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WEDNESDAY, JUNK 22 19-7.

RAILWAY CO-OPERA-

TION.

Monday's unique happening on the Kowloon-Centen Railway, when an express train was pulled all the way from Kowloon to Canton by an engine belonging to the British Section serves to remind us all of the great potentiality of the line which connects the two ports, if enly peaceful and prosperous condi- tions could be stabilined. The enor

mous capital expenditure spent on the British Section when it was constructed and the large sums for rolling stock, and upkeep hava

often been the theme of official and

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1927.

alone will bring benefits to both the British and the Chinese sections. Monday's Interchange of greetings between the leading officials of both sections, together with the journey of a British section engine to Can- lon (the first in the history of the

DAY BY DAY.

YOU HAVE NOT CONVERTED A MAN BECAUSE YOU HAVE SILENCED HIM

John Morley.

The P. and. O. s.s. Mantun is dug

THEFT OF JUNK

MEN CHARGED WITH POSSESSION.

The Very Idea!

After the school teacher kad. Anished giving her pupils à lesson Alleged to have been in posses- on birds, dealing with the mother sion of an unnamed junk at bird's care of her young and their Cheung Chau on May 12th, know-first lessons in flying, she said: ing it to have been stolen, outside "Now, childen, I am the mother the colony, four men, Li Wing, L. bird and you are the little ones in Kwai, Chan Sing, and Liu Loi, Your cosy little nest." I want you were charged at the Criminal Ses all to spread your wings and y slons this morning, before the way." ncting Chief Justice, Mr. J. R. All British naval craft in Har-Wood. All the prisoners ploaded hour dressed ship to-day in honour "Not Guilty."

Mr. H. K. Holmes prosecuted of the anniversary of the Corona- tion of His Majesty the King. At for the Crown. noon Royal Saluto of 21 gung was fired...

At a recent meeting of the

Roads and Buildings Committee of the Hangool Corporation, it] was decided to approve of the sug gestion to abolish rickshas by

music she played on the piano, Each child, waving arms to the skipped from the classroom, with who remained in his scat. the exception of one little follow,

"Donald," asked the teacher, "why didn't you fly away?"

The men were arrested on board the junk at Cheung Chau, and, in ****Cos-I'm a bad egg," replied the denying any knowledge of theft | boy, they state that they were engaged.

outside the Colony, as a crew by a Afth man.

*

Husband at Highgato when s soparation order was made against" him: I shall now be able to rest.

line) were acts in the right direc-here on Friday about 9 am. tion and ought to be productive of

Amonit those who left this mor- much good. It is no secret that ning by the Empress of Russia for the rolling stock of the Chinese sce-Shanghai were Mr. and Mrs. J. H.

Taggart. tion is in a very unsatisfactory state and that the British acetion will possibly have to loan a quantity of stock for the express service. But, so long as there are reasonable

•afeguards for proper use and re- turn there ought to be no difficulty in fixing up an arrangement where- by the old express service of two through trains a day each way can be maintained. Obviously, it is to Hongkong's advantage to encour- age the growth of railway traffic

This morning's Harbour Omes and, equally obvious, it will be to reports gave 15 arrivals and 14 the advantage of Canton. This dis.departures, of which four and fivo leav- play of n better feeling regarding respectively were British, railway working is, we like to think,ng 63 vessels in harbour, British symptomatic of a better feeling generally between Canton and Hongkong-un inprovement based on the realisation that the interests of each are the interests of both It cannot be said too often that the interests of Hongkong and Canton are complenientary one to another, and not in the least antagonistic, and that only by helpful co-epera. is central at the North of Japan. Hulmes said that the junk, with test against unpalatable food and

tion will best results be obtained. In the case of the railway it is ob- vious and apparent.

Limited House of Lords.

1931.

20.

The tenant of No. 44, Caine Road has reported to the Police of the loss of silverware and cutlery to the value of $120. The theft is supposed to have occurred between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. yesterday.

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The Royal Observatory reports that a typhoon may be forming to the N.E of Luzon. An anticyclone The foreenst up till noon to-mór raw is:South-west or variable winds, moderate; fair to showery,"

Mr. T. Makiyama, residing at the Mors of the Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha, 20, Macdoneli Road, has reported to the police that between 5 and 6 pm. yesterday someone stale from his quarters money,

$150.

years.

In his opening remarks, Mr. Holmes referred to the section of

Willesdop landlady: I have the ordinance under which the given my lodger notico once a men were charged, which is to the week for ages, and she throws it effect that every person, who with-downstairs at mo'overy time. out lawful exense receives or has "Magistrato at Willesden;" You in his possession in the Colony must bring some one here who any property stolen outside the knows you. Man: But I know no Colony, knowing such property to one. Magistrate: How long have have been stolen, shall be liable you lived here? Man: Eighteen to a penalty,

He continued that it would be Solicitor at Bow County Court: Que-man business? that although generally Yours is a seen speaking the Colony was not con-Mans I have a wife.

committed Midland husband: Did I not cerned with offences outside, the law provided for pos- tell you that I was going to my favourite occupation? Wife: Yes, session of property stolen oustide

on the dole. to prevent Hongkong from becom in a repository for stolen pre- Perty.

Dealing with the facts, Mr.

some 70 piculs of charcoal, was lying at a place called Sunning, between Hongkong and Swatow on May 10th. there being on board the master, and three other men,.

Driven into Hold.

Seventy-five convicts in the New York State prison at Sing Sing went on strike yesterday us a pro

of

were punished with several hours' solitary confinement. Sing Sing

the reputation prison has being conducted as the most "hu- manitarian" prison in the country. The fumates are permited to play baseball, to attend concerts and cinema performances, to fish in the Hudson River, and to enjoy other unusual privileges.

There is a great deal of interest in the discussion initiated on Alon day in the House of Lords on the jewelley and clothing valued at The master and his companion on fare objected to was beans, the

question of a limitation of the assembly of Peers, and the future election of a certain number for s

that they knew anything about the junk having been stolen and said they were engaged as members of

man named Yung Kwong.

Prisoners Statements.

The specific article of prison strkers declaring that they were underdone and improperly pre- pared. To show their resentment

On that night, the master with another slept on deck, and the remaining two slept in the hold. deck were aroused by a party of men who wore cloths, over their Among the passengers departing faces, and they were

forced to fixed period, as well as the nomina-to-day by the Empress of Russia join the other two men of the crew seventy-five men in various prison in the hold after which the hatch workshops laid down their tools, tion of representatives of the were Lieut.Com . C. Bindloss,

was dropped into place.

but the warden, horrified at such Labour party. It seemed, at the Lieut, and Mrs. O. D. Bowman, Mr. time that the first limitations of Lieut. and Mrs. P. W. George, Mr. about three o'clock in the morning hustled the malcontents off to the W. V. Curtis, Capt, W. Davison They remained in the hold until a display of bad temper, promptly. the powers of the Lords were put i forward, as if the old order were and Mrs. W. G. Joseph and Mr. J. when they wore called on deck, deepest dungeons and stationed put in a small boat, and cast extra guards to discourage any indeed changing and giving place. Jessen.

adrift. Before leaving, the mas- demonstration on the part of the to new, and observers of current

The body of an unknown Chinese ter asked to be allowed to take remaining 1,600 prisoners. The events will see in these proposed changes further evidence of the woman, aged about 20, has been some account books with him, and strikers quickly realised that they had acted hastily and asked to be rise of democratic principles in sent to the Kowloon Mortuary.this he was permitted to do.

The crew were eventually pick-permitted to return to their tasks, British political life. There The body was found floating in also as indication, for those who yun pass with a rope arounded up by a fishing junk which took but the request was refused. read between the lines, that cer- the neck and upper part of the them to San Mei, where they re- tain Conservative members are body. The police suspect it as a ceived information which caused The paychology of the school- them to come to Hongkong. In boy "howler" is discussed in the introdueing along with the pro-ase of murder.

the meantime, the Hongkong Cape Times. posed reforma a safeguard against

The Shanghai Municipal Police had been making enquiries The boy who declared that “a the entire over-riding of the House by any

future Orchestra announces its open-air and on May 12th, they boarded the fugue is what you get in a room. upper unuflicial 'moralising, and this Socialist majority in the House concert season for the three junk, at Cheung Chau when the Lull of people when all the win- journal has often pointed out that of Commons. Under the law as it menths June, July and August four prisoners were found to he dows and doors are shut" moved in the same mental plane, says the failure of the British Sectionists at present, it is possible for There will be orchestral concerts at on board.

When charged at the Police the writer, as the other who de- an anti-Monarchist majority to Jessfield Park every Monday, Wed- to be anything other than a serious abolish the prevailing constitutionesday and Saturday, and at Hong-Station, the prisoners all madened "mosquito" as "the child of black and white parents." "The and heavy drain on the resources (2nd even do away with the Houskew Fark every Tuesday and Fri-statements in which they denied Last Post' is sounded by the burg-

day, weather permitting. of Baris Itself, and establish a of this Colony rests wholly with single-chamber form of Govern→

liars of our school spittoon"; "A Tour Chinese friends at Canton who ment. This, indeed, is the So- The continuation of the N.A.

Soviet is n cloth used by waiters in hotels" "fallacy is another "name have failed to live up to the cond.cialist ideal for a British Parlia- IA.F. Institute larceny case, which a crew, the master being a nith for suicide"; "a polygon is a

ment, and no doubt an attempt was to have been heard at the

dend parrot" "philosophy in- tions of the agreement under which would be made along those lines Kowloon Magistracy yesterday af-

Creases thirty-two feet per second." was adjourned on ac- the construction of the line was were a big labour return register-ternoon

are good examples of this kind. undertaken. Por long periods anded at the next general election.count of the indisposition of Mr.

At the Magistracy, the first pri Sometimes the culprit hits by. often, the Chinese section has been to meet the possibility of a Guvern cases were dealt with by Mr. T. W. he said he was engaged by Yung "Genius is an infinite capacity for

soner made a statement in which accident on However, we learn that, in order W. Schofield. The usual morning

a profound truth. out of commission; there has been mans introducing a single-chamber Ainsworth.

Kwong, who asked him to engage picking brain," for

," for example. interruption of through traffic; and form of Government, the Cabinet

another three. Seeing men on the A Chinese woman has been sent junk which was hus suggested that the provisiona there has been the loss of rolling or the Parliament Act whereby to the Government Civil Hospital him prisoner said there was

pointed out t The drill sergeant whose 60. verity had made him unpopular stock which the British Section Bills can be passed without the suffering from injuries received ready a crew on board but Yung with his troops, was putting a have, on occasions, allowed to go assent of the Lords during the yesterday when she was knocked Kwong replied they were pussen-party of recruits through the drill. Opening. of a single Parliament, down by motor eyele No. 596, gers. The prisoner engaged the funeral service Under the finan-course

should not apply to uny Bill driven by Mr. G. H. F. McClay, three other prisoners and when the ranks so as to admit the pass- cial provisions of the Railway altering the constitution or alter residing at 15 Felix Villas, Mount they went on board Yung Kwong age of the supposed cortege be- Agreement, the Chinese section in the powers of the Lords laid Davis Road. The accident occur ordered two men who were sleep-tween them, the instructor, by way owes the British section large sums down in the Parliament Act." red yesterday on the main road. being on deck to go below which of practical explanation, walked This disposes of one possible at,tween Shaukiwan and Quarry Bay. they did willingly. Later four slowly down the lane formed by of money which it has never offered tempt to render the House of to'pay, and it is really surprising Lords entirely impotent. All the The manager of the 'Wah Meimer in the hold were put shore the two ranks, saying, as he did and took some books with them. so: "Now, Pam the corpse. Pay that this Colony has not had to foot hame, it appears as if much of the Electric Company, of No. 135, Des

All four men made other state- hereditary and historic power of Youux Road, was fined $25 by Ir.ments. which were a much larger bill than the heavy the Peers is to go for ever.

In

I. E. Lindsell at the Central Marthe same, except for one made by ne already, borne Of course, it way few should deplore the gistracy this morning, for failing the first prisoner in which he said was understood when the railway changes that are occurring. It is on two occasions to stamp are when the four men were put in a was built, that it was only the well known that many of those ceipt for $24. The defendant was small boat near Ping Hol he who have it, do not desire to fined a similar sum at the begin realised that Yung Kwong had | beginning of a large system which exercise the hereditary right to aning of the present month, in rez- pirated the boat. He told Yung

was going to connect Hongkong, seat in the upper House, and many pect of five receipts.

Kwong he could not help him. Canton and Hankow and that even who do sit there do so on occasion,

Yung Kwong told him to keep and more out of a sense of duly

quiet and offered to give him $10. tuully the line would carry traffic than from any real interest

The case is proceeding. heavy enough to reimburse the State matters.

We all high cost of construction. Įklow how the development of rail- ways in South China hay, like so many other things, been held up through political discords and how the condition of the Canton-Shum Chun line has often been deplor Jable. Especially during the strug

gies for Canton a few years ago and during the political unrest of the past two years has there been itita sustained working.

But it in practically certain that we here in the South are entering upon a period of stability at least in the matter of the regime in Can- ton, and that the present consti- tutes a very favourable opportunity for Inaugurating that close co- operation in railway working which

over the border.

substantially

The Empress of Asia in due at Nagasaki this afternoon. She is on her way to Hongkong from Vancouver.

attention.""

Having reached the end of the path, he turned round, regarding them steadily with a scrutinising eye for a momont or two, then exclaimed: "Your 'anda is right, and your ads is right, but you ought to 'ave." 'aven't got that look of regret you

It is the Jewish

ruce which

keeps art alive, Lord North-

bourne.

We still allow a pedestrian some rights on the roadway. Mr. Justice Rowlatt.

I would for rather hear woman preach who can than a mun who can't-Dr. Russell*Malt- by

The Hospital Comforts Com inmittee begs to acknowledge with thanks, receipt of the following gifts for the Hospitals:-12 doz. packs playing cards from Mr. Ho The hearing was continued yes Kom Tong, 0.B.B., parcels of disense reported yesterday was a The only case of notifiablo tornay of the case in which

magazines from Mrs. A. Morris, Chinese case of typhoid. Chinese was charged with murder- Mrs. A. T. Hamilton and Mrs. A. ing his wife at San Ho! Village. R. Sutherland, and parcela of The afternoon was occupied by the books from Mrs. W. Shewan. Also, Court by getting the evidences of a sewing machine (on loan) from Mortuary and Mr. E. R. Dovey Dr. J. E. Dovey of the Kowloon Mrs. A. Morris.

the Government Analyst. The

Chineso Police Constable No. former stated that he saw in his 564, attached to the Louza Station,

That ten persons, including a finite cause of death and said morning at the Police Hospital murdered in the International examination of the corpse no de- Shanghai, died early on Friday foreign police constablo, were "Yeah," said the flapper tourist that strangulation was a possibili from wounds received in a gun Settlement at Shanghai during the through room after room of the after she had been ushered ty, while the Government Analyst battle with Chinese gunmen on month of May, is revealed in the magnificent palace at Versailles. stated that although he found no Wednesday morning. The death poison in the stomach of the, de teased woman there was nothing inconsistent with the theory that the woman was polsoned.

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand 1/11.15/16. Lighting-up

7.10 p.m.

The pen is mightier than the word; it gets more exercise, though neither of them rankes ab much noise as the typewriter.- Bir St. Clair Thomson.

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of the constable marks the second May Police Department Report. It's pretty nifty, all right. What fatality of the morning battle, the In addition, there were six at-picture they get showing here this other being one of the members of with these crimes a number of

tempted murdors. In connexion week?" the robber gang. C.P.C. 664 was shot twice in the abdomen. He persons were arrested, and nine nover recovered sufficiently to were under remand at the end of malce a statement concerning the the month. Other crimes listed shooting. The fight started in the during the month include armed French Concession and continued abduction, robbery and trafficking in the International Settlement. in firearms.

The Australian Government are contemplating the abolition of the vida on British passports to Aus

tralia.