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KOWLOON BAND CONCERT.

FINE PROGRAMME ARRANGED FOR TO-MORROW.

HIGHLAND MUSICIANS.

NOMINAL FINE ON CAPTAIN.

(Continued from Page 1.).. caused by any steamer or launch passing by,. fo which Mr. Leach answered in the negative.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1930.

FAIRY STORIES ON SCENERY.

HOW YOUNG CHINESE GIRL WAS ENTICED AWAY.

The Tin Yat and the Tuct On WOMAN SENTENCED.

were lying side by side and their fenders were only about four or five inches apart. Another vessel, the Tai Lee, was on the other alde of the wharf.

INDIAN SITUATION IMPROVES.

· (Continued from Page 1.)

Peshawar would begin sittings in a week's time. He mentione that story clrealated to the effect that British troops in Shola-

LATEST SHANGHAI

AGITATION.

DEPORTATION OF BRITISH ́ BARRISTER DEMANDED,

ut had been removing the ac- RESENTED SPEECHES.

called Gandhi caps from the heads of wearers in public streets was untrue.

Mr. Benn estimated that the incidence of the salt tax per head per annum of the population of India was between fourpence and

Shanghai, May 16.

The deportation of Mr. Ranald G. McDonald, the well-known local British barrister, from China, is being demanded by the Fourth Sectional Branch of the Shanghai District Kuomintang ánd Ministry for Foreign Affairs is being asked to take steps in this connexion.

the

The enticing away Kowloon residents are greatly

from her looking forward to the open-

employment of a little girl, for the purposes of using her as a air concert to be given by the full

mui-tsui in a village in Chinese military band of

Witness said he had warmed up territory, was the subject of *the Argyll and Sutherland

Highlanders (Princess Louise's) result that the propeller of the Mr. Grantham at the Central fourpence halfpenny.

his engines at 9.30 p.m. with the Police Court proceedings before to be given by kind permission of ship was turning slowly and this, Magistracy this morning, when He also stated that the Govern- Lieut. Col. R. G. Maelaine, M.C-in his opinion, caused the wash Cheung Fung, an unemployed ment of India estimated that and officers, on the Kowloon Foot- which prevented him from taking woman, was charged with enticing approximately forty newspapers ball Club ground to-morrow night

An accurate reading. The sea

a little girl, aged nine years, and seventeen weekly and bi- under the conductorship of Mr. C. also contributed to this dificulty. employed at 48, Robinson Road, weekly periodicals had ceased

At a meeting held on Wednes- S. Beat, A.R.C.M. In the event of

from her place of employment, publication since the promulgation day, this branch of the Tang-pu Mr. McDonald's * Question of Draught, ' wet weather, the concert win be]

Mr. J. Murphy, attached to the of the Press Ordinance. There discussed. postponed until Wednesday, 28th

Witness agreed with his WorS.C.A., said the girl was employed were indications that some of speeches at the annual and special instant. The full programme is ship that when examined lately in at 48, Robinson Road, and had these would shortly resume meetings of ratepayers of the DS. follows:

dock, the mean loaded draught of been there for some time. It ap- publication.-Reuter and British Settlement in which he expressed his opposition to an increase in the the Tin Yat was found to be 10 Peared that she was well treated. Wireless.

Shanghai Municipal Council. fect 8 inches, Witness also The defendant was also employed agreed that if, as he said. the there about a month ago, but actual draught of the Tin Yat, was about nine days. previous to the girl's disappearance, the defend- always six inches above her mean loaded draught, the vessel's ant left and went back to her house draught would have been 10 feet 24 inches.

1. March on Themes from-

"Der Ring des Nibelungen,"

Richard Wagner (1813-83). This celebrated march, written by Wagner as a complement to his great masterpiece, is generally played as a fanfare at Bayreuth to attract the audience to their seats at the theatre, after the interval, The march

is constracted on melodies and fanfare contained in the four sections of the Ring" and is most effective for Military Bands. 2. Overture "Phedre," Massenet.

Jules Frederic Massenet was born

at Montard in 1812. He gained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1865 with his Cantata, "Rizzio." One of the foremost composers of the French School. Many Opeas and charming songs are from his pen. 3. Selection "H.M.S. Pinafore,"

Sullivan.

Andrews.

His

in Hongkong.

While she was working at 48 Robinson Road, she told the little Worship: In your evi-girl a lot of fairy stories about dence, you said the ship that the wonderful scenes in China, night had a draught of 10 feet and the girl agreed to go with the 7 inches. How do you account defendant into the country. for this five-inch error -What

about the list of the ship, your Worship?

was

seen

defendant met the child in Robin On the 9th of this month, the

Events at Sholapur,

Bombay, May 19. A communique issued by the Bombay Government reviews the events at Sholapur from May 7 to May 19 and emphasises that since martial law was declared no dis- turbances have occurred and not a single shot has been fired.

The present position is one of complete quiet. At the moment mob are not exactly ascertainable, the casualties suffered by the

liaries did not fire.

that its

throughout indicated movements were directed by per- sons in the background.

These speeches were described by those present as most insulting to the Chinese residents of the International Settlement and, to the Chinese people as a whole and it was the duty of the Kuomin fang, as representatives of the peopic, to see that the matter was rectified.

However, it was decided that, inclination to retract his state- as Mr. McDonald had shown no

deport him from China.

It was also resolved to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take the matter up strongly with Sir Miles Lampson, H. M. Minister.

SAFE STOLEN FROM POST OFFICE.

<4

CAR BANDIT WORK IN ESSEX.

carried out in the early morning at A daring post office raid was Chadwell Heath, Essex.

son Road and asked her if she but private practitioners calments, steps should be taken to His Worship-No, No, No.

were willing to go to the country,culate that there were fifty caanal- Witness finally agreed that the land the girl replied that she lies, including thirteen dead. five-inch error might have been would have to tell her mistress The Police fired altogether 103 due to inaccuracy of reading. first. Defendant informed her rounds of ball shot and ten rounds

Addressing the Court, Mr. Mar- that

that WAS unnecessary, of buckshot during the distur Introducing "We sail the ocean ton pointed out that according to and they agreed to meet bances. The troops and auxi- blue," "Little Buttercup," "Let us

Ladder the prosecution,, the Tin Yat was in

Street at give three cheers," "When I was a

overloaded to the extent of four p.m. the same day. They did The demeanour of the mobi lad," "On tiptóc stealing.” "A

Mr. Low admitted that so, when the defendant was with maiden fair to see," "For a British inches. tar is searing soul," "Sorry her the mean draught of the vessel her mother, who had come down was in the region of 10 feet 7% or from the country, and she then lot who loves too well," "For he himself has said it," "Never mind 8% and when the vessel left for enticed the girl to go back with

The communique adds that it is the why and wherefore."

Canton the ship had a draught of her mother to her village, which not true that policemen were tied 4, Novelty "The Dalls House," 10 feet 5 inches, which meant was Kongmoon. The girl was together and burned alive, or that that the vessel was only two or handed over to the mother, the one had his eyes gouged out or 5. Suite By Combined Pipes & Band- three inches higher up than when defendant not leaving the Colony. that two were thrown into a well.

Arr. C. S. Beat.

by the Board- (a) Retreat March, "Lochanside" she

The girl was taken to a place It is hoped, as a matter of fact, called Kau Kong, where she was that all the missing policemen will (b) Air, "My Faithful Fond One" ing Officer

compelled to do domestic work. (c) Pathan March, Zuick mi

Dhuil."

On May 18th or 14th, the defend-still be found.-Reuter, Mr. Marton pointed out that her daughter had been arrested in ant's mother received news that Bagpipes und Band-piquoat and

Police Again Fire, unique combination-forms a most there was still about an inch to Hongkong, and she then took the

Simla, May 19. attractive feature of this per

People taking part in a meeting formance. Imitations of pipe be accounted for.

Mr. Forster, little girl to a ship, and handed at Kala, near Jhelum, disobeyed a enough in the Chief Officer, had said, in huis her over to a female ship-runner, Police order to disperse. While Scottish selections, but the real evidence, that it was quite im- who brought the child down to the ringleaders were being arrest thing has blood and Celtic temperament at ing of the disc owing to the chop-14th, the defendant being arrested an effect on Highland possible to have an accurate read- Hongkong. They arrived on May once poignant and exalting,

piness of the water, and Mr. Leach Soloist Pipe-Major R. Sinclair, had reiterated that statement. 6.. Finale to "Rhinegold," Wagner. Mr. Marton admitted that the

(Entry of the Gods into Valhalla).

evidence of Mr. Leach might have been slightly exaggerated, but he admirably knew his Worship would agree arranged to give an abridged ver- with him that there was no doubt sion of the story. The motifs ap- it was impossible to take un pear in the following order: (a) accurate reading. The Rhine through the mist; (b) Mr. Leach had also said that in

strains Bre common

The "Rhinegold," is the first of

the four. "Ring," Operas, and this selection has been

"He alone who love foreswears ean

Exaggeration Possible.

on the 10th.

girl went to the country of her The defendant pleaded that the own accord, but the Magistrate decided to convict, and inflicted a fine of $100, or two months im prisonment.

--

A safe which weighed several hundredweights was taken from post-office premises, loaded into a car, and taken away within sight the noise made by the thieves. of a man who was awakened by

The safe contained £15 or £16

in cash, and postal orders to the the Police and the Magistrate then ed the crowd threw brickbats at value of nearly £1,000.

It is believed that the men also. ordered the Police to fire. This took a date stamp-which will village without loss. No villagers postal orders. enabled the police to leave the help them if they try to cash the; were injured in the firing, but the

arrests numbered nineteen.

Nearly a hundred Akalis (Sikh devotees, were arrested at Jhelum while marching. from Amritsar to Peshawar to A 15-year-old boy who, was re-with the Pathans and to wipe off express sympathy The Rhine-daughters sing 17 order to obtain an accurate read- of the glitterin

ing gold; (c)

ing, one rust dirty one's clothes,manded at Willesden on a charge outstanding Pathan-Sikh dif. (one of the Rhine-daughters) sings Mr. Low's clothes were clean and of house-breaking, escaped from ferences-Reuter. master the magic that forges the tat rather showed that Mr. Low custody. The lad had been sent ring:" (d) the castle gradually did not have a proper reading of to St. James's Hospital, Wands- worth Common, as he complained becomes visible; (e) entry of the the dise. Giants; (f) the subterranean cave; If his Worship found that the that he did not feel well, and he (g) Thunder swings his hammer Tin Yat was overloaded that disappeared from there, and creates thunder clouds; (h) the night, which he submitted she was rainbow bridge appears; Wotan not, Mr. Marton said there was goes towards it; in the distance is the question of the fine. If the heard the Rhine-daughters' song defendant was guilty of over- and the Rhinegold motif; (i) the Gods erous the bridge and enter loading, it was not done deliber- Valhalla.

ately and he thought his Worship should impose a nominal fine.

7. Idyll "The Smithy, Droffa,

The smith, with a merry song. greets the peasants as they pass. and invites the loitering children to drow near and hear the music of the

Magistrate Sums Up.

ing his vessel to the extent of one

inch mean,

The defendant had been inforra-

The office affected is that at Burnsideroad, Chadwell Heath.

Four men are believed to have participated in the robbery. ་ ་ They arrived in a grey touring front door. car about 4.40 a.m., and forced the

Within three minutes the safe Council Member Resigns.

was in the car, the plan of the office Madras, May 19.

having apparently been': mastered beforehand, and the car Dewanbahadur Ramchandra Iyer, a member of the Council of State, then drove away towards Londen. has sent a letter to the Viceroy

Entrance was obtained by saw- resigning from the Council as a ing the door. A brass grille over the of Gandhi without a trial, the enable the bandits to take the safe protest against "the imprisonment post office counter was taken off to revival of the Press Act, and the over the counter. illegal and unwarranted use of

"I was awakened about 20

by his predecessor that the violence against Satygrahis and minutes to five this morning," Mr. mean loaded draught of the vessel innocent members of the public." was 11 feet, but he had taken ng-Reuter. steps to verify this. His Worship found that Capt. Thomas was to blame for not attempting to. verify this, but he thought

More Arrests.

Simla, May 19. his Two members of Congresa,

George Hatton, who lives over a shop adjoining the post office stated and locked out of my bedroom win- dow.

misfortune rather than his fault. Hansraj and Hari Singh, the first into a car. They were rolling-it

His Worship: found that there named being a former member of overloading and he would impose at Jallundhur on a charge of the was no evidence of deliberate the Assembly, have been arrested andļa nominal fine.

His Worship, in summing up anvil Led by the jovial smith, the said he found that the evidence villagers join in rollicking chorus, of the prosecution was given in a and as they depart whistling a little straight-forward manner and melody, they hear Occasional there was no hesitation on snatches of the smith's original part of any of the witnesses. Their song, which blends with their re frain as they disappear in the dis-

were very precise evidence tance.

clear-cut.

He himself had been to the Arr. C. S. Beat. ship to see for himself where the The people of every country re-marks were and had come to the! gard, their own national melodies as conclusion that it was not im- far before the folk-songs of other lands and this is natural and com- possible to get a rough estimate mendable, no doubt, Scotland has of the marks. At the time he read

8. Selection--"Scottish_Songs,""

a full share of beautiful song-tunes the marks, it was quite possible. known far and wide..

A well-to get a reading to within half an

writer (not a Scot) recently inch of the real mark. At that. wrote of the emotional effect of time the rise and fall of the water Scottish music, remarking on the was about three inches, but ac hush that steals over a music-hall cording to the evidence of several audience when the opening strains. of "Annie Laurie" are heard

witnesses, the rise and fall of the water that night was about

9. Morcenu Militaire, "The

A young French soldier is on night duty, standing motionless, a panorama of the countryside bathed in a flood of bright moonlight meets his gaze. Memories are awakened:

eight inches. Even then, the reading could not have been very much dut.

"Teeming with Guess-Work,"

as in a moving picture, the past His Worship added that Mr. four years follow each other in Leach's evidence was teeming with quick succession across his mental

guess work and probably ex-

vision. He remembers the stirring aggerated. His Worship there- "Call to Arms," his joining the colours, going into action, being fare could not accept it; neither wounded and going into hospital could he accept Mr. Leach's Eis reverie, carrying him back to figures.

the commencement of the war with When he examined the ship, he..

"Aux Armes,

of the enemy, and the Bound of a rifle-shot brings him sharply to attention and so back from the land of drea 10. Finale "Popular Regimental Slow March

its insistent the bugles found her far from spotless but hel

Marchons, did not get his clothes dirty even Marchons," is interrupted by when he knelt down to take a look. At any .rate, his Worship thought, the question of clothing did not have very much bearing on the case.

As regards the inch or so differ- ence which had not been account- ed for, his Worship explained thay measurements taken when a vessel A thunderstorm suddenly broke

was in dry dock and when she was over the sports ground at Czen in the water were different, and stochowa, in Poland, while a foot-he attributed this difference to the ball match was in progres. Light-"sag" of the ship whilst in the ning struck a group of the players, water.

"In the Garh of Old Gaul."

God Save The King.

killing one young man and Ring- His Worship therefore found ing twelve others senseless and the defendant guilty of overload- burned to the ground.

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"And the crowds we used to get could appreciate a good job."

"I saw the men removing a safe

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"One remained at the wheel. I got out of my bedroom window on to the roof of the post office, but when the men saw me they laugh- ed.

"When I got downstairs the car was being driven away, the num- ber plate being covered. I ordered a motor-van driver to follow the car, which he did as far as Ilford and some distance beyond, but he finally lost sight of it."

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