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grummes.

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Hongkong, March 31st, 1927.

www.loc.

aituate and being

Nos. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18 & 14, Argyle Street, Mongkokisul, and Nos. 433, 435 & 437, Reclamation Street, Mongkoktsal and Nos. 1080, 1062, 1064 and 1066, Canton Road, Mongkoktaui.

:

TO BE SOLD

by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ол

FRIDAY,

the 1st day of April, 1927,

at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,

IN THREE LOTS.

by

MRESTS. LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers,

at their Auction Rooms,

Duddell Street.

LOT NO. 1.

The property consists of:----

All that piece or parcel ground situate at Mongkoktsul

of

in

“BOLSHEVISM

· UNMASKED.

THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927.

BISHOP OF DURHAM'S LETTER,

FORGERS TRAPPED

BY GIRL.

BANK OF ENGLAND DECEIVED.

HAUNTED HOUSE.

A'STORY FROM KEW.

"Quee-Week," the family cat and Lalie," the family ghost, are at variance over the posses- Two of the cloverest forgore insion of the haunted panelled draw Great Britain have just been ioning-room of Beaconsfield House,

Kew Green. tenced to terras of penal sorvitude.

The Bishop of Durham, writing to the Times on Soviet Russia, as revealed by Professor Karlgron, of Copenhagen, in his book, "Bol

They had outwitted. Scotland. shevist Russia," saya →→

Yard for eight years, but were The author claims to know Rus-ltimately run to earth through sia intimately, to have visited the the natateness of a girl shop assis country often, to have conversedtant at Oldham, freely with the people, and to have: bean at great pains to discover for himself how the Bolshevist theories were being actually tran- alated into practice.

They had manufactured thon- annds of notes so cleverly that even the Bank of England passed many of them, and an expert do- scribed the workmanship as "the best forgery he had seen in 33 years."

Beaconsfield House is owned and occupied by Mr. F. W. Frost, member of the Richmond Borough Counell. It is barely a atone's throw from Kew Bridge, and the garden runa down to the towing-path. Three hundred years old, the house was occupied by Mrs. Pappendick, reader to Queen Charlotte when at Kew Palace.

manifesta-

"There have been tions of various kinda on and off during much of that period.

"Lately the inside has been re- decorated, and 'Leslie's' own room

HEROIN TRAFFIC.

(Continued from Page 1.)

ticular packota tvore meant for China or clsewhere.. Sero person or persons may have intended to: import the heroin into China or olasowhere, but there is nothing to, connect my ellont with this charge. The evidonca of the prosecution 'on this chargo is extremely thin

Mr. Vaux concluded by saying that there was nothing to show that the skirts and belts were there for the purposes of bringing the heroin ashore, and there was still less to show that his client meant to use these articles for bringing ashore- the very heroin found in the trunk

His Worship remarked that the first defendant was convicted on both charges.

Mr. d'Almada, who represented second defondant, Mrs: Kamien, then put his client into the witness-box. He informed his

Court after his Worship had heard Worship that he would address the

the defendant's story.."

Woman's Evidence.

We find ourselves gizing on a scene of almost unbroken havoc,

"What the origin of the troublo when once the mask of official

is we do not knew," said Mrs. Soviet pretension has been torn

These astounding facts were re-Frances Adame Mr. Front's mar-the away. The Government of the vealed at Manchester recently. ried daughter to a Daily Chroni Tears was corrupt and oppressive, when two món, described as bro-cle representative. This house but it had laid the foundations on thers-they gave their names as which a civilised order might have Arthur George Southgate (255) and my father has lived in it for was occupied by my grand-father, boen built, and there were present and Fred Green (20), both labour nearly 30 years. and active within it forces which ers-were sentenced to penal ser in time would have rémedled its vitude for forging Treasury notes. worst faults and developed the

With such skill had they done germs of social progress. The

Mrs. Kamien said that she lived in Paris, She was aged 37 and, ruthless hand of the Marxian re-it that counsel for the prosecution

the mother of two children. She volutionarica has destroyed all the said it was the most dangerous features of the Tsardom which case that had come to the notice

received an offer to see Japan if were hopeful and good and prof the Inland Revenue Department upstairs altered. I think that she would take a trunk to Kobe. petuated all (with vastly added since Treasury notes were insti-Leslie must be resenting the upset. Her passage both ways was pald vigour) which were bad.

tuted in 1914, and the Government

and she was to receive £50 in Seen by Cat. of this expert said he had not seen a be The cynical artificers

Koha.. According to instructions immense ruin are extremely scp- ter forgery in his 33 years' ex- Leslie' has, within the past contained in a letter which she nitive to the opinion of the West,perience.

few days, sent 'Quee-Week' near received whilst in Paris, the. and, accordingly, they have or Prisonera pleaded guilty to ex-ly mad with fright. Even in arrangement was that she should ganised a truly wonderful machin- tensive charges of forging and broad daylight he enters the draw-go to Marseilles and a Japanese ery of "make-belief" in order to uttering currency notes, and Mr. ing-room very gingerly, and then named Mansuri would arrange. At hoodwink Western visitors. Much N. Laski, explained that since the turns tail and flies.

everything satisfactorily. success has attended their efforts.men had been arrested, they had

Marseilles, in

met Cafe, she "The other afternoon Mrs. Mansuri, who asked her to go on Inquirers in a endless succes signed a statement as to their Frost's mother (Mrs. Hobson), board half an hour before the sion, come to Russia. Mostly method of distribution and manu-who has recently come to live here, Atsuta Maru sailed. While sho they are ignorant of te difficult facture."

met with a strange experience. was on board, she was shown the language and wholly directed by

He did not think, however, that the Soviet officials, on whose good-

"She went into the drawing-trank which she was to deliver to in the interests of the will they are altogether dependent, it was

The trunk was only opened ones, a little cup-board by the side of

on the voyage and that was the fire-place.

board she felt herself gently push-to put away some o big trunk to whon an extra passenger came "As she went to open the cup into her. cabin, when she decided ed away by invisible hands. She belongings into the tried again, and the same thing make room for the newcomer. happened.

THE SIMPLEX PLASTER COMPANY LIMITED.

NOTICE is hereby given that "FAMILY HOTEL-Victoria Gar-the Third Annual General Meet dens. Quiet apartments and ing of the Company will be held sultes of rooms. Full board from at the Registered Office, 2nd floor, the Colony of Hongkong and re- They are shown at Moscow a mar public that the details of the state room is get her pin-cushion from a Mr. Stanigross in Kobe 395, $110, $130 monthly Large Powell's Building, Des Voeux gistered in the Land Office as commedious rooms, also daily Road C., Hongkong, on 31st March, KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. commedieuminates from next new Hotel, Hankow Kowloon, Tel. K.357.

1291 Together with the messunges and premises thereon known as Nes. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, ARGYLE STREET, Mongkokisul

ferry, 1927, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Road, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with a statement of accounts for the year ended 31st December, aforesaid. 1926.

PREMISES TO LET.

TO LET-55, Kennedy Road. Ap. ply Young, Tel. C.906 and C.551.

TO LET-One European FLAT Wanchai Gap Road, Hongkong Apply to 82, Kennedy Road.

TO LET.--Office Rooms, 2nd Floor, New Hongkong Bank Building. Apply Sang Kee, same building.

TO LET From 1st April furnish- ed flat at the Peak. Apply Pro- perty Office Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

TO LET-3A, Wyndham Street, from 16th April. Suitable for offices. Apply Hau Kee, 1, Wing Lok Street, first floor.

TO LET.-On Second floor of No. BOB, Nathan Road, Kowloon. A Flat of four rooms. Apply Scerc- tary, A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd.

COMMODIOUS OFFICES to let in No. 7, Queen's Road Central, also two small offices in LA, Chater Road. Apply E. D. Sassoon and Company, Ltd.

Area 6462.5 Square feet. The Transfer books of the Com-nual Crown rent $70.00. pany will be closed from 23rd March to 31st March, 1927, both days inclusive.

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General Manugera. Hongkong, 14th March, 1927.

LOT NO. 2.

This property consists of:--

An

+

of

vellous and articulated provisionment should be made public. for the economic, social, and edu- cational benefit of the Russian that over 60 towns in addition to There was also a diary showing People, and they take "at face London and the whole of the value" all that they see, returning suburbs had been visited.

Pushed into Chair.

She was surprised to meet. Stanigross in Hongkong, as sho was told he would meet her in She also added that in

At Work Since 1919.

This had been going on since

Kobe. "At her third attempt she was 1919, but although the notes were suspected in the following year pushed halfway down the long their source could not be tracedroom and into a chair. until the men were arrested.

"In the end father came and ment, said it seemed as though cushion.

The judge, looking at the state-Leslie allowed him to take the pin- the men had worked through the country.

home to become the advertising agents of Bolshevism. The keen eve of Professor Karlgren saw through the pompous parade of official pretension and perceived in its naked atrocity the squalid reality which it concealed..

Nothing has been more brazenly All that piece or parcel paraded than the Bolshevist hand- ground situate at Mongkoktaui in ling of national education. Here the Colony of Hongkong and re- at lenst, we are asked to admit, gistered in the Land Office as is a great achievement which may KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO.fairly be set against the horrors 1076 Together with the messuage of the Revolution. What is the Oldham, said several thousand says our Professor, "as regards having come from the prisoners' school education can only be cont pared to a first-class pogrom. press. The Russian school system lies In duat and ashes." In

Moscow there are model schools for the benefit of foreign inquirers, but throughout the country the fell of education is a waste of ruin.

Superintendent Musgrave,

of

"The drawing-room bas been

But there is a sense of a presence. getting restless for some weeks. Nothing has been seen there.

PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD. and premises thereon known as brutal truth? "Bolshevist action. forged notes had been traced as Friendly-but purposeful.

NOTICE is hereby given that on and after May 1st, 1927, following prices will be the charged on Monthly Tickets and Coupons. Monthly tickets available

between both termini or intermediate stations... $12.00 Monthly tickets available

between May Road, Bo- wen Road, Kennedy Road. or Lower Terminus

No. 1080, CANTON ROAD, Mong koktsu! aforesaid.

of

of schemes,

.'

Marseilles, Manauri had told her

that she need mot assist in taking the trunk ashore when she reached. Kobo..

Letter of Instruction,

In cross-examination by Me

the Japanese and with the male. Whyte-Smith, the woman related how she was put into touch with

accused in Parts, and quoted ti

LOT NO 3. This property consists of:-

All that piece or parcel ground situate at Mongkoktsui in the Colony of Hongkong and re- gistered in the Land Offico as

While the Bolshevist offeinls KOWLOON INLAND LOT NO. 1290 Together with the messunges are drafting and circulating an

endicas succession and premises thereon known as Nos. 433, 485 and 437 RECLAMA-&c., the school buildings are fall $10.00 Nos. 1962, 1064 and 1066, CAN: wild. From village school

TION STREET, Mongkoktsui anding down, the teachers are stary-

ing, and children are

running under TON ROAD, Mengkoltsui afore University everything is subor dinated to the single object of pro- pagating the Communist creed.

We hear much, and we shall see certain differences, particular-come out after a few minutes ap hear much more, in his country ofly in the watermark. the "class war." In Professor

"Leslie often wakes me by rat-letter received from the former In many cases they had passeding the brass knob of my bed, as follows: You have decided to through the Bank of England, and Sometimes he seems to tap the make the trip to Japan, and being Starfross (the male accused), I it had been utterly impossible to foot- rail, but I've never seen him. informed to this effect by Mr. "Whether 'Leslie' is the same have to inform you that your boat detect them.

An official of the Treasury ghost I once saw in the garden is aniling from Marseilles on the I was walking 19th February. You are not to Revenue, London, stated that ever heard footsteps and saw a stumpy are to meet me in the Cafe Notes Department of the Inland cannot say

one night into the garden when I all earlier than this date. You one thousand forged notes had

solid-looking old lady dressed in Louvrepaix. You will recognize a tight-fitting bodice and long me easily. I am a short mar, been traced to the prisoners.

The Department viewed the for-skirt, and wearing a tall Dutch and shall wear dark-blue glasses gery as of a very dangerous type. kapple head-dress. I couldn't and be in a blue suit."

Asked by the Judge How it was see the face, and the figure just possible to distinguish between turned the corner, and, as I peer-impressed by any peculiar detall the forged and the genuine notes ed round, I saw it vanish." witness said that an expert could

12 years of age half price.

Children over 3 years &

Family Monthly Tickets same discounts as at present.

Third Class Coupons

grid.'

Area 5,197.5 Square feet. An- nual Crown.zent $56.00.

For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale.

Face value less.. 10% discount apply to

TO LET Detached House with Garden, No. 7, Conduit Road. Two First Class Coupons

8/4 roomed Flats in No. 14, Con dult Road. Apply to H. M. H. Nemazes.

KOWLOON HOUSE near ferry, five rooted, furnished for one year or longer. Linen and cutlery in- cluded, Half may be sublot by principal tenant. Small Investors, Tel. 0.4630.

Face value.less.. 10% discount

First Class Coupons

for nurses, mili- fary and naval of- ficers face. value less

20% discount.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Manager.

FOUND.

TO LET SHIPPING OFFICES FOUND.-Ladie's Cont & Child's

In Connaught Road Central, Nos. 16, 18 & 19,-Ground Floors; Nos. 16, 17 & 18, First Floor; No. 18,

Second Floor. Please apply S. K Trust Ltd., 29, Connaught Road, Central.

Sailor cout. Apply office Royal Hongkong Golf Club.

FOR SALE.

Messrs. HASTINGS DENNYS

AND BOWLEY,

Solicitors for the Vendor

от

LAMMERT BROS.. the Auctioneers.

EXPERTS DEFIED.

NO TRUE TEST OF DRUNKENNESS.

to

what it means when, as in Russia,

parently counting change again.

Accused said that she was not

in the circumstances of the offer, but that she was glad to avail her be moreover paid £60, which was self of a free trip to Japan and a large sum for one placed in har Karigren's pages we can learn Judge Unable to Tell False Notes, This roused the girl's suspi- circumstances. She Wag not cions, and thinking there, was aware of the presence of the drug It is "fought to a finish." The The Judge said he could not tell something wrong, she, communi- in a secret compartment of the description of the oppression of the difference, and the expert add-cated with a policeman who was trunk. the "bourgeoisie" (ie, the middle cd that to the ordinary public it close at hand. The policeman

Mr. Leo d'Almada, in his and upper classes) is painful would be difficult to detect the for-kept the man under observation, submissions on behalf of the reading. They are excluded fromgery.

watching him until he did a sim-accused, argued, that the onus citizenship. They have no rights,

"That is why," he added, "we lar thing again.

which

threw the Ordinance and are in process of being crush; regard it as

Was rebutted a very dangerous

Finally the constable went into on the defence ed out by the steady pressure of

[type." an elaborate governmental system

a shop after the man and caught by the evidence of the woman's which at every point isolates and Mr. Laski asked him if in his him actually making a purchase. statement, which, if accepted by humiliates them. "On the side of 33 years' experience he had seen. their oppressors there is power, but they have no comforter."

Bolshevism is, perhaps, rather a

He Green wae taken to the police the Court, would make of the onus

negative presumption. a better forgery than this, and wit-office at the Town Hall, Oldham,

quoted from analagous Home ness replied, that he had not. It and sundry small purchases were was the best forgery they had had found in his possession. He had

cases in this respect, and finally

draughtsmanship and 130

coloura,

י

His Worship convicted accused on the two charges standing

new religion than a political dec- In sentencing Southgate to a lot of genuine money received asked for the accused's discharge trine, and its fanatical procedure seven years' penal servitude, and in change, and had also 21 notes on the ground that guilty know can be supported by precedents Green to three years, the judge told consecutively numbered in his ledge had not been proved.. Rather more than a year ago drawn from ecclesiastical history, the former that it was clear that possession.. the British Medical Association At least it has the fanaticism of a he had extraordinary ability in set itself the task of furnishing new religion, though none of its reliable means of arriving at a moral exaltation. Nor can it of- definite answer to the question as fer the excuse for cruelty which

been living at an address at Westposed, BUNGALOW 402, Severn Rond, to whether, a man is drank or was not always hypocritical on the lips of Christian persecutors, that FANLING TO BE LET, furnish- Peak, Partly furnished Four sober.' ed a three roomed Bungalow. Mo-Public Rooms Five Bedrooms and The result of the inquiry is to they sought to save their victim's dern sanitation." Electric Light, usual offices. Tennis Court and leave matters exactly as they soul by afflicting his body. Bol Garage and Large Garden. One extensive grounds. Possession were.

shevism is of the earth carthy. mile from Sheungshui Station. from 1st June, 1927. Order to This is not because those who and its creed is one of militant Immediate Possession. Apply to view on application to Messrs. conducted the inquiry, were want-materialism. Mesara. Benjamin & Potts.

CHEUNG CHAU-To bo let from 1st April, furnished bungalow,

Lowe, Bingham and Matthews, Chartered Bank Building.

ing in care and thoroughness; it was because the problem which they were asked to solve is, in its nature, insoluble. The way in which people react to an overdose

Over the Line.

The Sentences,

The police at Oldham went very ner name, and asked Mr. Whyte- of thoroughly into the matter and Smith if he had anything further found that Green had probably to state before sentences were in- He had used that ability to de-

Nottingham. They fraud the public in the most seri- Bridgford,

Mr. Whyte-Smith said that they ous manner. The notes he had communicated with the Notting were not pressing the case against manufactured were such that an ham police, who raided the house. the woman, viewing her in the uninitiated individual could not There they found his brother, a fight of a carrier, who had been the name of used as a tool by the principal possibly distinguish them from man going under gengine notes.

Southgate.

offendors in the case... Had he turned his opportunities They also found a complete for- and skill to honest. purposes hegery outfit of a particularly

modern type. A man who is charged with be- would have achieved prosperity,

As regards the male accused, He ordered the costs of the pro. The forgers' plant is of the most his Worship, who had previously ing drunk may, in this sense, ba very drunk when the charge is secution to be paid out of the up-to-date and efficient kind. It recorded a conviction against made, but by the time all the for-money found on the men,

includes a very expensive camera, Stanigroes on two charges, now malities have been gone through

engraving plant, printing press, imposed Anes amounting to $4,000, and the censor appears, he may

and. lithographic plates, together or six months hard labour in the Shopgirl's Suspicions. Speaking generally, it is true to have recovered himself to such a

with a quantity of paper..

alternative. In addition, the The arrest of the two men is say that the effect of alcoholic point that no conscientious per duo in a large measure to the au

WAB to serve When the den, which was accused

controls in the brain. drinks is to abolish the higher son would go so far as to say thattuteness of a girl assistant in a situated in u small front bedroom, second term of three months,' was raided, the detectives found making nine months in all if he In the very earliest stages this

shop in Oldham. means no more than a general ex- It is quite obvious that drunken--

One of the prisoners, Green, was plates and dies all neatly arrang were unable to meet the fines

ed, and various coloured inks all

In the case of the woman, his pansivencas-a tolerance of foolsness at the wheel is an offence so engaged in passing notes in York- indexed in rows, all ready for use. Worship imposed a fine of $500, or and folly.

heinous us to merit permanent shire Street, one of the main In addition to the litho plates, three months' hard: labour, grant- ** In a slightly advanced degree It suspension of the license to drive, Streets of Oldham. His method there was a special plant used ing a week's stay of execution of means an impairment of judgment, and it in very unfortunate that was to make small purchases at

carelessness about the running there should be no means of de- tobacco and sweet shops and than apparently for placing the water- the sentence, to enable the 'woman possession. For terms and fur-If you have anything you would of risks, a "sporty" note, which is tecting those minor degrees, which get correct money in change.

three bedrooms, large and woll MASSAGE HALL of alcoholic liquor varies even a

acked garden, electric light. Ideal bijou residence near beaches az ferry. Particulars from Box: No. 187, care of "Hongkong Tele- graph."

TO LET-No. 2 Bianco Villas, Pokfulam Road. A most desirable Hemi-detached country residence with tennis court and large gar- den. Excellent situation with commanding viow. Immediate

MRS. S. UZUNOYE

Expert Masseusc

37, Queen's Road. O 2nd. floor.

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS.

4, Duddell Street..

ther particulars. Apply to J. Elko to sell, exchange or advertise Joseph, 2nd floor, Prince's Build-send it to the CHINA AUCTION Ing, Des Voeux Road, Tol No. ROOM. 6.916,

E. V. M. R. do SOUSA.

their signatures vary.

First Signs.

:

his degree of clation constituted any danger to the public.

harmless or dangerous according lead to the taking, and even the to the accompanying conditions. cultivating, of illegitimate risks, In a club smoking-room it is harm- Bat there are no such means, leas; in charge of a motor-car it is and in all probability there never very dangerous,

will be.

mark on the notes. Although to telegraph for the money from there were only a dozen or so her husband in Europe.

An appeal to further lighten the A girl who had just served him completed notes in the room, and given him 108. change anw bundles, of others, neatly tied, penalty was refused, his Worship him go to a similar shop on the were in the various stages of pro-holding that the woman had got opposite side of the road and duction.

off lightly as it was.