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Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant graphy lesson)"Now, can Secretary for Chinese Affairs, ap-body tell me whore we find peared before Mr. W. Schofield, at mangosa?"

· The B. I. 9.a. Takliwa, from the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- Precocious Child "Yea, air, Amoy, is due here on Saturdaying, to prosecuta a Chincao on a where woman goo8," afternoon.

charge of harbouring a girl under the age of 21. The P. and Q. 8.8. Mirzapare, The defendant said that the missed from a cotton mill confess A. Riga girl who had been dis from Shanghal, is due here at 6 am.girl had wanted to marry him anded after her arrest that In revenge on the 25th Instant,

had gone to his place in Ping Shan, who set fire to the premises, In Chinese territory. They later destroying £40,000 worth of pro- mother had seen him about her Idle. came to Hongkong. The girl's porty, and rendering 500 workers. daughter and the defendant had

foundation stone of the new St. H.E. The Governor will lay the Stephen's College premises at Stanley on April 27th.

The motor vessel Formosa (Swed ish East Asiatic Co., Ltd.), left a due here on or about the 27th Hamburg on the 17th March and April.

promised to pay her the necessary Mr. Clarke Hall, at Old-street. heard nothing from the mother Woman: No, I was intoxicated. money for the marriage. He had Police Count: Were you drunk? who had received the suggestion with disfavour. -.

Solicitor, at Bow County Court: They went home after the quarrelt

His Worship said that the de-fan: A policeman took charge of fendant's statement amounted to a them; I don't think he took them There will be a children's after-plea of guilty,

home! noon at the Helena May Instituto

Wife at Kingston: The last Mr. Williams said this was a money I had from my husband on Friday, 30th March, at 5 p.m. case,which he had not been very was 2s. 6d. and a calendar for (Children's songs, Games and anxious to bring to Court. The 1929. stories)--Advt.

girl was keen on the man and he was willing to marry her, but no The 8.8. Seistan, arriving from amiable agreement could be come of the impossibility of selling soy- Everybody knows the old story Singapore with 97 deck passento, on account of the defendant ereigns for a shilling. It is still gers, reports the death of one being unable to produce the money as true as ever, as. Tom Griffiths, Chine male en route on March 19th. from chronic malaria.

On this naval base question, as on many others concerned with Imperial defonce, the Labour Panty appears to hold essentially parochial ideas. It refuses to see that a base bordering on the Pacific is imperative. Mention was made by a Labourite in last The ordinary general meeting of week's debate that there is accom-the Douglas Steamship Company, Ltd., will be held at the Company's modation available at Hongkong, offices, P. and O., Building. on but the point appears to have been Monday, April 2, at 11 am, overlooked that, by the terms of the Washington Convention, we are not permitted to extend the station here. That was certainly a factor in the selection of Singa- pore as the site of the bane. Wo

We are naked to state that the billiards match between Mr. E. D. Bush and Mr. A. J. Osmund, at the. Club Lusitano to-night, will start at 9 p.m., instead of 9.15 p.m.

from Haiphong and Holhow, re. The s.8. New Mathilde, arriving ports the death of a Chinese quar- termaster, Leong Chan, at Hongay, on March 16th, the cause being given as tubercular pneumonia..

His Worship, after considera- Labour member of Parliament has tion, said that he, was inclined to just proved.. Among his change. bind the defendant over to come for a £5 note at the lobby post- but on Mr. Williams remarking: Mr. Griffiths was handed a golden.. up for judgment when called upon, office of the House of Commons, that that would not probably sovereign. satisfy the girl's mother, his Wor- has not circulated in England, and` Since 1914 gold coin

ship adjourned the case until Mr. Griffiths at once decided to Saturday for consideration. have some fun with his fellow membors. "Will you give me half a crowh for this sovereign?" he demanded of several fellow M.P.'s.. A chorus of derisive laughter greated him, "Not to-day, thanks," one legislator said. "We've scen em before, Tom," laughed än- other. Mr. Griffiths lowered the price to a shilling, but there were still no takers.. And then he walk- ed back to the postoffice and ex- changed the coin for a pound note,

the wise legislators faded away. and placed in his pocket, while which he ostentatiously folded.

FLED FROM "RED" TERROR.

CHINESE WOMEN GAIN THE COURT'S SYMPATHY,

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Two elderly Chinese women told Magistrate this morning when they a tragic story to the Kowloon were charged with having a quantity of pine needles in their possession at Customs Pass, Kow-

loon City.

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Lawyer:-"When I was a boy my highest ambition was to be a pirate."

Client; "You're in luck. It en't every man who can realise the dreams of his youth.”

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The defendants admitted having The s.s. Sanning, arriving from taken the pine from a Government Wuchow last night, was in colll-Plantation but pleaded int they berthing. Minor damage was in-they were committing any offence, sion with s.8. Kwong Tung whilst were strangers and did not know flicted to both ships, but this was They had only recently arrived in insufficient to delay the sailing of the Colony from the Hoffung dis- strange to say, is the American Mayfair's latest fascination, either vessel.

trict, from which they had been voice. Gone into the limbo of un-: driven by the Communists, who fashionable monstrosities It is This morning's Harbour Office had destroyed their houses and alleged, are the Oxford drawl and reports gave a heavy st of ar-property.They came to Hongkong the public school boy'a accent, rivals and departures, with British as refugees and were penniless, which have reigned supreme in topping the list with 17 and 10 As soon as conditions improved palite British society from time under the respective headings. In their country, they would re immemorial. "Americancac" on- Tonnage was not as good as might turn.

joys, a waxing popularity. One

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In popularity of American pro-

number of American actors and nounciation Is the Increasing

actresses on the British atago now. being received into certain, social fastnesses.

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A scrap-fron merchant in Now York has posted the following notice at various dangerous cross- inga-

Go on! Take a Chance! We Buy the Bits.

Forthcoming weddings announc all know how keenly Aus-ed include that of Mr. H. S. Mar- tin, assistant accountant, 573 Na- tralia and New Zealand are sup- than Road, Kowloon, to Miss Z THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928.porting the scheme, and as Ad- Laikovetsky, 333 Nathan Road,

miralty experts are convinced of Kowloon.. its necessity, it does seem to us THE SINGAPORE BASE. that it is high time Labour ceased, Ita Il-informed criticisms. In saying so much, we incline to the Labour members of Parliament view that expenditure should be are still adhering to their policy of watched, so that there may be no abstruction in regard to the Singa-extravagance, but on the general pore, naval base. A week or so question of the desirability of ago, an attempt was made to secure pushing on with the undertaking a reduction in the vote car-marked there can be little room for diver for this project," but, like so many gence of opinion. other Labour motions, it falled, Since then, there have been further criticisms. from the same quarter.

Plain Speaking. What must strike the average read-

Lord Cushendun's Celtic spirit er of Parliamentary debates on this appears to have been thoroughly subject is that Labour is alwaye roused by the cool effrentery of the bringing forward rather senseless tussian delegates to the Disarma-have been expected under the cir- His Worship said that, under the pleas either for the curtailment of ment Commission. Where General cumstances, but there were some circumstances, he would register

good, cargoes registered. British conviction and merely caution expenditure on the undertaking, ordi, Marinia and M. Clausel; tem-carried three of the four heaviest defendants, for the abandonment of the whole porised by venturing the thought freights of the day, while the na scheme. Last week, it was sug-that the Russian total disarma-was well over 30,000 tons. At 9 tional total ander both headings gested that we should await the ment plan was neither acceptable.m. there remained 60 vessels in outcome of the American proposals nor rejectable as a whole, the Bri-harbour, of which 24 were British. for outlawing, war before spending tish representative went straight more money on the scheme, and to fundamentals, replied to M. Lit further arguments brought forward vinafl's two questions by three were What the site was

more pertinent ones, threw con

The local office of the Mercantile healthy and was, morpóver, aiderable doubt on the bona fides

Bank of India has received a tele exposed to attack from the of the Russian proposals; in a LINDBERGHI DECORATED BY vising that at the annual general seribed as the first partnership.

gram from the London office ad-

The ceremony of what is do land. On the irst-named of word, thoroughly castigated the Soviet, present and past. The at-

THE PRESIDENT. these points, we cannot see that tack surprised the assemblage,

meeting of shareholders a Anal marriage was performed in the dividend of 8% on the "A", "B", cellar of an undergraduates club the United States academic agitu perhaps because subtlety, which is

& "C" shares will be declared in the quadrangle of St. John's tion against war is likely to have herently a composition of British atonal Medal of Honour,

Continentally supposed to ho in- The blue ribbon of the Congres-(making 16% for the year 1927, College at Annapolis recently.

Iess Income Tax); that £35,000 be the effects making any modification of political oratory, was missing, but rarest American tribute to courage carried to Reserve Fund; and that copated wedding march

A jazz band broke into a syne..... the naval base project necessary, Lord Cushendunts to be commendand initiative, wis placed round £164,000 be carried forward. whilst the argument of Singapore ed for his vigorous declaration of the shoulders of Colonel Lind- being an unhealthy spot can cer-point which appears to have been sident Coolidge, who most heartily British opinion. He solzed on bergh, the famous airman, by Pre- tainly be regarded as an undue cm-missed by the majority of the de-congratulated the recipient on phasis of a factor of quite second-legates. Thoroughout the pon-achieving the greatest personal ary importance. Some strange con- derous document with its 63 Ar- triumph ever gained by an Ameri- ceptions of climatic conditions in declined to recognise the exis-

ticles, the Soviet has studiously can citizen.

The ceremony was witnessed by Singapore have now and then beentence of the League of Nations. the highest public officials in disclosed by the comment of people On the contrary, it seeks to estab- Washington-Reuter's American who do not know what they are ing naturally enough, references

lish an entirely new body, contain- Service.

Mile. Jane Bencuardt in the name substituted Until love dies.. Also writing about-witness the recent to. "bourgelos" and "toiling

part. To compensate for Mr. neither of us is under any obliga- observations of a prominent writer classes." To seek to debate the

M. Louis Verneuil, the adapter Lonsdale's crispness of dialogue, tion to support the other. at Home to the effect that white League can be regarded as little question under the auspices of the

There was no bride's bouquet troops could never. be stationed better than calculated impertin

who cannot rival the author in or ring. this, has made 880 af various there and that Indian troops could ence, while Lord Cushendun did

phrases not usually heard in polite not be regarded As satisfactory not, hesitate to discover a motive,

society, which give the French public a queer idea of English in view of the mutiny of need.not go into the British delc- the sabotage of the League. We

aristocratic manners, The plot: years ago!. With regard gate's reminders to M, Litvinoff of.

thus construed is a phantasy, but Hanoi, Mar. 22. the vulnerability of

the play was well received and Soviet interference with the do. the mestic affairs of other countries, for the murder of M. Noel, a Cus

The river plipt, Alexia, indicted pleased the first night.public. Paria site, we have no doubt that and the obvious point that unless toms employee, has been sentenced great popular favourite, made a

Brussels MIle. Jane Renouardt, who fa a this aspect of the question has been Russia was prepared radically to to penal servitude for life by the charming Mrs. Cheyney, while

Amsterdam thoroughly explored both by milf.change her foreign policy, her at Criminal Court, Indo-pacif

Copenhagen tary and naval experts!

Paul Amiot was admirable titude constitutes the greatest ob- stacle to the far-reaching pro- rivers in Tonkin, was charged with

Alexia, a pilot employed on the Charles the burglar-butler. - Further evidence of needless posals which she has brought for the murder of Noel, a Customa Labour concern is now forthcom-ward. It will be universally officer, by beating him to death ing in the allegations made in the greed that the ideal is one to be with a spannor, taken from a car House of Commons on Tuesday not feasible in the present genera-Haiphong to

cherished, but its attainment is in which they had proceeded from to the effect that the conditions tion, nor the next,

a lonely spot in a plantation. Afterwards, Alexis To-day's Observatory report Genova undor which War Department em-

sowed up the body in

statesThe anti-cyclone is central Milan ployees are obliged to live in.

sack and dumped it into the river over North China. The depression

Stockholm Singapore are a disgrace to Bri-and fairy play given by the chil-Bet sensation throughout may be expected along the south Athens

The proceeds of the concert near Hanol. The case has caused to central to the North-east of Hok-Oste tain. We assume that the refer-dren of the Garrison School in federalno-China, to the ac east coast of China and over tho

great sensation throughout kaldo, Moderate to fresh monsoon Prague fence is to pative employees, and ald of the Ministering Children's cased man was carrying on the oc- North China Sea. that, as they have often done when on to $221.48, which sum is being engaged in banditry, and the per-morrow Is-North-cast winds, Bliver (pot

League on March 1 and 2 amount-cupation of a river-pilot ho was also dealing with labour conditions in handed over to the Treasurer of petration of frauds on a large moderate; generally cloudy; some liver (forward)

The forecnat up to noon to Hongkong the Far East, the Labouritios the Military Branch,

some

to

MURDER OF CUSTOMS EMPLOYEE.

HANOI PILOT GETS LIFE SENTENCE.

scale.]

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"THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY" IN FRENCH.

as tho bridal pair came up the basement steps, and cheers" were given 'by five college friends of the brido- groom, dressed in girl's clothes. to represent bridesmaids.

"We do not consider the mar- viage ceremony to be essential," the bridegroom said, "but we Paris, Feb. 26.

realise that we have to con "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" form in some measure to the rules night at the Theatre Daunou, with death us do part we Was successfully produced Inat of apciety. For the words Until mentally

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