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PIRATES SEIZE JUNK.

SIX- CHINESE. HELD IN CAPTIVITY:

WOMAN RELEASED.

The mistress of a fishing boat, which was recently, pirated, and the crew kidnapped, arrived in the Colony yesterday and related a pitiful tale of Hardship to the local authorities.

CANTON TAXATION

SCHEME

PLAN FOR REHABILITATING THE NOTES.

THE LATEST IDEA.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SOME SHANGHAI TOPICS,

HOW THE OLD ORDER CHANGES.

"KING OF THE BEGGARS."

Reallaing that to launch another $10,000,000 loan from the already

(Our Own Correspondent.) · over-taxed, merchants, in Canton would be impracticable, some, on taxation:

Shanghai, Jan. 27. so-called, experts

"Sir Sidney, you son of a gup systems. In Canton, state that According to the report made by they have devised a good plan her,

It was in those unusually un- the woman to the police, the fish-by, which to obtain money from ing, boat was on a journey from the merchants and also to save conventional terms "that" Major Hongkong to Tolshan (in Chinese tha Central Bank notes, from fur- General A. E. Wardrop addressed tho, Gongul-General for Great Bri- waters) with 400 piculs of general ther docline.

suggested method is to lovytain in Shanghai, Sir Sidney Bar cargo, when she was attacked by pirates.

new taxation on several kinds of ton, at the farewell banquet ten- goods, including petroleum, where dered by something like twenty by a total of about $1,400,000 could nationalities to Major-General Sir It is John Duncan at the Astor House be collected every month. suggested that the taxes should be Hotel, which will go down. In the collected in silver, at least to the annals of the International Settic- extent of eighty per cent, and ment as a historic occasion, as then be spent in purchasing low- General Wardrop himself said. valued Central Bank notes. After The inspiration for the remark purchase, the notes would be handed in question came about in this over to the Government Treasury. manner. The honour of the Thus approximately $4,000,000 in evening having been done to notes would be secured by the Gov-Major-General Duncan, Sir Sidney ernment each month.

The first indication of the presence of pirates came when the boat was off Chung Chow Shi, in Chinese waters, eight miles west of Fan Tau Point, when several shots were fired at the fishing boat from another junk, the occupants of which shouted to the fishing boat, to stop.

When the order was complied with, the pirates boarded the junk and drove the crew into the hold, keeping them prisoners there for six days.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

1928.

MORE HANKOW

EXECUTIONS::

NEW FIETRATION PLANT

BATCH OF ARMED ROBBERS | PURIFYING OF HONGKONG'S

PAY PENALTY:

COMMUNISTS: ALSO;/

WATER.

EXCELLENT. RESULTS:

At Hanków, on January, 20th, The provision of the purest pos quite al number of executions took sible water supply for Hongkong place. Prominent among these is a matter of considerabla-impor- were five armed men who were tanco and judging from an insper- responsible for n big robbery at tion of the new. Altration › plant the Teng Tah Exchange Company installed at Bowen Road, this on-Faucheong Road in the S.A D. morning, the latest installation No. 3. Their capture was due to marks a decided step in this direc- smart police, work on the part of tions: Press representatives were the SAD. police force five days conducted over the plant by Mr. AW: J. Simmons, of the P.W.D., after the ovent.

tho Paterson Engineering Co. and Mr. T Buckle, representing London, whose rapid gravity fil- tration plant has now been

At the trial evidence was given which proved that the erimo was committed with the assistance of two motor cars which were. hired installed. one from the Lee Lee Garage on the Hochen Maloo and the other from the Han-Lee Garage in the same neighbourhood...

In addition to the detailed account of the plant, given below. it is interesting to note that this system, though occupying a smal} area, is much simpler to operate than the ordinary sand beds, with a consequent big saving of time and operating

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expenaca,

Tho' chauffeurs of both those cars were arrested and are still detained. The six prisoners who took part in the robbery and a tailor who received a portion of similar plant is being installed in the loot were takon. on January connexion with the Shing Mun 20th to Garrison Headquarters, and this latter will be capable of Valley scheme, on the peninsula, with the record of the crime, the dealing with 6,000,000 gallons of evidence, takon and, the proofs of

"water daily. The Bowen Road gullt of the accused. Of these plant, when fully operating, can one was the servant of a military deal with 3,000,000 gallons of officer. The tailor and the ser-

water per day. At present this the five who were regarded as full capacity, is supplying the dis prime movers in the robbery were trict between Arsonal Street and taken out and shot by the order the Sincere Company's store. of the Garrison Commander..

Further Executions.

Barton rose to his feet to propose According to an official report the toast of welcome to Sir John's from, Canton, the total value of successor.. Sir Sidney made seve To Unknown Spot, í Central Bank notes now in the ral allusions, to that sense of The pirates boarded the fishing market is about $27,000,000, and strangeness which an exile from boat on January 6th. At mid consequently If the above-mentioned Home like Major-General Wardrop night on January 12th, the boat, proposal were carried out, In alx must undoubtedly feel to find him- 'with all hands, was beached ut months' time the authoritites would self a stranger within their gatos, vant are still under detention, but plant, which is not yet working at

a spot unknown to the mistress. be able to restore the financial post-and he went to great pains in an effort to make the distinguished The pirates then took the mistresstion of the province to normal.. and the boat's crew to a hit,

The crux of the question is whe-guest feel at home in their midst. ther the merchants, who loan- Incidentally, Sir Sidney stress ed $10,000,000 to the Governmented the peculiar satisfaction he felt, recently and also suffered consider as the son of an erstwhile gunner bly during the Communist dis-officer at Woolwich, to extend the turbances, would be able to right hand of fellowship to an- pay the suggested new taxes?qther gunner officer, and it was Another question being asked this declaration that prompted the Chinesa iR whether, Major-General Wardrop to eschew by

the $1,400,000 could be for once all conventional codes collected, the Government would not and adopt a breezy mode of speech be inclined to use it to meet military that is popularly supposed to be expenses in the East River districts. the monopoly of the Navy folks.

The last vestige of official stiff neas vanished from the evening's proceedings when Major-General Wardrop, adverting to sporting

where they were kept for ten days. On January 23rd, again at the midnight hour, the pirates blind folded the mistress and marched her away for about an hour and a ulf, at the end of which time they gave her a dollar and released hat, giving her Instructions to proceed to Hongkong to raise a ransom for those who were left behind.

the the chemicals used for

By use of the now plant, there 8 but little wastage of water and the various operating sections are took place. In this case

A little later another execution to a large extend automatic. The purifying prisoner was accused of various water are .55 grains lonely held ups, some of, which

of had been proved against him, and alumins and 1 grain per gallon of

ber gallon of sulphate when caught he was carrying a time. The method of mixing these pistel in which it was alleged and ingredients and discharging them apparently proved he had threaten into the water is of the simplest edivarious people for purpose of description, and, by tracing the robbery. He was a native of Water through the various stages, Vienming in Hunch, 26 yours of be, is able to understand the real age and named Tsong Hai-shengerits of the plant and the resulting

Six in Captivity. After a whole day's wandering, the woman finally came to the shore where she boarded a junk there arrived in Hongkong on the sailing for Chin Wun, and from the men stating that they want the themes, facetiously declared that Towards evening a.further five flarity of the filtered water.

29th.

She stated to the police yester- day that her three children, her father-in-law and two members of the crew were being kept prisoners by the Briganda.

According to the woman's state- ment, the pirates- merely told her to proceed to Hongkong for ran Bom, but did not indicate what Bum was required, or to whom t wps to bo paid..

MORE NANKING UNREST.

BRITISH VICE-CONSULATE

. LOOTED.

Nanking, Jan. 31. An attack on the British Vice Consulate was recently made, when the building again was loot- ed.--Naral Wireless.

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A report from Canton says that the small gunboats now anchored in Canton River have refused to leave for other districts in Kwanglang, Government to pay them,, first of

THE FIRE-CRACKER

NUISANCE.

SEVEN PERSONS IN ONE

Cleaning Filter Beds.

he had heard with considerable were led out and executed. These ail, their unpaid salaries in silver apprehension of that equine genus, men were Wu Yu-ming, native of comn.

An interesting demonstration of the Chiua pony, and its reputa-Wuchang, Chen Han-taing, of Han the methods of cleaning the filter tion for velocity and even fero-yang, Wang Tsik-chi also of. Han- beds was given this morning.. Com- elty. After that, the new G.O.C. yang, Chang Han of Síaokan, and could not but establish an irresis-Wang Chang-wu of suchang. pressed air was first of all forced through the beds from the bottom, tible claim to popularity,

They wore aged respectively 24, and this by agitating the water, 30, 23, 17 and 20. -

stirred up all the accumulated im The Feminist Movement.

All were guilty of being con-purities, after which water was Everything changes, and we cerned in Bolshevik, intrigues, and used for flushing. The result was change with it. The truth of this the printers of most of the Com-that the operation was completed in trite Anying was forcibly impress-munist pamphlets with which an effective manner in about ten A large number of summonses hai who has recently returned to They were seized in a raid on the

ed on a former resident of Shang-Hankow has recently been flooded. minutes.

Finally, the work on container dealing with breaches of the re-this part of the world after a Wei-hsien printing works in Dah reservoirs Was 'demonstrated, gulutions governing the firing of crackers during the Chinese New engthy sojourn under other skies. Chal street and caught in the act and Year festival, were heard before sight of the stately plles tower- to.

Curiously enough, it was not the of printing the pamphlets.referred depth of Altered. Major C. Willson at the Centraling above the Bund that had risen, Police Court this morning.

mushroom-like, during his ab-

HOUSE FINED♪

All the defendants. pleaded sence that most impressed him, guilty, and in 34 cases a dollar but rather the sweeping changes fine was inflicted on the charge that had occurred within the so- of firing crackers at other than cial life of the Chinese people in the permitted times.

the International Settlement of Shanghai.

In one case, seven tenants of Lee Yuen Street, which is near the Royal Naval Hospital, were sammaned for firing crackers within an area proscribed by the Regulations.

Yang Sen's Troops Withdraw.

Jchang, Jan. 31. The movements initiated by General Yang Sen for withdraw- ing his troops, consequent upon trouble arising in Szechuan, came to an end to-day when the last rackers in the contingents left.

BANISHEE'S RETURN.

SAYS "REDS" DESTROYED- HIS HOME.

although tliere Was

water of seven feet, a little more light would have made it easy to read an ordinary visiting card placed on the bottom of the container.

The plant installed at Bowen Road is the first of its kind to oper nte in the Colony, and future re- sults will be watched with interest. (Continued on Page B.)

POLICE REPROVED.

KEPT IN CUSTODY FOR

FIGHTING."

When two Chinese were charg- ed with street-fighting at the Central Police Court this morning, Mr. R. E. Lindsell enquired why they were kept in custody and re-

Not the least of these changes that have made a profound im-

A. revision, of a man's criminal pression on the gentleman in record was ordered by Mr. W. question is the freedom, from atrney this morning, when it was Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- sucial and economic standpoint, stated that a banishee's previous Complaints were made by the that seems to have bean magically conviction had been omitted from Hospital staff that patients were won by the women and girls of his record. being disturbed by the fring of the Chinese community. A visit

neighbourhood, of a Sunday afternoon to the pala The defendant, who was charged The small packages were had tial tea-rooms of the Majestic with returning to Hongkong after Shortly after the completion of enough, but it was the long strings Hotel proved a veritable eye-being banished from the Colony this evacuation, the 3rd Army which gave off a continuous roar opener. arrived and these men were sulasting for as long as 15 minutes There he found that two-thirds plemented by a part of the 2nd at one time, which caused the most of the huge thyong crowding the Army.

annoyance, in the view of the Hos- ballroom were Chinese young wo- On production of the defen Matters here are quiet.-Naval

pital staff.

men' of the better class who were dant's record, his Worship remark Wirelesu.

The nature of the offence was dancing the Tange, the fox-trated that he could not see that any carefully explained to the defen- and the one-step with a confidence offence had been proved against The defendants were discharged, dants, who were then fined $5 and self-assurance as if to the the defendant except that he had the prosecuting police officer each and warned against a repeti- manner born. This was not been banished for five years.

stating he would look into the enough. Some of them were ac- It was stated that, according to matter and report to his Worship. tually in, the throes of the Charles-n subsequent message received ton's intrleate gyrations.

from the Finger. Prints Office, the defendant had been convicted

́CABLES v."WIRELESS.

CONFERENCE TAKES FURTHER VIEWS.

London, Jan. 31.

tion,

COOKBOY. CAUGHT.

eyes, as only a few years ago these

Before the imperial Wireless SENTENCED FOR THEFT FROM in a public place, much less allow

and Cables Conference to-day, Lord' Inverenorth and Mr. Kella- way gaye information regarding

EUROPEAN..

charge of stealing the property. E. Lindsell this morning, on a

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The Beggar Problem.

for five years, said. that his home in Hoi Fung had been destroyed by Che "Reds."

fused bail. It was an ordinary case of Oghting, in the street in which only fisticuffs were exchang ed, he pointed out."

under the Opium Ordinance before HOW MUCH DO YOU

he was lignished.

for twenty-four hours for the de- His Worship adjourned the case

fendant's record to be revised.

UNLICENSED' 'HAWKER

FINED...

TOLD HE MUST' FIND'

OTHER WORK: "^

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KNOW?

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

edge paper has been taken from The following general know-

the Daily Express,

Answers, for those who need 'them, will be found on Page 14

of this issue.

He could, scarcely believe his

self-same girls would not have thought of exhibiting themselves

young men to hold them round the waist. But it should be some con-- As a sequel to the recent theft solation to him to know that the the services of the Marconi Wire of jewellery and money valued at same femininity who attend tea- less Telegraph Company and the over $300 from Mrs. Robertson, dances also have been instru attitude of the Company to the No. 9, Lyttleton Road, who said mental in arousing public opinion problems arising out of the dove- lopment and control of the tele-they were taken from a locked box, that has resulted in the ameliora- a cook-boy, employed by Mrs. tlon of working conditions in con- graphic services of the Empire.

Robertson, appeared before Mr. Rnection with child labour. Mr. Mellollau. presented the views of the Wireless Telegraph Company of South Africa, and a

It appears that, a report was deputation from the Empire Presu

It is a matter of gratifiention to Union was received,British Wire-made to the Police, following die-

covery of the theft, and Sergeant the foreign community that in- ICEB.

Kennear was sent to the house to fluential Chinese, women are ac investigato To searched the lively interesting themselves in effects of the defondant, who had the beggar problem, which they RUBBER PRODUCTION. been given one month's notice of are rightly envisaging from the dismissal, but did not come across objective, standpoint of public the missing jewellery until he health, to which the promiscuity entered the coul cellar, There of beggars in the streets of the he found some of the.. missing city is a distinct mennee... articles of jewellery as well as A forceful illustration of this $40 in money. The remainder of has been latterly forthcoming dur- It is officially announced that the the stolen property appeared to lng the incidence, of the Chinese previously applied for a licence, 20.

New Year when the members of but had been refused on the percentage standard of the produc- have been disposed of. tion of rubber exportable at the Ila Worship imposed a sentence | Shanghai's begging fraternity ground that he was a strong and, minimum rate of duty from Ceylon of three months hard labour, and literally overran the Settlement. robust man and Malaya for the quarters com-made an order for the return of They reaped a veritable allver and mencing on February 1st, will be the $40 and jewellery recovered to 60-percentReuter.

SIXTY PER CENT. FOR CURRENT QUARTER.

London, Jan. 81.

the complainant, n

(Continued on Page 11.)

With two, previoris convictions, for similar offences, an unlicensed hawker was fined $10.6y Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- trazy this morning, for selling watercress without a licence.

The defendunt appealed to the Bench to be recommended for a licence, as, he had a wife and family to support..

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Sergeant Hargreaves informed his Worship that the defendant had

Hia Worship pointed out to the defendant that he would have to 11 sock work in other directions./..

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