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THE
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THE "MAXIMO "
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THE
THE
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$3.75 each.
ABSORBA"
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THE
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
COST OF LIVING.
(Continued From Page 7.)
SATURDAY,
ANTI-PIRACY.
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the system of letting it go to the until the mastor, or other person highest bidder a procedure which in charge thereof shall have re- In the "boom" years put the price ceived cortificate in writing. of land up to false heights. Land-signed by the Captain Superinten Lords, having paid high prices for dent of Police, or by some police building and land, have had to offer authorised by the Captain charge high rents-plus, of course, Superintendent of Police in that whatever else they could impose behalf, from which it shall appear for the benefit of themselves, for that such search has been com- they, In turn, have to bear, their pleted. Individual share of the high cost of living.
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Luxuries,
or
10. Subject to exemption granted under these regulations and to the proviso herein contained no ship shall carry any passenger or at It was perhaps a little unfor-tempt to carry any passenger be tunate that Mr. Shenton should yond the harbour of Victoria en have spoken of increased luxury any voyage within the local trade limits as defined in the Merchant to-day as compared with 15 20 years ago, because he gives a Shiping Ordinance, 1899, or leave false impression by doing so. It any place of mooring or place of is true that the standard of living call in the waters of the Colony has gone up here as it has gone and outside the said harbour un- less and until a search of the ua- ture mentioned in the foregoing regulation 9 has been carried out, nor until the master or other per son in charge thereof shall have obtained a certificate in writing of the kind mentioned in the said re- Eulation 9: Provided that this re case of any launch or motor boat gulation shall not apply in the on occasions when it is used solely for purposes of pleasure.
up everywhere else and that there is generally more diversion and pleasure. Cinemas, silk stockings, dancing, motoring and all such things-taken very much more
matter-of-fact and unnoticed than
they were years ago-have doubt less come to stay, even in the lives of the moderate-salaried, but they are, at the moment, still treated mainly as "extras" and do not come into the budget of what a man calls his "cost of living," 11. No ship to which the fore- which, broadly, is confined to going regulation 10 applies shall board, lodging and clothing for call at any place en route unless himself or for a family. It is the such place of call and the intended growing cost of providing for hour of departure therefrom has absolute essentials that is so dis- been notified to and approved by turbing and Mr. Shenton has, I the Captain Superintendent of think, rather spoiled his raising Police. Approved hours of depar- of the subject by mentioning ture shall be adhered to. "luxuries" when he possibly had
SEPTEMBER 17.
THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
TO COMMENCE NEXT MONDAY
The Criminal Sessions open at the Courts of Justice on Monday,!
∙1927.
EUGENE CHEN AND KUOMINTANG.
MOSCOW INTERVIEW.
WAR BONDS PLAN,
HOME GOVERNMENT'S ATTRACTIVE OFFER.
Moscow, Sept. 16.
London, Sept. 16. Over £200,000,000 is involved in Eugene Chen in a statement to
maturing & 1/2 per cont.. War when the acting Chief Justice and Pressmen emphatically declared the Treasury offer to holders of a jury will hoar the case in which that the Nationalist Government Loan, 6 per cent. War Bonds, and Leung Ping, allas Leung Yip, and of China as a real political factor 4 per cent. War Bonds to exchange Sin Sing, are charged with
no longer existed. Before its be- their holdings for 3 1/2 per cent. forcibly taking and detaining aj
trayal by Nanking Wuhan mili- Conversion Lean at £132/15/-, 5142 and £134 respectively for person for ransom.
tarists and the Kuomintang made every £100 nominal surrendered. At the same time, the acting the whole world realise that
City circles regard the offer as Puise Judge will take the case Chinese nationalism was a new attractive since it confers. 94 shil where Chan Fak is charged with force in Asia, with which foreign lngs per cent. interest on virtual- larceny after a previous ccuviction imperialism would have to reckon,
ly irredeemable - Government (two counts), and failure to report but to-day the position was dif
security-Beuter." under the Prevention of Crimes ferent. Nobody feared or res- Ordinance, 1887.
Kuomintang any preted Another case to be taken before longer. The new political systém the acting Puisne Judge is that in which the Nanking and Wuhan under the flag of the Kuomintang, which Hui Tack is charged with militarists were trying to build up robbery by two or more.
would be a kind of super tuchun- After these cases have been dia- ate not differing in essentials posed, of the Sessions will be ad- from the Peking modal. journed until Thursday, when Chu Kap will be charged before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood with bribery
three counts and offering bribes.
The Shaukiwán murder trial will open on Monday, September 26, at 10.30 am, when the two prisoners, Kam Shan and Cheng Tsning, will be arraigned before the acting Chief Justice.
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A CONFESSED THIEF.
י
the
The true followers of Sun Yat-
neo-tuchunate."
FORD'S LAND PURCHASE.
STORY DENIED BY COMPANY OFFICIALS.
sen must rally to his widow Sun Tsing-ling and fight resolutely
Detroit, Sept. 16. against the true Kuomintang be
Enquiries at the Ford offices here ing reduced to the level of a produced no confirmation of the secretariat of a
Reuter.
New Yorke World story of Mr. Ford's purchase of land in Brazil for rubber growing. The Ford ofl- cials professed to know nothing of any such transaction.-Router's American Service.
Hsu Chien Leaving.
Shanghai, Sept. 16..
T. V. Soong, Wuhan ex-Minister of Finance. left for Unzen this morning aboard the Nagasaki Maru. Hau Chien's wife and STEEL COMPETITION, family arrived at Tuckwo from Hankow yesterday. Hsu Chien
12. Except with the permission STOLE STUDENTS' CLOTHES. is expected, to leave for Japan
is believed to be in Shanghai. and secretly shortly.
U. 5. MANUFACTURERS DEMAND HIGH DUTY:
in mind nothing more thari the of the Captain Superintendent of general improvement in the stand-Police, or in saving life or resoue and a anatching case, but it has "He admits to four larcenics ard of living which has been work at sea no person shall be been impossible to find the com- evident almost the wide world over allowed to embark on and nothing plainants for them," said Sergt. sumed office as mayor of Greater Mr. Mellon promises to publish since the late war.
Causes of High Cust.
where a
Bei Chung-hei, this morning
Chang Ting-fan, Chief Staff to
shall be brought on board any ship after delivery of the cortificate re- Whant this morning, when a Shanghai-Reuter.
Chinese was charged with "the quired by the foregoing regulations
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Sergt. Whant explained that the defendant was employed as a messenger at the University dur- ing the latter part of last year, and & nämber of articles were found
It is suggested, (and this is 9 and 10 and before leaving the larceny of a suit of clothes from Government enquiry waters of the Colony or arrival at 13, Ching Liu Terrace, before Mr. would be of value) that Hongkong the first place of call therein, noti-R E. Lindsell at the Central
Magistracy. is far too much in the grip offied and approved as aforesaid, as
the case may be. rings and guilds and that prices are regulated for the benchit of 13-(1) Every police officer in these middlemen and not accord-carrying out or taking part in any ing to what, were there free com search required or authorised by petition, would be the laws of these regulations shall have power supply and demand. Compradors to search any vessel and its stores shops. market stall holders, and and equipment, and the master, butchers are alleged to be the officers, staff and crew, and their werse offendera in the respect and belongings, the passengers and It would be interesting to know their goods and baggage, and the what the producer or supplier cargo, and every person and thing actually gets and what percentage on board, and every person who of profit is made by those who may apparently be about to go on sell to consumers. Efforts could board and everything which appar possibly be made to lessen the in-cntly is about to be put on board, fluence which intermediate deal and may do all such acts and ers have on prices, and Mr. Shen- things as may be reasonably neces- ton has put his finger on the vital sary in order to carry out such spot in suggesting that enquiry search effectually, could profitably be conducted to-
(2) The police office in charge wards this end. Perhaps the Government will be impartial of any searching party, and any enough to initiate an official en-police officer superior to him, shall quiry, even though, at the mo- have power to detain any vessel ment, it believes the causes of high until in his opinion the searching
shall have been completed. costs to be outside its control.
CANTON PICKETS AND CARGO SEARCHES.
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are cadets at the college, but even these facts cannot be fully verified. That some Communist scheme is on foot is known to be
correct.
(3) It shall be lawful for the police officer in charge of any searching party, and any officer superior to him, to order that no passenger or thing shall embark or be brought on board without his express consent while the search is proceeding: no person shall act contrary to such crder: any such order shall be in force as soon as the same shall "have been communicated to the master or other person in charge of the vessel.
(4) No person shall obstruct any such search or detention..
I hear also that a plan to wreck the train service, which would
14. Every owner, agent, char- have resulted in a very serious
terer, licenses, master, officer, accident had it been carried out, member of staff, member of crew has been frustrated by a worker and other person shall render on the railroad between Steklung every assistance and give all neces and Shektang. It seems that sary orders and facilities in his part of the track had been cut and loosened. That this also is the work of "Red" agents is known to be a fact.
AMERICA'S HEAT WAVE.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS RECORDED IN CHICAGO.
their
power to the police in searches and in all their acts pre- liminary or incidental thereto and in the carrying out of these re- gulations, and shall use his, best endeavours at all times to see that arms or ammunition. smuggled on board..
Are
15. The Captain Suparisten- dent of Police shall have power, in. his discretion, to exempt any ves sel from any provision or require- inent of these regulations, either generally, or during any period, New York, Sept. 16.
or on any occasion, and to impose. Every The heat wave from the middle conditions of exemption.
Ji
west has reached New York. The condition imposed under this re- thermometer stands at 90 degrees Fulation shall be duly performed in the shade, a record here for and observed by the grantee. the time of the year.
16. These regulations shall not There have been 26 deaths in apply to any vessel being or having Chicago in two days as a result, the status of a ship of war, of the heat wave. There have been none hitherto in New York, probably owing to the low humi- dity.-Router's American Service.
Sir Oliver Lodge's nomination of two English astronomers in refutation of Dr. Butler's asser- tion that there are no great men nowadays, has provoked. Professor Jacoby, of Columbia University,
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
12,000 BALES OF 'COTTON DESTROYED.
London, Sept. 16.
to make one or two nominations. Twelve thousand bales of cot- He suggests Professor Einstein, ton stated to have been saved famous for his relativity theory, from the Mississippi Acods were as "head and shoulders above Sir destroyed by fire at the works of Oliver Lodge's nominations"the Cotton Salvage Cómpany, Professor Jacoby thinks that an Limited at Moston, Manchester, American astronomer.. Dr. Henrywhere cotton valued at £200,000 Norriss Russell, of Princeton was stored University, is also worthy of
The fire brigade saved the rest place among contemporary great
of the stock--Reuter
mex.
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LEAGUE COUNCIL.
BRITISH AND FRENCH COMMENT.
08-
Washington, Sept. 16.
in a fow days the report of a com- mittee investigating the demand of steel manufacturers for the imposi tion of a high duty on
German steel products on account of the alloged unfair trade practices of. German steel producers-Reuter's American Servico.
An interesting incident took London, Sept. 16. place yesterday in the "Better to be missing from students, such While the British preas is con-Ole," the Naval and Military as topees and shoes. The defen-gratulating Canada on her election Y.M.C.A. in Peking Road, Kowloon. dent absconded after several of to the Council of the League the Two smiling soldiers, one belong- the losses had been reported, and French newspapers comment uning to the Scots Guards and the the police had only recently found favourably on the defeat of Bel-other to the Devons, came up to him.
gium's candidature. Several re- the counter, arm in arm, and told mark on the paradoxical nature of Owing to the movements" of
brothers and had just met after that Germany, who is the aggressor,
This students, it had not been found the situation in which they declare the lady worker that they were possible to locate the complain-remains a member of the Council separation of 10 years.
while Belgium, the victim is ex- re-union is remarkable, for the ants.
Mr. Lindsell:-Actually he has cluded. They declare that the transport on which the brother no criminal record?No criminal vote will not enhance the re- of the Devons was returning to record at all.
putation of the League among the India was only in Kowloon for a The defendant was sentenced to small States who are jealous of the short while and neither knew the
Great Powers.-Reuter.
whereabouts of the other. six weekat hard labour.
The missing
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