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An alleged attempt to obtain a bribe from the tccupants of a tal- Iors' shop in Haiphong Road and The health of infants and little the larceny of 10 cents were re- children is subject to rapid Inted to Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith changes, and prudent parents at the Kowloon Magistracy yes- should not delay corrective treat tarday afternoon by Mr. L. H. C. ment at the first sign of feverish-Calthrop (A.S.P., Kowloon), who ness or other indications that prosecuted an Indian constable three their child is unwell. Baby's before bla Worship on Own Tablets, promptly adminis-charges arising out of the incid tered, will ofton avert serioua Illness. Here is what an Ameri-time of his arrest, was attached Tha defendant, who, until the can mother says about them:→→

to the Water Police Station, was My little boy, ten months old, charged with (1) entering No. 31. was threatened with fever and Haiphong Road without a wars was very nervous and restless," rant; (2) attempting to obtain a writes Mra. Henry Turcott, of bribe of 40 cents from the in- Barro, New Jersey, USA. "Imates and (3) larceny of 70 cents gave him Baby's Own Tablets at from one of the occupants of the night and in the morning he was floor. much better. I always use Baby's Own Tablets when my children need a simple medicine and they take them without trouble,"

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Mr. H. J. Armstrong appeared for the dofence and entered a plen of not guilty on each of the three chargee.

Outlining the caso, Mr. Galthrop said that at about 10 p.m. on Feb. ruary 11, three men were playing ti kau at No. 31, Haiphong Road, been in progress for about three a tailors shop. The game had quarters of an hour when the de fendant, an Indian constable, No. 771, went into the shop and sald "Sik tak, eik tak!! (Under- Understand?) and held #Land 7 up four fingers, which indicated that he wanted the occupants to give him 40 cents.

Money Seized.

The inmates realised he wanted a bribe, but said nothing. The defendant then wont away and soon afterwards one of the play era retired, the game recommenc- lag again when two other mem- bora of the shop made their ap- pearance, Ten minutes later the constable returned and said that he wanted 40 cents, which was re- fused because the players knew that in leau was not an offence. Their refusal incensed the con- atable, and aceing some money on the table be seized it and went Ife took 70 centa belonging ont. to one of the players,

The victim followed the con- stable out of the shop and peeus- ed him of taking the money. The constable grabbed him by the collar and took him to the Police Station, where he was accused of gambling.

Regarding the first charge, his Worship asked Mr. Calthrop if he was prepared to prove that there were departmental instructions that Police officers were not al- lowed to enter premises without a warrant,

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The prosecution called one of the occupants, who stated that the defondant did not give any rea- son for taking the money. In the first game there was no money on the tables. Witness was under the impression that tin hau was a punishable offence.

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ON THE TELEPHONE.

Mrs. Bnooks. Is that you, Mabel? Mrs. Brooks--Yes, Molly. Mrs. SnookWill you play golf with me at Deepwater Bay on Satur day 1: Mrs. Brooks-What, the 23rd Febr. no Indeed, I'm sorry, but I'm going to that Show at the Recrale Club; wouldn't miss it for worlds.

hoard of it.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929.

IN GERMANY NOW.

DISARMAMENT AND THE

"BUNDE."

[By Ludwig Asch,J The Moscow Soviet journal, Ogonick, recently characterited Germany's disarmament as pro blematical. One reason given was Mrs Shooks. What is it? I haven't that the German defence associa- Mrs. Brocks.-Oh, my dear, it was tions formed a reserve vastly ax

staring you in the face in the cooding in numbers the 100,000 papors a few days ago and there men of the Reichswohr and main- are parters in the town. Why, it is an International Dance talning close touch with the Minis- Festival-quite unique, I think, try of Defence; another reason as- as far as Hongkong goes. Mrs. Snooks. It sounds most thelll. algued was that, within 4 months, ing. Tell me more about it..these reserves, could easily be Mrs. Brooks--Well, as I said, it is at equipped with all the requisite the Recreio Olub in Kowloon, one weapons by the German factories, of the most attractive Clubs in the Colony, I think. The Prusi. these being readily convertible dent and Committee have kindly into arsenals. Of the defence as- lent it. There are to be dances sociations, continued the Ogonick, of various nations. For instance, Madame Tamagaini, wife of tha the Stahlhelm had more than two Governor of Macas, is arranging million members, and the Jung- the "Vira" Dance and is bring deutsche Orden about one million, ing ovar 86 of her friends to take part in it. This will be a while Ludendorff's Frontbann com- most attractive performance. prised considerably more than 800,000 men and 10,000 officers; in addition, there were, it said, the Werwolf, Enhardt's men and ab.on.

Mre. Snooks, I should like to see

that. Madamo Tamagnini i80 artistic, I hear, and she is aura

Mrs. Brooks. Then Mr. Kitayama to produce something out of the ordinary.

has arranged a Japanese Dance called, poetically, "The Harbinger of Spring." I believe it is

charming.

Mrs. Snooks, I have seen the Lion Dance and other Japanese dances nuch attracted by

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and them Mrs. Brooks. Then there are to be an Old English Dance, an Irish Jig, a Cavotte and Russlan Danco.

Mrs. Snooks.Each fascinating in its

own way.

First, as to the figures. A caro- ful computation shows that the Stahlhelm totala between 200,000 deutsche Orden roughly the same! and 300,000 members, the Jung- number, the Werwolf some 10,000, and the Frontbano, Erhardt's men and other small associations only a few thousand each.

While none of these associations are in any way connected with the Ministry of Defence, some of Mrs. Brooks-And in addition a most thom, for instance the Frontbann, original and delightful item adopt an emphatically inimical at- a contre dance, arranged by Mrs. titude towards those responsible J.M. da Rocha, wife of the Pro- for the German Defence Forces. aident of the Recrelo Club. In There can be no question of any this only children ranging fromilitary training in connexion with four years upwards take part and the music is supplied by the these associations; their younger Portuguese Juvenile orchestra members have received none what. all eight years old and under-ever; the elder, men have seen no conducted by Master H. Graca drill for more than ten years. Ozorio. It's a wonderful little orchestra and keeps euch splendid time.

No Weapons.

Mrs. Suooks.--What a feast of good

Weapons they have none; nor things the 23rd will provide. Mra. Brooks-Yes, and the finale is of war. The Reichswehr Itself a would they have any in the event n tableau in which representatives accorded by the Allies only a small of many nations will take part. quantity of arms and ammunition; And Lt. Col. Ponsonby, and the it has no war material whatever Officers of the Queen's Royal Regiment have allowed their which counts, up heavy guna, no Band to play under Bandmaster tanks, no military planes etc., ob. Perry; you know what a treat |viously it could spare nothing for that is. What more can you the alleged reserves. want?

ra. Suooks-Nothing, my dear, ex-

The conversion of Germany's cept tickets for the Show. Ifactories into arsenals supplying must go, and take the family. war material would take much Mrs. Brooks-Well, I get the longer than the four montha 38- tickets at Mautric's for you this sumed by the Ogonick. Even the morning. They are $3 and $2. United States, with its big fac The show begins at four o'clock torica, skilled workera, raw mater -Saturday 23rd-Don't forget,

fala and unstinted funds, had only We'll all go together. Mra. Snooks,Rather-we'll give few cannon of its own construc-

golf a mies- wouldn't miss a tion on the Western Front when show like that for anything.

FRANCE AND CHINA.

A SETTLEMENT OF THE

NANKING AFFAI

Shanghai, Feb. 18.

the armistico was concluded, that; is to say, a year and a half after. It joined the War. But whether four months or eighteen, it makes no difference.. Within a few weeks after the outbreak of a possible war, the converbed factories, as at German well as any efforts mobilization, would have been de- stroyed by acroplanes, tanks and. heavy guns of the enemy, and

ly having a bit of amusement.clared that the general principles tivo military forces out of the the first pack of cards in rotation. French commercial treaty They did not use any dice but took for the conclusion of a new Sino-"bunde" would vanish. The door was shut, but not locked. It being the day after the Chinese New Year, the premises were not open to business.

Dr. C. T. Wang, interviewed, de- therewith all idea of making effec-

'Disunion.

con- agreed upon, and he expected cerning Indo-China had been shortly to hold a final meeting with

Nor must we forgot what is pro- Witness denied that they were

the French Minister, after which bably the most fundamental and the treaty would be signed.

decisive point in the whole mat- playing on the pavement outside the shop. The constable, he said, for a settlement of French claims say enmity, existing among the He added that arrangements ter, namely, the disunion, not to did not knock when he entered arising from the Nanking incident "bunde." Moreover, the fact that the shop. He merely pushed the had also been completed. The some of the associations referred door open. Witness made no at- amount of compensation China to by the Ogonick are open enemies tempt to hide the cards, although had agreed to pay was about of the existing State would render he thought he was guilty of an $100,000, of which $30,000 re- them, in the problematic event of a offence and expected to be arrest- presented compensation for onu war, not an element of strength od. When the constable entered Frenchman killed by Communiets. but of weakness in welding to nothing was said to him by any-This sum, however, the French gether the forces of the country, Government had agreed to contri- The Jungdeutsche Orden alone Mr. Armstrong put it to witnessbute towards philanthropic work endeavours to link up the sup that they were shaking dies on in China.-Reuter.

porters of the regime shattered in the pavement outside the shop

1918 with the system existing in but this was denied.

present-day Germany.

body.

In answer to his Worship wit- nesa anid that he understood the constable's four fingers to mean 40 cents because it was not usual for policemen to ask for such large sums as $4 and it was equal- ly unusual for them to request four cents.

After further evidence the case was adjourned.

FANLING GOLF.

RESULT OF THE WEEK-END BOGEY POOL COMPETITION,

A. H. Ferguson (8) and N. K. Littlejohn (13), with cards of 2 up, tled in the bagay pool competition at Fanling over the week-end and divid- ed the prizo.

Other scores wore: 14 Comdr. W. D. Brown (7), A. B. Purves (9), H. G. Howard (14), 1 up; Lt. Comdr. W. D. Brown, T. Rameny (14), all

square.

There were thirty entries.

You don't have to break a date with an aviator to miss a fly.

For its efforts to effect, among the German 'people, that unity ca- sential to any recovery of power, to only thanks earned are that if in at one time forced to litigation by the radical associations of the right and, at another, sees its members manhandled by the radicals

of the left, nay, mainmed and killed.

even

Whoever, in the face of these facts, takes the figures grotesquely exaggerated above and adds them together as the total of associations forming a reherve in time of war acts like a child who, pretending to bo teacher, says to its playmates: 12 babies, 10 trees, 15 ducks and 20 umbrellas-how many

bables does that make?"

Shanghal, Feb. 18,

The Kuo Min news agency denies the report that Lu Chung-lin went to Honan, and states that he merely went on a hunting trip during the week-end and has now' resumed duties at Nanking.--Reuter.

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