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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTAL

TOTAL

DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER HAS NO EQUAL

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

1

THE "EVER-READY" BATTERIES.

13

CHINESÉ FIRM FINED FOR

INFRINGEMENT...

The Very Idea!

finite action" was taken.

Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones was for Court. It was then further post. Fallin had succeeded in getting à the complainants, while the defen-poned after the lawyers defending re-trial, which proved unsuccess-

much Armor ground in making their demand If they had shown that they. had made some effort to suppress

WHEN A MAN SEEMS TO BE WISE, the gambling associated with the IT 18 MERELY THAT HIS FOLLIES ARE racecoursca under Chinose jurisdic PROPORTIONATE TO 1118 AGE AND FOR-

According to, the Central News tion. So far from that being the TUNE-Rochefoucauld.

Los Angeles correspondent, Wil- case, the Chinese authorities have

In the case of the alleged in-Ham Faltin is to hang-15 years. Mr. J. F. Brenan, C.M.G., acting fringements of trade marks of the after his original conviction." profited to the extent of some seven Consul-General at Canton is now National Carbon Company, the Pak Faltin's crime has long since Inkhs of dollars for the first half in Ilongkong, staying at Govern-Ming Battery Company, of No. 18, faded from the public memory put of the present year in betting taxes ment House.

Nanking Street, were fined $300 the Judgo, while admitting that. by Mr. W. Schofield yesterday and the prisoner has "auffered torture in respect of the International Re-

The British steamer Halvard ar- further ordered to pay $150 costs and death a thousand times," has. creation Club and the Chinese

riving from coast ports reports en-The defondants were accused of Jockey Club, and have just asked countering a typhoon in the vicin- having in their possession batter decreed that it is time some “de.. for an advance of $30,000 on ac-ity of Foochow on September 6.

les to which forged "Ever-Ready"

This action has been delayed. trade marks had been applied; count of the September betting tax.

In connexion with the kerosene having in their possession batter now for fifteen years. Faltin was. We realise, of course, that two junk fire last night, it is learnedies to which a false trade descrip- accused and found guilty of mur blacks do not make a white, and that the s.s. Taishan also sent boats tion had been applied and having der in 1918.

The death penalty was post- that there is fores in the argu- to the rescue and offered medicinal in their possession trade marks

resembling those of the complain-poned poading an appeal, which ment that there was enough betting aids.

wis dismissed by the Supremo ants. in Shanghai before the greyhounds came. There is, however, the promotere standpoint to be con- sidered; it does seem rather hard lines that they should have been given full permission to start operations and then, at this stage of the day, to be told that licences ure held in abeyance because it has not yet been decided whether pari-

The Java-China-Japan Lijn is to CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE mutuel betting is legal. In giving

permission, the Municipal Council celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation on the 17th instant. must have known the consequencesTo mark the event, the Company which would ensue. With regard has issued an extremely well-pro- to the intervention of the Chinese duced memo-block, bound in mo-

rocco leather. authorities, we quite agree that their moral ardour might be more A Chinese painter, whilst profitably employed in their own engaged on work on H.M.S. Fax- territory, but, it point notwith-glove yesterday, in drydock at the Royal Naval Dockyard, fell to the standing, we cannot see that any bottom of the dock. He received good is likely to result from the serious injuries which necessitat- continuance of greyhound racinged his removal to hospital. in the East.

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TUESDAY SEPT. 11. 1928.

GREYHOUND RACING.

The Sports Club.

more

Mr. P. W. Massey, Managing Director of Relas, Massey and Co., Ltd., has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation.

Last night's rainfall totalled 0.06- inch, according to the Observatory. returns. The total since January 1st is now 67.06 Inches, compared with an average of 6961 inchos.

The return of notifiable diseases for the past week shows ten cases of typhoid (four fatal) and three of small-pox (one fatal). All were Chinese. There were also five Chinese deaths from influenza. A further two cases of typhold were notified yesterday.

Instead of running for

About Hong Kong.

Do you know that-

A scheme for connecting Calcutta, Conton and Kowloon by rail was onco seriously con. aldered?

In 1868, Sir Macdonald- Stephenson suggested such a scheme to the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce. Sub- sequently, after completion of certain railway undertakings In India, he visited Hongkong, in 1864, and exhibited a wall map of another scheme which ho had for connecting Cal- cutta, Hongkong and Peking.

The scheme was, however, regarded as premature, and it met with no encouragement on the part of the Chinese Gov- ornment.

dants, it will be remembered, were nor neither legally represented present In Court.

The case was heard ex-parte, Mr. Hugh-Jones calling evidence.

ful..

Another trial was accured and this time Faltin was found insane and sent to an asylum.

Somo twelve months later, capi-- tal punishment was abolished in Arizona, where Faltin's sentence- had been passed, and it seemed ho would never meet the hangman.. In 1918, however, the death penalty was re-introduced, and this led to Faltin's lawyers mak-- ing further efforts on his behalf.

Year after year, the shadow of the gallows remained to torture- the condemned · mau. Again he was brought before the Judge and again his case was considered, but. this time the verdict was final. And now, fifteen years after his original conviction, William Fal tin is to hang.

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There was a certain publie offi- " cini in a small Scottish town who had very largo ears-enormous care, and so full of hair that they looked like birds' nests,

One day this officia was at a picnic. The day' was hot; he was: tired, so he cropt to the shelter of a bush, and fell asleep.

When his friends went to waken him for tea it was found that a to bear out his remarks made at cuckoo had laid two eggs in one of the carller part of the preceedings. his ears. The execution of a search warrant and the discovery of a quantity of The following examples of labels and batteries on which were schoolboy "howlers" are from the applied the infringements, were magazine of the Camphill Second- proved by Sergeant Mottram. After formal evidence that the ary School, Paisley;

"After life's football fever, he labels were not lasued by the com-

"Åden is plainants, his Worship registered sleeps well. three

a British coaling a conviction in the defendants' absence and imposed fines of $100 on each of the three charges.

His Worship further awarded the complainants $150 coats.

station at the bottom of the Red

Sen.

"A monsoon is a river which flows for six months in one difce-. tion and the other six months in another direction.

The general pubile was than a little surprised by the an- nouncement in, the Telegraph last night that a new club, to be called The Sports Club, organized on an ambitious scale, is in the process Passengers arriving by s.a. Pre- of formation. As our report in-sident Jefferson yesterday after dicated, the entire preliminary Newspapers to hand from Shang-work of organisation has been noon from San Franelace vía ports, included Captain R. L, Carew, Mr. completed, and the sponsors of and Mrs. J. C. Frewin, Mr. and Mrs. hat show that the controversy on the scheme are merely awaiting K. L. Ho, Major C. W. B. Tuke. greyhound-racing, and the alleged the furnishing and equipment of Through passengers for Manila evil influences arising therefrom, the selected premises in King's included Major and Mra. W. B. still continues. Some umbrage ap-vitation to would-be members,

Building boforo extending an in- Duly and Captain Paul Poley. pears to have been taken at the Generally speaking, it may be said action of the Chinese Commission-that the racing community, Chinese days orly, as at first announced, er for Foreign Affairs in having and non-Chinese, is almost entire Cell B. De Mille's drama of the written to the Consular Body re-project, though after consideration Boatman," will be screened at the ly responsible for fostering the Russian revolution, "The Volga questing that the police close Luna it was decided to extend the field Queen's Theatre for four days, be- the Stadium without of interest to other sports. As ginning on Thursday. "The Volga further delay, in order to put a far na we can see, according to Boatman" is Mr. De Mille's biggest present plans, i la intended that pleture since he produced "The Ten check on gambling and to maintain the Sports Club will be minus Commandments." pence and good order." This is re- actual sporting activities, but is!

designed as a social rendezvous for garded in some quarters ns a piece he sporting fraternity. The new who died at New York on Febru of unwarranted interference in the club, however, is chiefly interest-ary 5, 1927, left Hongkong estate to the value of $55,900. Letters affairs of the International Settle-ng as an experiment. It is the of administration with the will au ment, as an endeavour to show nearest approach yet made towards nexet have been granted to Mr. of a Chinese of the Sunwul District chioness of Aberdeen, sulled from Sir Ceall Clementi's iden of M.H. Turner, of Messrs. Deacons, in connexion with the alleged kid-Southampton recently as a worker how much better, the Settlement Concord Club, and its development who is the attorney of a son, Mr. nupping of an elderly villager some in the engine room of the Maure- would be managed if it were will be watched with sympathy Frederick Chauncey the sole exceu-two yeara age were started before tania. The youthful peer is just under Chinese control, and to create The management of the how club tor. The bequests aro of a family Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central twenty-one years old. Young Lord

will be vested in committees, nature. odlum against it abroad. The sum drawn from the voting members, total of events, suys one writer, has been to line up in defence of "the dogs" many who would otherwise be opposed to them.

Park and

Mrs. Eathor W. Chauncay, widow,

EXTRADITION CASE.

CHINESE WANTED BY CANTON AUTHORITIES.

Proceedings for the extradition

"Bonnie Prince Charles' had a' gang which he called the '45"***

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Anxious to get practical export- ence in ongineering, which he is studying at Cambridge, Lord Pent- land, whose maternal grandpa- rents are the Marquis and Mar-

on which will alt an equal nomber This morning's Harbour Office of Chinese and non-Chinese. The returns gave 21 arrivals and 17 de- rules drawn up provide that if partures, of which 10 and eight the Chairman during one year respectively were British, leaving The victim of the alleged kid- Aberdeen when the Marquis was should be non-Chinese, a Chinese 62 vessels in harbour of which 22 To the outside observer there cer-will be elected to the Chair were British, American 3, Nor

the following year,

while wegian 8, Japanese 5, Chinese 13, tainly, does appear something in-o

the Vice-Chairmanships

Will Dutch 6, Portuguese 2. French 4. congruous in Chinese officialdont

alternate in the same way.

For Tonnage was heavy, with improved posing as full of righteous indigna- the first time in the Colony's his cargoes, the British total being over tion against gambling on grey-tory, we believe, an opportunity is 24,000 tons.

POLICE COMMISSION AT BERNE.

INTERNATIONAL MEETING

OPENED.

Berne, Sept. 10. Representatives of Amerieu,

.

Magistracy yesterday, Mr. Somer- Pentland, second Baron, succeeded set Fitzroy and Mr. T. Murphy, to the titlo in 1925. lis father, A. S. P., making the application on who was Captain John Sinclair, behalf of the authorities at Can- was secretary and controller of the household of the Marquis of ton. sapping was a returned American Governor-Guneral of Canada. The emigrant. On July 6, 1926, whilst captain, who had already had a on his way to the watch-tower distinguished military and poll- at Man Yuen Fong, he encoun- tical career, married his chief's tered six men by whom he was kid-daughter, Lady Marjorie Gordon.” napped. It is alleged that the fugitive before the Court used a revolver to prevent any resistance that he might offer.

After a march of six or seven miles, the victim was put in a chair and conveyed a further twenty priles and taken to Chaak Ng, a fairly large town, where he wan held in captivity, for several months. A demand of $35,000 w2s. made for his liberty but after 22 months, the ransom was reduced to $4,500. This sum was paid and

to be afforded to all members of hound racing. If there is one roun-

the public, whatever their try more than another in which nationality, to get together on gambling practically dominates the common round in social inter- The realm of spart is life of the people, that country is course.

probably the happiest medium as assuredly China. Touching this an Introduction of Sir Cecil point, a Shanghai newspaper says Clementi's "get together" move- ment, and we do not anticipate that the Hua Lottery alone, in that the new club will suffer from which every litle servant-mald lack of support. It may be felt squanders her money. probably some quarters that the objecta means more loss to the Chinese of the club are deficient in the lack China and Japan, besides nearly the man released.

of provision for active participa-all the European countries, are

It was elicited in cross-examina. population in a month than racing tion in sport in some form or attending the International Police of every sort in Shanghai does in a other, but we have no doubt that Commission which opened heretion of a witness that the latter and the fugitive were clansmen and that year. Then there is the relation some suggestions will be made by this morning under the presidency there had been a dispute over a

the membors if it is felt desirable. [of Herr Schober.-Reuter. between gambling on greyhounds and gambling on ponies. One cor- respondent writes to a Shanghai paper to point out that the season for dog-racing lasts only about five

Paris months, whilst pony racing goes Brussels

Amsterdamn on more or less continuously for

Borlin eight months in the year. He then Copenhagen

Vienna gives some interesting figures, Vi

Helsingfors based on the assumption that Lunu

Lisbon Park and the Stadium are able to Bucharest complete a full five months' scason, Buenos Aires

Shanghaf

EXCHANGE RATES.

H.M.S. HAWKINS LEAVES TO-DAY.

London, Sept. 10.

.124.26 .84.90 12.10%

.20.30

.18.10

34.4214

The turnover, in that event, he'saya Yokohama would be about ten million dollars, New York

Goneva as against a turnover at the two Milan..... racecourses which are under Chin-Stockholm

Orla ens juridiction of approximately

Prague million dollars, twenty-two

In Madrid these circumstances, it is easy to Athens.

Rio see that pony-racing is a much Bombay larger source of gambling than dog-Hongkong

Sliver (spot) racing. Moreover, the Chinese Silver (forward). authorities would have been on

47.11/82

BOUND FOR HOME THIS AFTERNOON.

sum of $200 which had been in- vested in a Money Loan Assocía- tion. The fugitive further alleg ed that the witness had taken pos- session of the former's ancestors' estate and had converted it to his

own use.

The case was adjourned,

Ho

Mr. R. A. Nicholson, who re- HMS. Hawkins, former flagship 102% of the China Squadron, was flying tired from the position of Super- 107% the paying-off ponnant this morn- Intendent of the Cosmopolitan 800%ing and leaves for England at Dock in April of last year after three o'clock this afternoon. Her 23 years with the Hongkong and 1/10% place on the station has been Whampoa Dock Company, is in the 4.860/82 taken by the new County cruiser, Colony for a few days.

25.10 1.M.S. Kent, the Commander-in-arrived last week from Australla 02,75 Chief's flag being transferred and is going away in a day or two Mr. ..18.10 while both vosacis

were in to Shanghai and Hankow. ..18.19 Northern waters recently.

Nicholson will be remembered for .163%

The Hawkins has been on the his great success as a hprilcal.. .20.26% Station for a number of years and turlet, and especially as a grower

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..5.29/8 was recommissioned in Hongkong of English roses. Many functions 1/5.08/64 in February, 1926. Upon arrival in of the St. George's and St. 2/03 England she will go into dock for Andrew's Socleties were made all 20.11/16 retting but to which station she the more plaasurable by reason 20% will be attached later is not known of the choice blooms which he -British Wireless. at present.

supplied.

["Anybody who is travelling so. swiftly along the road of life,” says Lord Birkenhead, "becomes more and more indulgent of the worship of ancestora."]

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When I was young and

foolish'

And obstinately mulish

I little eared what older folk

might say.

They were, I said, backnum-

bera

Who, awaking from their

slumbers,

Quito forgot they were not liv-

ing in a prehistorie day Which in point of fact had

wholly passed away.

And to treat the dead-and-

gonor

With high reverence and

honour

Appeared to me a futile thing

to do... 1

I had rather for be giving All my homage to the living, And I knew myself more worthy (or Imagined that I knew)

Then that senile, self-opiniat

ed crow..

But now I am much older. And, so far from growing

bolder;

Their point of view more

readily I soc.

So we'll raise a praiseful

chorus

To the men who live betoge

-Us,

And in course of time, superior young people, it may be

That you'll find yourselves ré- quired to worship me