilst a word of plafse is also due to the naval men for the skilful manner in which they carried out a difficult

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CONFIDENCE TRICK.

ÄRREST AFTER THREE WEEKS.

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The Very Idea!

Lady: I want to buy. sOXRO oystars,

Dealer: Large" or "small" ones, lady?..

Lady: Well, they're for a man' with a size fifteen collar..

The "confidence trick," in which unscrupulous Chinggo, accost un suspecting women in the streets and obtain from them money and Jewellery as security, for a parcel purporting to contain banknotes,

The Sheriff of: Aberdeen has been has become a very common micans of. lageeny, and, Always selecting learning in the Mikado's school of

penology: A C Ignorant persons, those who prac

The Sheriff remarked: that The gun practice of H.M.S. Frotice it usually find this method of

bero- heavier getting rich is successful..

fincs might postponed yesterday and is being timised, as long ago as. March, 1st, man

An elderly woman, who was vic-quited to bring the English-

to his Benses, but be. carried out this afternoon,

was little, more fortunate than hoped the Scotsman, with his others have been and she, recelý. appreciation of the value of money, ied as

a gold would come to his senses through compensation for The s.s. Kochow was undocked this morning, and berthed at herring, a gold bracelet and $130, the the imposition of a much smaller usual wharf. She resumes her sum of $5, which she was award- anc, Abordeon Press. place in the West River scheduled at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on the conviction of the this evening. Vert

thief.

bisher · from :: Stonecutters, "was

Strictly speaking, of course, it Is the business of the Canton authorities to suppress these pirates, but the responsibility in one which, for some reason or

The health return for yesterday other, they decline to shoulder. shows two cases of small-pox and one of diphtheris and typhoid, Mr. Eugene Chen's recent suggesThe Inst-named was Portuguese

on that British warships should and the others Chinese. be stationed at Bing Bay to inter cept pirated vessels can only be described 05 astounding.

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The clock's alarm was broken

and

The owner faced a plight. To make sure he would early

riso

He just sat up all night.

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In prosecuting a Chinese on n charge of larceny, before Mr. W. Schofield, Sub-Inspector Falim said the defendant, whlo met the complainant in Yaumati, gave her a bundle which he claim ed contained', bank-noten.

A London denier has in hia pos- After receiving $130 and the articles session an old stained-glass win of jewellery as security, he asked dow from Staffordshire which dis- the woman to have, the notes plays the characters "Mary R." and changed for him, as he was a something that looks like "July

A notice to mariners issued this

announces The morning

that nav gunnery practice will be carried work properly belongs to the out near the north face of Sharp stranger and was not acquainted 27,", both written with a diamond. '.

Ponk on Wednesday, March 30.

Canton Government, and it is only the failure on its part to realise its obligations which has led the

This morning's Harbour Office British to take this long overdue reports gave 18 arrivals and 12 departures, cf which nine and six action. By carrying opt the ex-respectively were British, leaving pedition and giving due warning 68 vessels in Earbour, the British to the inhabitants that further totalling 26. punishment of a ce character will be inflicted, if any further. piracies occur, the British au thorities have rendered a distinct, service to foreign and Chinese interests alike.

Maluya's New Governor. THE BIAS BAY RAID. The Straits Settlements and the whole of Malaya will most assuredly be pleased at the fact that Sir Hugh Clifford has been

In shipping and other circles

While the A.D.C. performance of "The Last of Mrs. Üheney" was in progress at the Theatre Royal last evening, a thief entered the clankroom, and stole property valued t-3101.

with the district. He promised to Mary Queen of Scote is supposed meet the woman later, but it was to be the author of the inscription. not until accidentally seeing him If so, she antielpated our modern in Yaumati yesterday that she saw script by three hundred years. him again.

Solicitor, to Hoxton woman: Is this street of yours a cul-de-sac? The woman, indignantly: No, it is a respectable place!

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The man was pointed out to the police and when arrested a bundle of waste paper, wrapped in a 35 note, was, found on him. Sub-In- spector Fon suggested to-day that he was looking for another Witness at Shoreditch County "customer.

Court: 1 am not going to tell lies The defendant was sentenced to for the paltry money he has paid three months. hard labour and theme to come here. $5 found on him was ordered to le handed to the complainant.

At the Marine Court this mor- ning, before Lieut. Commdr. G. F. Itole. the master of a cargo junk pleaded guilty to the charge of obstruction by anchoring in the Southern Fairway and was fined" $5, with the alternative of five

labour,

21 YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAPH" FILES.

Mr. W. D. Luke, Willesden ma- gistrate: It is easier to be honest

in the long run.

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Nottinghamshire magistrates' clerk: Have you anything to say? Defendant: It is no use anying anything here. How much

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throughout the Far East, there appointed Governor, in successión days' imprisonment with hard Hongkong Telegraph for the week I cannot pay, sir, I am hearts of

to Sir Laurence Guillemard, De cause Sir Hugh is not only 3

The following items are from the.

ended March 31st, 1906.

oak.

Man when fined 10s. at Enfield:

Magistrate: That is a new one to me. What does it mean? The rate of the dollar on demand Man: It means stoney broke. was 23. 0. 1/16d.

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will be general satisfaction felt that British action has at last veteran, well-tried and highly

skilled administrator regarding It was erroneously stated in our been taken with a view to clean-whom the highest encomiums have report of the Bias Bay expedition ing up the ill-famed pirate-nest been voiced, but he is also a pro-yesterday that Capt. Mackintosh,

In the China United Services in the Blas Bay region. During duct of the Malay Civil Service in of the 8.3. Tungehow, had sue-

which he spent the Grst 20 years cumbed to the injuries which he Rifle Championship, Sergt. the past six years there have been of his honourable career. It wasreenived during the piracy of that Lapsley; of the Volunteers, was in 1883 that young Mr. Hugh vessel. His many friends will be second, being only eight points be Clifford joined the Malay States glad to know that latest news re-hind the winner, Capt. J. D'Orly, service and he displayed a marked ceived from him, from Home, show of the 119th Infantry. Mr. C. ability that instantly foreshadow that he is in good health. ed a brilliant carcer. He held important administrative

H. Beavis was top scorer in the 600 yards.

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Mr. Chesterton has moments when he parsiata in putting Vine leaves in his hair, as if he were the Apostle of High Jinks-Mr. Bernard Shaw.

The clash between England and America, so far as it exists, is to a very large extent the clash be twen

middle ago and youth.-. Canon Carnegie.

по fower than nineteen big pirncies committed by the Bias Bay outlawe, in which tremendous suffered by losses have been foreigners and Chinese alike. many

posts in Malaya, but his most DR. JOSE C. SOARES.

In a leading article on the pre-

For sheer malice and misrepre- Again and again efforts have been outstanding work was in the

valence of piracy, the Telegraph, remarked: "It rests with the for sentation the Anglo-Catholic papers made by the Hongkong authorities capacity of Resident at Pahang.

eign fleets in Chinese waters to take take the cake-Dean Juge. to get the Canton Government to be took a leading part in the

the matter into their own hands. To scatter flowers on a grave is. suppression of the Pahang Rebel- participate in a joint expedition lion and, in 1894, led armed ex-

In no other way will this menace simply a way in which an ordinary end danger to shipping be expung-person can express in gesture things against these pirates, but, with a peditions into the native States of

At 5.30 o'clock this evening, ated, and the sooner a start is made that only a very great poet can ex- show of independence which does Trengganu and Kelantan. His re signation of the Governorship of them

of Hongkong "clear of the gangsterion. no credit, the

Canton North Borneo because of his dis- the Club Lusitano, there will be to sweep the waters in the vicinity press in words-Mr. G. K. Ches-

a reception and a presentation of a which lie in wait for traders, the co-approval of the methods of souvenir from the Portuguese better it will be for the credit of officials have declined to

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PRESENTATION THIS AFTERNOON.

An American staying at a Scot-

operate. What is more, they have Chartered Company would pošai- community and friends of Dr. the foreign Navies in this part of tish shooting lodge was awakened

known Portuguese surgeon of Magno, prior to his departure on

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Second Lieutenants H. W. B. Kennett, J. S. Gubbay and J. T Hayton were appointed Lieutenants in the Volunteer Corps,

"That's Donald playing the bag. pipns, sir."

Gee," mullered the American, "I thought it was someone torturing a haggis!"

The training of a champion (the young gentleman who has won a 22-mile swim in Canada)

Not the first connexion between the Bull and the Bare.

bly have cost him dearly in Jose Caetano Soares, the well the world."

early in the morning by an ear- not even shown the least deter-advancement had he not been a

piercing noise under his bedroom mination to take on the task man whose excellences inevitably

Earthquake shocks were felt in window. destined him. for promotion, and furlough upon completion of his all parts of the Colony on the "Luvva Mike," he said to the man themselves, despite the fact, of

he was soon afterwards sent to

ten years' service with the Muni-morning of March 28th. The who brought in his breakfast, which they must have been fully Trinidad. Of his subsequent ser- aware, that the continued existenen vice in Ceylon, the Gold Coast and Council and Santa Casa de shocks were of brief duration but who

Misericordia in the Portuguese, their intensity was most marked.. Nigeria much high praise has her 1 of this pirate stronghold was a said. When he left the Gold colony. The presentation will be made by the Portuguese Consul- menace not only to foreign and Coast, this is what the leading General, Senhor A. Cerveira de to native paper had to say about Albuquerque e Castro, in the name Chinese shipping but also

him: No Administrator of these thousands of Chinese travelling Settlements since the good days and on behalf of his compatriota.

After the reception the Com-. by sea. Some little time ago, of Maclean, and no Governor of.

The sharebroking partnership there was much made of the fact the Gold Coast Colony and its mittee of the Club Lusitano will

Dependencies, since the Royal be "At Home" to tea to Dr. and between Mesare. Benjamin,Kelly that Canton had sent a military Letters Patent constituting these Mrs. Soares and the visitors, of and Potts was dissolved, the succes

When he was five years of age," detachment to the district, but it Settlements into a separate. Inde.whom a large number is expected sors of the firm being Messra, S.

more to be present, since there are, S. Benjamin and G. H. Potts in his mother said, "he was out for a soon became evident that the pendent whole, has been

statesmanlike and courageous in many in Hongkong who owe much Shanghai and Messrs, E. S. Kawalk when a bull appeared on the scene George was, frightened and object of this expedition was for his handling of political problems, to Dr. Soares' profcesional acr- doorle and Co. in Hongkong."

ran into the water. He's stayed there ever since." no other purpose than to hunt for more capable in his perception vices at one time or another, and down a little War Lord who did of the various aspects of the others who hold him in high re-

questions of the day. Hogard and esteem. After ten, there POWELL'S BURGLARY. not recognise Canton's authority, discovered from voluminous re-will be dancing. Music will be No action whatever was

taken cords our chief complaint, that provided by the Lyric Orchestra.

"The street car service is rotten. we were not consulted or allowed

The eminent surgeon holds a ANOTHER POLICE RAID. against the pirates.

Always overcrowded effective voice in the adminiatra-high record at Macao. Dr. Soares

Acting on the aupposition that "Yes, but father, you got a sext In this matter, as in many tion. He knew that we were not first came out to the Far East in others, there is a limit to the satisfied with the existing abort the service of the Government of the burglars could not have got, didn't you?"

ginal representation at the Legis Macao. When he first came out very far with the haul they staleYes, but your poor mother had. patience of the British. Ships fative Council. His Excellency's in 1913 he was a lieutenant in the from Messrs. Powell's Store, an to stand all the way. fying the red ensign have do deep sympathy with native claims Army and was attached to the other raid was carried out on Wed- frequently shared that the time and aspirations" at once caught military medical staff. His trans-nesday, at premises within close

up the discovery, and he began to was, bound to come when, failing work for a remedy which has had ference to Timer took place in proximity to the burgled store. 1915, whence he returned to The area chosen for this raid was It confined within an area bounded by Canton's co-operation, a British the result of the constitution of Macao in the following year.

FITTINGS STOLEN FROM pupiflye expedition would have to the new Legislative Council of was in 1916 that he was engaged Ice House Street and Powell's

"BLUEBELL” be arranged. The pirating of the the Executive Council also we to serve under the Macao Muni-Building on the one hand, and by Within these blocks there is a Hopsang on Monday list proved to shall always associate His Excel cipality and the Santa da Miseri- the old Astor Hotel building and

Having just been thoroughly be the last straw, and a swift and leney's administration of the Gov. cordia. He was placed in charge Des Voeux Road on the other.

ernment of the Gold Coast with of St. Rafael's Hospital, the rear-

are situated premises mostly oc-overhauled, H.M.S Bluebell was stern object-lesson has now been our progress under the Crown gualuation of which he carried out maze of narrow alleyways in which xiven the inhabitants of this Colony system ne at once the most with marked skill and ability cupied as quarters for native ser taken out of, drydock a few days These were all brought Ago and fitters were sent on board. Eventful, the most efficient and the Dr. Soares possesses a rare or wants. pirate-infested region. Prior to most disinguished since Downing uniting.gift. His ten years con- within the area, of the search, but so that new electric wiring could the carrying out of the expedition, Street assumed difective responsi- tract, which has just expired, has nothing that could be identified, be done. It was noticed, how- ever that the now fittings were bility of the direction of our beon renewed, and the worthy with robbery was found. the British authorities knew of a affairs. Sir Hugh goas to the Doctor loaves for Portugal to At the Police Court this morning, being stolen as soon as they were certainty that pirates who had Straits at the age of 61 after morrow by the 8.3. Harung Marua Chinese, who was formerly e-installed, and a watch was set taken part in fairly recent out having held Governorships for He expects to the way for ontployed at Messrs. Powell's Store, which resulted in a Chinese op rages hailed from the villages over 15 years--a Colonial Office

record of outstanding character. which came within the sphere of operations, and this fact was The sale, of property situated at further

Mongkokteul, advertised to take substantiated by ย

place at Messrs. Lammert's Auc- villager who informed the police los Rooms yesterday, has been accompanying the expedition that postponed until April 1.^

the, Colony and to some extent of

`WARSHIP THEFT.

year and hopes to return to Macao appeared on remand, before Major pearing before Mr. R. E. Lindsell in the spring of next year. His Willson, on charges of stealing this morning, charged with steal- friends and admirers will wish and receiving goods proved to haveing some length of electric wiring. him a bon voyage, a happy re been stolen at sonic time or other Evidence was given to show that union with his people in his home from the shop, He was convicted the defendant was seen concealing country and a speedy return ti on the two charges of stealing, and the wires in his waistband, Macao which can ill afford his abwas sentenced to terms aggregat sence for any length of time. Ing six months" hard labour.

Mr. Lindsell sentenced deten dant six weeks hard labour.