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CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE

TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

basis of taxation in preparation for the time when the oplum re- venue would be no moro. How-

ALL THE WHILE THERE ARE FOOLS ever, other circumstances have THREE WILL BE KNAVES.-G. E. since Intervened which have mado Cattermole. the income from these two sources extremely useful.

Happily, Hongkong has been able to weather the worst crisis in Its history without having any recourse to new. taxation, and it can still be said that' wo are a lightly-taxed people; although, of course, that clrcumstance. is 'more

We learn that Mrs. R. H. Kote- wall, who has been in the Peak Hospital for six weeks, was this morning successfully operated upon.

MF. G. U. da Roza and Mr. L. A. da Rocha have been authorized to sign for Messrs. J. M. da Rocha and Co., jointly per procuration.

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SNATCHERS SMARTLY

PUNISHED.

The Very Idea!

GAOL AND BIRCH FOR

It seems the less you wear the ONE MAN.

botter your health. At least, f you take the words of Dr. Leon When a man pleaded guilty this Bernard, professor at the Paris morning, in Major C. Willson's Faculty of Medicine at their face Court, to snatching a handbag from value.

Chinese lady in Ice House Street |last night, at about 11, pan, his Worship sentenced him to six months hard labour and twenty atrokes of the birch.

The contents of the bag were not of great intrinsic value, being only chief and some keys. forty cents in money, a handker

The police told his Worship that the complainant was attacked in Ico House, Street, near Chator Rond, and that the defendant would have mudo off but for an Indian constable who gave chase,

The defendant said another, per-

than, offset by the extremely high the Empress of Canada on April The silk forwarded from here by level of living coats. When the 18th arrived in New York (St. time does come for considering John's Park) on May 10th having whether, fresh imposts are neces-been 22 days in transit.. sary, we might do far worse than

Baron K. Matsui, the Japanese profit from the suggestions now Ambassador to Great Britain, put forward in Singapore. Cor-passed through the Colony tainly, the general principles of Japan on the 8: Haruna Maru, any new taxation in the future accompanied by Baroness Matsui should be those postulated by the

The Rev. E. C. Lobenstine, who

Conference passed, Missionary through the Colony yesterday by the 8.8. Haruna Maru, on his way to Japan.

sen attacked the lady and handed him the purse with instructions to "run." Not knowing what was taking place, he took the purse and

NO PERIODIC REFILLING Singapore Committee-freedom of has been attending the Jerusalem ran, but was subsequently arrested.

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TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1928.

TAXATION POINTS.

As will have been noticed from our issue of yesterday, Singapore has been considering the question

Major Willson remarked that that, was as good as an admission of receiving, and passed sentence as stated above.

Ho claims, does this medical sage, that our own giddy flappers, covered by a few strips of this and who lightly trip down the street

to pneumonia and influenza than fewer of that, are less susceptible the husky he-men, all wrapped up in their coats, and woollen

mufflers.

more

"The modern woman weara silk, satin, and fine wollen garments; materials which are much closely woven than man's ments and isolate the body per- fectly," Bernard saya.'

gar-

"Moreover, women cover the upper part of the body, which contains the organs particularly" sensitive to cold."

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Native: Sahib, I saw a lot of tiger tracks about a mile north of. here.

Hunter: Good! Which way in

the port, infrequent changes in Caxation, small cost of collection and relatively little opportunity

In another case, a Chinese who south? for evasion, Some of the taxes

In our list of donations publish- pleaded guilty to snatching a purse suggested, especially that on the

ed yesterday for the Sailors' and containing thirty cents, from a Tute" and on sweepstakes, ought Soldiers' Home, the name of Comman, was sentenced to two months The incident took to provide a good fell for raising modore Pearson was inadvertent-Hard labour.

They are all "go-getters" in California. One two-fisted-man, with-hair-on-his-chest, who was a

revenue here, whilst the argument fly left out. He contributed $20,00 place at Connaught Road Central "realtor," that is a denler in "real

against an Income Tax-that i should not be introduced until every

to the fund.

Convicted of ulowing away from other means of raising sufficient Singapore on board the s.s. Cremer, funda have been tried--is one with five Chinese were each fined $25, with the alternative of one month's' which we are in complete agree-hard labour, by Mr. W. Schofield at ment. In any event, the idea of the Kowloon Magistracy this.

morning. appointing a representative Com÷ mittee be examine the whole finan- cial situation and to report on future possibilities in the matter of taxation is one which can be commended, and if ever Hongkong needs to look ahead for a like purpose, this method of approach- ing the problem might with advan- Lage be copied.

yesterday afternoon.

MECHANIC

DAMAGES

MOTOR-CAR.

WOULDN'T PAY $5; HAS TC PAY $30.

"

estate," or land, was in New York one day, and seeing a church door open went in. A funeral service was just concluding, and friends of the decensed Was paying eulogistic tributes to the depart ed.

The minister-asked-if-anyone- else would like to say anything, and there being no immediate res ponse the California got up and

Owing to the heavy rain Jaut

- A Chinese employed as said, "Waal, I hadn't the pleasure night, niost vessels on the river run were delayed and arrived here late, mechanie by the Dairy Farm Com-of knowing the departed, but since you've given me this opportunity The Tai Lee was compelled to an-pany, at Pokfulam, appeared be- chor for ninety minutes, while the fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morn-of speakin', I'd like to say jest a Wing On, coming in at reduced ing, charged with driving a motor few, words about real estate

car without a licence.

Southern California P speed, lost even more time.

Whilst bis ship was approaching

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before

will be the conclusion that there Nationalists, but they will have her some 300 Whampão cadeta, UNAUTHORISED COLLECTOR spirits to be propitinted. But the is at present no need of finding sense chough we hope to appre-who are on their way to Shanghai

fresh sources of revenue.

will exercise sufficient contral

BEFORE COURT,

The car was stored in' the Dalry A report has been made to the Farm's garage and belonged to

"Converse loudly at card games, police by the On Fat Bicycle shop one of the employees of the Com

without stand behind players and advise of 610, Shanghai Street, to the pany. The defendant, effect that at 8 am, last night two the permission, took the car out them, correct their mistakes, help Chinese hired bicycles from the and drove it along Pokfulum Road, losers and supply them with shop and did not retura. The then on to Mount Davis Road, com- towels to wipe away the tears." The March on Peking.

missing bicycles are valued at $25. ing to grief shortly after turn. That's scientific card playing, ac ing into the latter road and doing cording to members of The Kibit zer Club, recently incorporated dumage to the rear mudguard of of possible fresh sources of in-subdued and uncertain after the While Marshal Chiang Kai-shek,

-West River navigation is improve the car to the extent of $15.

under the laws of Illinois. Friends Yes* come to replace the revenue Tainania debacle, hovers in the inx with a rise in the water.

The owner of the car, in order of would-be members are bo- abtained from opium The background, his ally, Marshal terday's return shows an increase

punishment for matter, however, hardly comen Feng Yu-hsiang, pursues a steady of 14 feet at Wuchow, but there to prevent any further pranks on ing cautioned that this State pro

Northward course unhampered by are. further reports of groundings, the part of the defendant, ordered vides capital within the realm of practical thought of resistance, and Yen none of which are serious, all ships him to pay $5 towards the cost murder.

fused to do this, hence his appear- It is curious that King Amanul❤ politics at the moment, for, as in Isi-shan, the wily Shansi tapan, having been refloated without dam- of repair. The defendant had re-

ance before the Magistrate. lah, who had no scruples about, the case of Hongkong, so in the has stolen a march on them both, age.

literally and figuratively, by a

His Worship ordered the defen-going down in a submariné, and Straits Settlements, there is not spectacular manoeuvre which bas very much likelihood of an early put him in possession of Tang Kongmoon yesterday, a Chinese dant to pay $20 compensation, or, about flying over London in an disappearance of income from the chow, only fifty miles from Tien greaser of the s.s. Tai Lee received in default, to serve ten days in aeroplane, thought twice Opium Monopoly. None the leggin. We do not intend to anti-serious injuries to his hand, which. He also imposed a fine of descending the Bradford pit at eipate events at Tientsin. The was caught in the fan engine. Ila for driving without a licence, Manchester. He waited till, the the report of the Committee announcement

was removed to the Kongmoon Hos- the alternative being ten days' first batch of men had returned aufely hofore he went down to that the fornign

hew hit souvenir piece of coal. appointed to investigate the ques-commanders have decided to form-pital for treatment where he will hard labour.

cordon within a 22

seven-mile probably remain for three weeks.

All three elements, air, water, and tion makes extremely interesting radius would indicate that it is reading, the, most satisfactory the intention of the Powers to in-

When the a.s. Hsin Wah arrived FUNDS FOR TEMPLE, earth, may well present terrors to the inexperienced mind, and in ench of them there, once lurked aspect of which to the taxpayer sist upon Tientsin as a neutral in the harbour from Canton on zone. This may not please the Saturday she brought down with

earth certainly produces a grimler race of slaves than the blue air where they are going to enlist in

and the blue water- circum- einte the lesson of Tsinanfu, and the army either, of General Ho An elderly Chinese appeared stance which may account for His The Singapore Committee,

W. Schofield, at the Majesty's hesitation. Ta-chun, the Defensive Coman-Kowloon Magistrney this morning, whilst agreeing with a continu-over, their forces to avert a similar Ying-ching or of General Chien before Mr.

catastrophe. The Nanking armies der of Shanghai and Woosung. on a charge of attempting to de anco of the existing measures for oncountered real warfare for the

The weather which Queen Vic- fraud a female inmate of No. 16, toria used to enjoy for all her reducing consumption of opium, first time and crumpled like corn

The theft of $23, from 2nd. Reclamation Street of twenty before reaper. We sincerely does not see how opium-smoking trust the Southern supporters now Scots Guards, was mentioned at himself as being authorised to col-frm of John Brown and Co. has Lieutenant J. A. Burns, of the cents, the defendant representing and on Clydeside the ship-building public ceremonies was traditional,

can be completely suppressed on the outskirts of Tientsin do not before the production of the drug challenge the merit of the Japan-morning when a yacht 'boy was ple of Yaumati.

the Kowloon Magistracy

lect money for the Han Man Tem-

a very similar reputation. When the Duchess of Bedford was is under effective control in all ese military dispositions by pro-

According to Inspector Fallon, launched for the Canadian Pacific poppy-growing countries.

voking conflict with the foreign charged with stealing the money The defenders. The control of. Tien- from the complainant on

plainant and asked for a small weather was so appallingly web ropson is that prohibition, under tsin will quickly follow the occu- the yacht, Gael, while at Lamma the defendant approached the com- Company by Mrs. Baldwin tho such circumstances, would entall pation by the Southerners of Pek-Island on Sunday last. The de donation for the Temple. A Chin- and dreary that people shook their ese detective happened to be, visit-heads and said that the record the creation of a preventive sering, and, there is no occasion to fendant was remanded till Fri

ing some friends at the house and would be broken this time. But quarrel about the smaller matter day afternoon. vice of auch dimensions, that the now. That Peking will soon come

at once questioned the legality of the sun came out a minute or two This morning's Harbour Office the man's action. On subsequent before the ceremony and continu-„ finances of the Colony could net under the Nationalist banner, support it. That is precisely the there can be little doubt. Mar-reports gave 19 arrivals and 21 de investigations from the Secretaryed do shine until the ship was shal Chang Tso-lin is the victim partures, of which five under each of the Temple it was discovered safely in the water and the tugs that the defendant was not an had time to get hold of her. Then standpoint of Hongkong also. In of circumstances beyond his con-heading were British, leaving 66 his Budget speech last year, H.E. trol and has been courageous vessels in harbour, British 22,

began soon afterwards, the Governor stated quite clearly enough to admit it. Rather than Tonnage showed a reduction and authorised person to collect con- It went in for the day, and snow

allow an accusation of placing inward freights were generally

A book which the defendant had brief appearance of "John Brown poor, but through returns gave high that the Government was quite himself before his country, he has individual figures. Japanese ves-in his possession when arrested weather may be taken as a happy willing to prohibit the consump- voluntarily conceded everything els returned the best freight contained the names of several augury for the luck of the new

ship. tion of opium here and to forego to his Southern faes so far, and figures, the other places being fill-other donors,

there is no reason to suppose thated by French and German.

A fine of $50, with the alterna- the revenue from this source na his policy will be altered when it

tive of three weeks' hard labour, soon as production and consump comes to the evacuation of Peking

Chu Chao-hsin, the former was imposed. tion were suppressed in China, but itself. Apparently Marshal Chiang Chinese delegate to the League of Nations, and now Commissioner that until then, prohibition would Kai-shek has rejected the offer of

a truce and has expressed his de-of Foreign Affairs of the Southern LAST NIGHT'S STORM, not be a practical proposition. termination to carry out the

Government, arrived by the day Like Singapore, this Colony Northern Expedition to the bitter boat from Canton yesterday. In- derives is goodly proportion of te end. If he really feels so inclin-tervlowed on the wharf regard. ing his mission, and asked whether revenue from oplum, the lasted, it is almost time he began to

do something, for he may find his it had anything to do with the statistics made available showing self-allotted task completed for Sino-Japanese conflict, Mr. Chu this to amount, after paying cost him by allies who have an axe to was very reticent and replied that of manufacture, to just over ton grind. The end may be more bit the purpose of his visit was im- por cent. of our total income. For ter for Chlang than he anticipates. portant and confidential. some years past, there has been

talk of the possibility of the

Bource

this

board

tributions.

OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN.

The first really heavy storm of the year broke over Hongkong about 10 o'clock last night, following a

but tho

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There's at least one delinquent taxpayer in Indianapolis who need not worry about boing dunned. The State tax board has decided that the bookkeeping and steng-. graphy involved would be prohibi- tive. He name is Gustav Papath- widokomounfrgcipulos.

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There is something sadly wrong. with present-day anducation. A recently for a young lady for the' humid day.

big commercial house advertised Dark low-hanging clouds In the counting house. About thirty up- early evening, presaged what was plicants presented themselves, and, The Bureau of Public Works at to come and soon there were vivid as a test," a simple column of Before the Chief Justlee (Sir Canton has advised owners of flashes of lightning, and loud pants money was given to be added. There were about fourteen items, revenue from this particular Henry Gompertz) the Kuala Lum-shops and houses along the streets of thunder.

The rain started about 10 o'clock, and the whole sum totalled ander pur Supreme Court, Mr. Raymond lying, between Tien-Kuan Li Street gradually falling away, Madge, of the legal firm of Free- and fuct Shou Road, that parts of falling heavily at first and then £400. Not one of the girls, whose but WO cannot вее that

The ages varied from eighteen years to man and Madge, made an applica- their buildings will be demolish-subsiding to some extent. these fears are likely to betion for the admission to the F.M.ed to make room for the construc-fall persisted throughout the night, twenty-four years, 'arrived at the realisad for some years yet. In S. bar of Mr. Khoo Ee, son of Mr. tion of, a new maloo. In accord- however, the total rainfall being right answer. any event, it must be recalled that Khoo Keng Hool, the well-known ance with regulations, these shop 2.41 inches. There was vivid and Chinese resident of Kuala Lumpur, owners will be required to pay continuous lightning, but the our tax on tobacco and the increas is Lordship, in admitting Mr. fees to help meet the cost of con- centre of the storm gradually Commdr. Eyres-Monsell; Chlof ed stamp duties were origin-Teck Ee, wished him success in his struction of the new road. These shifted some distance from Hong-Government Whip, has returned ally devised to broaden the Career as an advocate and sollcl fees are to be paid within a month kong. The rainfall was not suf- from America and has resumed his

of date of the announcement. ficient to cause much damage. official duties.

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