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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927.
DAY BY DAY;
police, .cared not how nitich shoot- ing they did afterwards. This spécially applies to the man who is
EAGLES FLY ALONE; THEY ARE DUT reported to have necessitated the aHEEP WHICH ALWAYS HERD TO- longest pursuit on the part of the|GETHER-Sir Philip Sidney. porice:
If one looks back just within the past decade, there are sóveral Instances of similarly grave hap-
The s.s. Fook Hong undocked from Taikoo this morning, and anchored at Sham Shui Pó.
penings in the annals of police on- Yesterday's return of notifiable
pastor of the Wesleyan Church at The Rev. E. Bastin; formerly
Wanchai, has been transferred to the Coylen mission fold.
countera with armed criminals, diseases gives two cases of whether on the island or the main-diphtheria, the sufferers in both land, also with European officers cases being, Portuguese. fnvolved. To take one affair still familiar to most residents of some yours standing, there was the sen- sational shooting incident in Gres- son Street, when the police were faced with
exhibition of extreme
the desperation on part of the underworld of crime. 1 80 happens. that yesterday's incident occurred soon after particular attention had been drawn to the increasing crime wave
an
The as. Kochow; arriving this morning, reports having been ashore at Samshul, but was re- loated without damage.
The Rev. and Mrs. E. Dewstowe recently celebrated their silver wedding. Mr. Dowstowe is Chair man of the Wesleyan Mission, South China District.
MAÇÃO NOTES:
SOME INTERESTING ITEMS.,
The Very Idea!
"The barber
was very chootfal and chatty as he lathered his customer's chin.
The Portuguese transport "Pero de Alemquer," which arrived from Portugal about a month ago and
"No, sir," he said, "I used. has since remained at anchor in the new port at Macao unloading give credit, but I dont now, stores and supplies, is proceeding fact, nobody asks for it now." to Shanghal to relieve the crew How's that?" asked the dus- of the Portguguese cruiser "Ada- tomer. master" at presont stationed at
"Well, sir, I once had a set of Shanghai. On her return from customers who used to ask me to Shanghai the transport will go chalk it up, but they kept me wait- into dock at Hongkong before pro-ing so long that I got tired of keep- coeding on her return trip to ing books and started a nesv Portugal.
Bishop of Ancas on Tour. His Lordship the Bishop of Ma-, cho has returned from tour of the Chinese districts of his diocese and expresses himself well pleased with the work that is go- ing on in the Portuguese missions among the Chinese,
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Photographic Exhibition, The Portugueso at Macao are making every effort so that the Photographic Exhibition to take place in January, next will be a success. A particularly large en- It is understood that Captain try is expected from Japan. From Smith, of the ss. Wing Hong, has Hongkong tao a good number of applied for a Marine Court of En- entries is expected, and Mucas quiry in respect of the recent col-hás recently been visited by num- Llision between that ship and thebers of photographers from Hong-
a... Anjou in the West River.
Shanghai, and local residents might assume that they are observ- ing a reflection of such conditions here. But just as the Sydney Street affair did not make London any the less well-conducted in com- parison with other great cities of the world, so Hongkong cannot be termed the more crime-ridden by Latest announcements are to the reason of an occasional outbreak of effect that the s.s. Morea, con- the nature under consideration,veying the mails from London dated November 3, and a large however, regrettable from all points number of returning residents-boon promised for the Art Section of view, If anything, it has ghin will not berth until 5 p.m. to-day.
A collision occurred yesterday at we have a body of men ready to do Sheung Shui between motor lorry their
duty in the face of the great- No. 2175 and a military lorry No. est danger. The record is one of 1272. The collision was a slight bravery on the part of all concern-being damaged to a very small ex one, and resulted in lorry No. 2176
ed-there was, for instance, the tent. outstanding case of the unarmed'
Hongkong Telegraph. emphasised that in our police force
THURSDAY, DEC, 8, 1927.
YESTERDAY'S
SHOOTING AFFAIR.
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kong, who will naturally contri- bute a good number of pictures to the sections confined to Macao scenery, commercial activities at Macho, and Macao customs and local practices.
Among the pictures which have
are a number of paintings and sketches by Chinnery, Baptisto, Capt. Elliot, and others, all of great historical interest. Many old photographs and a number of paintings and sketches by modern This exhibition is probably the painters have also been promised. first of its kind and will evidently arouse an unprecedented interest
...Race Meeting.
system. Whenever I shoved one of them I put a little hick in his nose and kept tally that way. It was wonderful how soon they went back to the old plan of paying for each shave at the time."
The customer's volce trembled slightly as his lathered lips moved, and he said:-
י יִיי
"Do you object to being paid in advance.**
Beat me, kick me, cheat me, lék
me,
Throw me down the stairs; Gash, me, pound me, slash mé,
hound me,
Make me say my prayers: Though we'll always have
fight.
Life, I'll love you just for spite!
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Mrs. Bridget Williams, of Poplar-street, Canning Town, who matitia, a skin disease, from the stated that she contracted fur collar of a coat, was awarded £50, with costs, at Bow County Victoria Dock-road, Canning Town, Court, against Mrs. Jane Lewis, of
for breach of warranty in the sale of the cout, which was bought, at her shop.
骨
"Has your husband any means?"
when a wife made an application to asked the Willesden magistrate
him
The wife: Yes, 1 happen to know that he is a member of a yacht club.
.
The husband, in surprise: May I ask how you obtained that in- formation? The last Race Meeting of the Wife: Certainly. I
searched Macao Race Club for this year your pockets while you were in the takes place at Macuo on Sunday, bath and found the receipt for December. 11th. The entry is your subscription. good one and local interest in rac- ing is slowly, but surely, being aroused. For the, convenience of
She shyly entered the bank, and Hongkong racing enthusiasts going up to one of the pay clerks special excursion steamer, the cheque.
presented him with a crossed
"I'm
said Langshan, will make the trip over from Hongkong, leaving the British Colony at 8.30 am., and leaving Macao, on the return trip
Chinese police searcher who tackled march through the Western Dis world.
The K.O.S.B. carried out an art circles in this part of the his man in the course of the hue trict this morning, headed by the and cry, and was instantly shot pipes and band, returning to quar In the final re-ters at noon. The line of march The general public must have through the heart.
attracted many Chinese spectators, been startled by the details of the salt one of the robbers was killed the appearance of the troops being shooting affair in the city yesterday and two were taken into custody, decidedly, impressive. morning, which resulted in a re- ne seriously wounded. The ap- grettable series of casualties prehension of the fourth man is Amongst the passengers who among members of the police force, only a matter of time, and the arrived by the Empress of Russia this morning were Lady Tyrwhitt, who bravely tackled armed men, in courts of justice will age that, if Miss Tyrwhitt, Commander R. M. the course of their duties.
On guilt be proved, the fullest repara-Hunt, Paymaster E. T. Green, Flight Lieut. J. A. McDonald first sight the tendency may be to [tion will be made. The hold-up of Miss A. Brennan, Mr. and Mrs. A. suppose that serious crime has at a small restaurant, with its miser-McAlpine and Mr. H. A. L. Conant. last become more pronounced in the able haul, has had a result which Colony, as in Shanghai and dse-the robbers certainly never bargain- where. This way of looking at the ed for. It should, despite the very matter would fittingly be described sad sequel for members of the force as alarmist, and, we think, unneces- and their dependents, be a warn- sarily so. When we come ing and a deterrent to the criminals analyse the crime position in Hong-fin our midst, and a reassurance to kong, it is found that there is no the public that the defence of law marked increase in the incidence of and order is, as ever, in capable serious felonies; and that a few bands. armed and desperate mer succeeded
to
in making a very serious resistance, is but one of those unfortunate events in the history of a big city which are almost incidental to the successful suppression of criminal activities: There are dozens of armed robberies here every year, most of them of a minor character, in which men threnten their victims with diggers or pistols. True it is that the use of firentma has come increasingly into the picture within recent years, and police precautions have had to be redoubled in eonse-
At Lung Wa Tau yesterday, a motor cycle. The rider failed to Chinese was knocked down by a stop after the accident, and did not notify the police. The injured Hospital for attention. The ident- man was sent to the Kwong Wah ity of the cyclist has not yet been established.
freights.
at 5 p.m.
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FINES FOR OWNERS OF UNLICENSED DOGS.
BATCH OF CASES THIS MORNING.
Among the weekly batch of gum- monses against dog owners heard at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning were several cases in which
very sorry," he
politely, but I cannot pay this across the counter."
"Oh, never mind," she said with an engaging smille. " come, round that side."
Mr. Jolly, counsel, cross-ex- amining a man in Mr. Justice Eve's Court recently: Are you a lay preacher?
The man: Am 1 what? Do you preach àt all on Sunday? -What do you mean? I am a wheel-wright.
don't understand what you mean, Are you also a preacher 7-I
go into the pulpit?
Mr. Justico Eve: Do you ever
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"Iknow," spoke up a bright little fellow. "A statesman is a man who goes around making good speeches."
A youthful foki of a Chinese medicine shop, at No. 400 Des Voeux Road West, was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital European residents of the Penin- The man: This is the nearest at 3 o'clock this morning, after sula wore charged with keeping I have ever been to one. Britain's Labour Lenders, having been injured in the head animals without an appropriate
and body when a few, sacks have been speculating on
Political writers at Home who medicine, stored in an attic, fell tendeat of Police.
oflicense from the Captain Superin-
And this happened in Massa- sible change in the leadership of
a pos-on him while he was asleep.
A lady who answered a summons | chusetts.. A school committe- was visiting a classroom. taken out against her husband, for man
what premature, for it is now an- departures, of which six and four forward by Mr. R. G. Witchell the Labour Party have been some reports gave 15 arrivals and 13 dog without a license was fined $6.
This morning's Harbour Office keeping a black and brown mongrel After the class had read one of Webster's speeches, the visitor nsk- nounced that Mr. Ramsay Mat-respectively were British, leaving whose offence was that of keeping
A plea of forgetfulness was put ed "one boy, "Who was Webster?". "A statesman," the boy replied. Donald has been unanimously
"But what is a statesman?" the 68 vessels in habour, British 27.a fox-terrier without a license. visitor asked. Tonnage showed a reduction, but The defendant" said that it was a appointed Chairman and Par- there were good British cargo re-matter of not renewing his old speeches," replied the lad.
"A man who goes around making liamentary Leader" of the Party,gistries, making the second best license, A fine was imposed.
"That is not quite right,” said. whilst Mr..J. R. Clynes continues inward and the two best through Mr. F. E. Lawrence was also the committéeman. "I go around to be the Deputy Chairman.
fined $5 for keeping a brown dog making speeches yet I am not a quence, yet the nuthorities can beThere were fears a few months Pleading guilty to a charge of said that he was under the impres
without a license. The defendant statesman.' said to have tackled the problem of ago, following Mr. MacDonald's larceny of two iron shackles and asion that a dog did not require' a the new type of criminal with a illness in the United States, that hammer from on board the s.3. license until six months old.
President Pierce yesterday, good deal of success, and we are he would have to retire from Chinese was this morning sen- C. O. Baptistn, of No. 568, wathan 窳 A fine of $5 was imposed on Mr.
very far behind the bad record of active participation in politient tenced to six weeks' hard labour Road, for keeping an unlicensed
He rushed into the bar. "Give such places as Shanghai, and even, life, but, happily, these have not by MD W. Schofield at the Kow-Airedale dog, while a summons
been realised. All Parties will loon Magistracy.
me a pint of beer before the row Mr. A. M. against Mr. A. Rosini of No. 311. starts," he said." latterly, of Singapore, as regards her with gratification that there Miller, of the Robert Dollar Line, Nathan Road, for keeping two chow
dogs with ut licenses, was adjourn and he promptly drank it."Give The barman produced the drink the cases of murders and hold-ups is every prospect of, Mr. Mac-prosecuted.
d for one week, the defendant fail-me another pint, quick, before the by what have come to be known as Donald leading the Labourites for "gunmen." Statistics of local crime undoubtedly proved himself the boarded the s.s. President Pierce,
ing to appear this mornig. an indefinite period, for he has Of persons who unlawfully available, for last year and for 1925, right man for the post. Like and sentenced to two months' actually suggest that there has been many another politician, in his imprisonment at the Marine adiminution in the incidence of volutionary, in outlook, but with found to be returned
earlier days he was rather re- Court yesterday, two were serious felonies of all types. Yes age has come a more balanced shees on their receipt at Central. terday's affair grew into the grave outlook on life, whilst the sober- They were later brought up on Paris occurrence it was, owing to the ing effects of responsibility, fol- this charge, and were sentenced Brussels
lowing his brief period as Prime to a further four months impri-Amsterdam police coming upon the armed rob-Minister, are atill apparent in his sonment.
Berlin bers as they were leaving the scene attitude to the big questions of 1
Copenhagen the day. A of their haul. The robbery itself
of
Vienna' mental power and undoubted The funeral service over the re- Helsingfors was similar to several others within ability, Mr. MacDonald has won mains of the late Special Constablé Lisbon past months, and the proceeds of the hearts of many who have no G. V. Ivanoff, the Russian rites Bucharest
with sympathy
bis political having been said, took place at Buenos Aires the affair were small, just a couple opinions. During his prolonged Lokawel Cemetery, Shanghai, last Shanghal Had the absence from the House of Com-Sunday afternoon. Large numbers Yokohama men got clear away, the report of mons this year, Mr. Clynes ably of friends, former brother officers, New York
and members of the Russian and
Geneva the robbery would not, have filled deputed for him. Happily international communities, attend-stockholm more than a few lines of the news-counted an extremist-they are recalled, received shot wounds on Prague
ed. The gallant Special, it will be Oslo paper columns. It happened that both Constitutional Labourites Wednesday night which caused his Madrid fighting for a cause which they death on Thursday. With Constable Athens believe to be right. So long as Ferguson he was in the vicinity of Rio the Labour Party is directed by Honan Road Bridge. when armed Bombay them, there need be no fear of ruffians shot at Specials on duty Hongkong its energies being turned in the there. Hearing the sound of shots, Silver (spot) direction of revolutionary ache intercepted a fleeing Chinese, Silver (forward) tivity,
and was shot by him.
of hundred dollars or so.
they were stopped, showed fight, and possibly after realis ing that they
made their
Case far more
red
des perate by drawing arms on the
had
An
neither of these men
marked
to be
bani-
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