1928-05-17 — Page 7

POLICE TEMPTED BY FRUIT.

NOVEL WAY OF FISHING FOR MANGOES.

covery of his act

TWO BANISHEES RETURN!

BOTH GET PRISON

SENTENCES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this morning, a Chinese was charged with unlawfully entering the Colony after having been banished

for five years from February 28,

1928.

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MUSICAL JOTTINGS.

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[BY "ALLEGRO."]

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928.

CHINESE ORATOR

FINED.

DREW CROWD OF THREE HUNDRED.

BANDIT MENACE CONTINUES.

SOUTH KWANGTUNG CONDI- TIONS STILL BAD,

ROBBER OUTRAGES.

A Chinese, whose eloquence INDIAN SENTENCED,

must have almost equalled that of Marcus Antonlus, appeared before Tempted by a fine display of

body who in very irritated by charged with causing an obstruc A friend of mine know some. Major C. Willson, this morning mangoes to steal four of these from a fruitorer's atail in Holly-

these Musical Jettings. Apparent-tion in Hollywood Road by attract-

A trip through the southern Wood Road, P. C. Shadan Khan, an and Sergeant Cargylic, reading Musical Jottings ought to be men to listen to his oration,

The defendant pleaded guilty lý thay are not what he considers ing a crowd of no fewer than 300 parts of Kwangtung and Kwangai Indian constable in the Hongloong from the defendant's police record, that is to say, serious highbrow

gives one a rather disturbing sen The subject of his speech must satian at the present time, says a Police Force, has had his career Informed his Worship that the comments on Stravinsky's Bite, remain a matter for conjecture, as Telegraph correspondent,

From abruptly terminated through disusu served a term of one month's Purcell's Dide and Aeneas and the the Indian constable who made the Holkow there are reports of ban- For a number of days as he weeks in 1928, both for larceny, fact of the matter ia, that, even if through the crowd to hear what city limits, and the officials find Imprisonment in 1926 and six Mechanism of Grand Pianos. The arrest, said he could not get dits and "Reds" working up to the passed by the stall on his beat. On his release in February this were able to write on such sub- the defendant was saying, and that it dimeult to exercise control out- Shadan Khan devised ways and year, he was banished. means of carrying out a plan, and

jects, the number of people who when he eventually did get near side the city walls. at length he evolved a rod, with His Worship passed senteneo of about them could be numbered on

would take the trouble to read enough, he could not understand. The Pakho and Limehow dis- Be that as it may, the fact re-tricts are also reported as being a hook at one end, with which ho six months' hard labour and twenty the fugers of one hand. "Sinjon mains that when the defendant badly over run with bandits. In hoped to get within reaching dis-strokes of the birch.

Wood, who writes in Musical was told to move on by the con- fact, the oficials, in their efforts iance, of the fruit. Then he In-

In another case, a Chinese who Opinion, has had complaints made stable, he was about to comply to obtain soldiers was banished from the Colony onto itm about his flippancy: "Some when the crowd clamoured for frustrating their own

seem to be November 30, 1919, for ten years have said, 'We never know whether more. Defendant, without heed-Groups of recruits, as soon as they purpose. was found in Hongkong by police you are serious, or not. You are ing the constable, once again start are equipped with rifles and belts officers yesterday. The man plead this, that and the other, why don'ted to speak, but was promptly ar- of ammunition, desert to the ban- fed that he had returned here with you write like it? Well, I don't rested and charged with obstruc- dits and leave the officials worse

the intention of raising funds from think many would have read me if tion.

younger brother for the purpose musical journalism is its total fendant reasoned with the Magia-lines it is rather dangerous to

I had, for the most dismal part of In the Court this morning, de-recruits..

off than when they started to get of going abroad.

Excepting on the bus

is why, when. lack of humour." Exactly: ancedote concerning somebody, or The truth was that the policeman

That trate that he would not be so travel. amusing foolish as to ignore a police order. something in the musical world had arrested the wrong man, Sergeant Cargylle told his Wor-comes to light, it seems worth while His logic was unconvincing and ship that the defendant was sent devoting a paragraph to it. I am he was ordered to pay a fine of $2 to prison for three separate sorry my friend's friend likens the by his Worship. oliences in 1919, these being on Jottings to "tripe," but he needn't two counts of stealing and one of read them. unlawful possession.

sorted the rod through the booth and stuck it into four of the big gest mangoen. He stowed away the fruit one by one in his trousers

pockets,

Arrest and Sequel.

It was well past midnight, when this occurred, but, late as it was,

three fakis of the booth, who had been keeping a watch, appeared from cover and chased the Indian, Hard pressed, he was forced to drop the mangoes as he ran.

It was the intention of the fokia to call a second policeman to arrest the first, but the only other policeman they could find proved to be also an Indian., He had a conversation with the first,

and then the fokis found the tables turned on them. Instead of declng Shadan Khan arrested, as they had hoped, they were themselves acfżed; the situation being that they were reeuse stealing their own mangoes,

Fukis Released.

of

His Worship remarked that that was no excuse for contravening the banishment order.

Mr. Lindsell passed sentence of three months' hard labour.

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A LONG TIME FOR

SHORT TRIP.

some

However, here is a paragraph specially for his benefit. The Man-in-the-Street may give it a miss; If he doesn't there is a danger of his giving the Telegraph

PLAGUE. AT TSINAN.

DUE TO UNBURIED BODIES.

O Recent Muders. "The city gales at Limehow are operate so close to the city that closed at dusk, but the thievest

recently the cries of two men who were murdered could be heard from the city wall. No aid could be given, as the strength of the robbers was not known and except: for a general alarm and plenty of noise to frighten the robbera off, nothing was done until the next day,

As soon as morning came, it was discovered that ten soldiers had deserted with their rifles and ammunition and it is thought that they might have been the murder-

The latest experience to befall misa In future. It is a des- Tsinanfu is an outbreak of plague, cription of the Polish national according to Chinese telegrams 10 dance, the Mazurka, written for the hand from Shanghal to-day." benefit of musicians that they may The outbreak Is scrlous, accord- understand the spirit animatinging to these reports, many deaths Chopin's Mazurkas, and is taken occurring amongst the populace. from the pages of Liszt's "Life of It is attributed very largely toors. the Senior Officer in charge, after R.N.. the master of a possible to catch the haughty, yet troops who perished in the recent the presence of many unburied "It is only in Poland that it la bodies of Chinese and Japanese hearing the story, ordered the In-rading junk was charged with tender and alluring, character of fighting. dian to be charged and the fokis to attempting to leave the harbour the mazurka. The cavalier, who during dark hours, without a poris always selected by the lady, mit and pleaded not gully

Maiters

were,

however, put aright at the Police Station. There

be released.

JUNKMASTER'S NAIVE PLEA.

At the Marine Court this mern-Chopin":

before Commdr. J. B. Newill,

rather a distressing sight as the The Pakhof foreign, cemetery is officials have failed to protect it and it has been thoroughly de Accrated. The gravestones have

of them broken. and taken away. The iron picket fence that! protected it from the pigs and cat- tle has been stolen and the place left in general ruin.

HOW MUCH DO YOU been thrown down and some

KNOW?

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

Shadan Khan was charged with atealing four niangoes and the case Police evidence was to the effect he is proud, and strives to show suizes her as a conquest of which was heard before. Mr. R. E. Lind-that at 10.16 p.m. on May 16, the off her loveliness to the admira- sell to-day, with the Df. S. P., M. junk was observed under waytion of his rivals before he P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.1.E., prose having proceeded outside the Har whirls her off in an entrancing and cuting.

hour limits. The accused admft-urdent embrace, through the ten- Evidence was given by one of the fed that he had no permit, but derness of which his defiant ex- fokis to the effect that many man stated that he left West Point pression an a victor yet gleams, The following general know- goes had been stolen from day to between 3 and 4 p.m. of that day while it mingles with the blush-ledge paper has been taken from day from the stall, and at length a night watch was prranged.

fing but gratified vanity of the the Daily Express. considered prize whose beauty constitutes the For three days they had seen proved, and, a fine of $10 with the

Answers, for those who need what, for want of a better name, alternative of 10 days' imprison-cavalier accentuates his steps as of this issue.

glory of 1зін triumph. The them, will be found on Page 14 was described as a foking-rod | munt Inflicted. - placed hi readiness on a window sili

What strange

happenings in near-by. The purpose of this fod

apace convince astronomers that was revealed when they saw the

we are on the eve of the new Indian surreptitiously creep up to

planet? the booth and stick the mangoes 'with it.

Charge Denied.

Shandan Khan deniell the charge, and ejaculated something which Mr. Wodehouse assured his Worship was a question to the witness, and

not a statement.

The C390

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Low Water.

If in the pride of defiance, quits his partner for a moment as though he would contemplate her with junke, five in numbers, were

Masters and mistresses of cargo renewed delight; then rejoins her charged with securing their craft inalde low water mark during dark hours.

All pleaded guilty with The exception of one mistress, who stated that she had a permult. for working cargo,

with passionate zeal, or whirls. himself rapidly round as if over- come with sudden joy and yielding himself to the delicious giddiness of his rapturo.

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"How varied art the movements which suceccd each other in the It was ascertained that the boat course round the ball-room!

Be- of the mistress in question was ginning with a sort of timid hesita- His Worship:-It did not sound 230 am. When boarded by a bird just about to take the wing; seeured alongside s.s. Tung On áttion, the lady aways about like a like one.

Defendant called a witness in the ing cargo.

Pollee officer, she was not work for some time gilding on one footf

alone, the skims the fee of the person of the other Indian constable

The accused produced a permit polished floor like a skater; then who helped him take the fokis valid for one month from the date like a sportive child she runs for- the Station.

of issue, May 11.

ward and suddenly takes wing This witness said he was on duty in Queen's Road Central when he

His Worship, examining the per- lifting her lowered eyelids, and was summoned by a police whistlemit, conceded the period of valid with her head erect and her bosom. to go up through Possession Street, but remarked that the wordingswelling, with elastic bounds ahe At the head of the shape, he came

was ambiguous, "Under the eir-cleaves the air as the light barque upon the defendant, who was then cumstances he discharged the leaves the wives, and seems to holding a small boy, but was him-accused. The remaining defen-port with space like an agile self being held by the collar by ants were all fined $10 with the wood-nymph. Once again she be-19 second Chinese. He understood sual alternative.

gins her timid and graceful glid-] from the defendant that the Chinese

ing, looks round at the spectators, senda, words and signs to those were stealing mangoes, and, on that, assisted the defendant to take the

most highly favoured, and then, ex-12 men to the Police Station.

(Continued on Page 11.). Starting Young.

His Worship convicted defendant, and, in calling for the man's record, was informed by Mr. Wodehouse that he had joined the Force only last January.

His Worship: Starting young. Defendant was sentenced to four weeks on the larceny charge.

TROOPS MARCHING ON WANHSIEN.

STEAMERS FORCED TO UNLOAD CARGOES.

re-

Naval wireless messages ceived in Hongkong atate a report has been received to the effect that fa considerable number of soldiers, who are marching on Wanhgien, have, arrived at a place about 50.

CASES FOR TRIAL AT miles above the town.

SESSIONS.

THREE MEN TO BE DEALT WITH.

There are three cases down for trial at this month's Criminal Sessions which commento next Monday, two of which are to bo taken by the Chief Justice, Sir Henry, Golian and two by the acting Pulsne Judge, Mr. P. Jacks. Before the Chief Justice, Kong Lau-yuen and LI Hong will be tried on charges of "ussault by a person armed with intent to rob"

Steamera operated by the Yarig-| tsze Rapids Company, have been held up at Wanhalen, where they have been forced to discharge their cargoe3.

Nothing unusual is reported. from the middle and lower river ports.-Naval Wireless,

ROBBED WHILST

ASLEEP.

INCIDENT AT SIKH TEMPLE.

Mit Singh, an Indian living at

and possession of moulds for coin-the. Sikh Temple, reported to the

ing purposes respectively.

polico yesterday that on Tuesday

Before Mr. P. Jacks, Chan Shing night, whilst he was asleep in the will be indited for burglary and Temple, someone sole from him the larceny, and returning to the sum of $52: Colony during a deportation perlod.

Lady Stonehaven, wife of the Governor-General of Australia, will leave Australia on a visit to Eng- land shortly.

On waking up, Mit Singh made enquiries among the tenants of the Temple and found that a man. named Arjan Singh was missing. He therefore made a report to the police, giving the name of Arlan Singh as the man he suspected of | having stolen the money,

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How many millionaires are there in Great Britain according to the latest returns?

What English coins were called in and replaced by reason of defco- tivo dedigne?

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Young Women Killed.

At Lungehow, the thieves are the leading subject of con- yersation, and even the city itself is not beyond the danger of bandit attacks. The approaches to the city are guarded so as to prevent |

surprise attack, and coolies are compglied to liavé military escorts in order to get supplies in and out of the city. On May 7, three young women who were working in a fiel about a mile from the city were: surprised by a company of bandita about 5 p.m. and were ordered]

of what two European races to march off to the hills. They re-

the origin still a mystery to ethnlogists!

Where there in England a coal

fused and tried were murdered.

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hat diary containing references of Hoi Taun, near the Ping Yi Cua sifné which is worked by five mon? It is, reported that the village. to Shakesparo has recently been toms House on the Tonking bor- sold for £10,5001

What are the limit dates between der, was recently attacked by which Easter may falli

about a hundred robbers; twenty-

What, was the aggregate mileage nine villagers were killed and the covered by the entrants in the village ancked, All the cattle were British Motor Cycling Club's driven off and some of the in- Easter road trial?

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