1930-06-18 — Page 5

Without

ELECTRIC RECORDING

Columbia

RECORDS

Now

Scratch

BILLY BENNETT COMEDIAN

0469

9237

THE IDOL'S TONGUE

1 BUCKSHEE

SHE'S MINE

NAPOLEON

9205 NO POWER ON EARTH

9296

5649

1 CHARGE OF THE TIGHT BRIGADE

ƒ THE TIGHTEST MAN I KNOW

OGUL MOGUL.

DADAY

THE M. F..

The Anderson Music Co., Ltd.

Ice House Birset.

Tal, 21322.

NOTE THESE PRICES!

FOR OUR NEW STOCKS

ALL COLOURS Spun crepe...

มา

15

"

...$1.50 yd. GEORGETTE DO. (d'ble width,$1.50 CREPE DE CHINE (do. do.) . $2.25 FUJI SILK (heavy).......

...$0 80 PRINTED CREPE DE CHINE from... $2.00 GEORGETTE CREPE

...$2.50 CREPE DE CHINE HAND EMBROIDERED

"

17

29

"

.. $ 7.00

...$ 3.00

1

...$ 6.00

...$ 2.25

"

15

UNDIES, 3 PCS. from... ...$15.00 Set.

PYJAMAS

**

́MEN'S SILK SHIRTS

SILK PYJAMAS

NECKTIE & HNDKF SETS

Also-Kimonos, Houri Coats, Shawls, Bridge Coats, Etc.

TAJMAHAL SILK STORE 3. Wyndham Street. (Opposite China' Mai!), Telephone 26136.

ALL ABOARD for HOLIDAYLAND-

P. & O., Blue Funnel, N. D. L & H. A. L. boats leave almost daily for delightful TSINGTAO.

Write Tsingtao P. O. Box 225

for booklet and for list of recommended Hotels and Boarding Houses, or for any other information.

Certain relief for sufferers of INDIGESTION

I Cablets of

Magnesium Perhydre

"MERCK"

Believes the distressing symptoms of nausea, heartburn fatulence, and all other

tomach troubles, Your Doctor recommends it.

From all chemists and stores in powder and tablets.

FLETCHER'S

SKETOCIDE

KILLS FLIES, MOSQUITOES,

BUGS AND OTHER INSESTS

THE PHARMACY

(FLETCHER & CO., LTD.

A.P.C. Buliding,

Tal.'20345.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, “1930.

TIENTSIN CUSTOMS

SEIZURE.

AN UNWISE PRECEDENT ESTABLISHED.

TO-NIGHT'S BAND CONCERT.

SECOND OF SERIES TO BE GIVEN AT K.F.C..

MORE PRISONERS LAST YEAR

REPORT OF THE SUPT.

• OF PRISONS.

Tientsin, June 16. The arrangement of entertain-

The Superintendent of Prisons, (Delayed by Censor).ments in the open air at this sea in his report for the year 1929, This morning, the representa-son of the year is apt to be a bit states: tives of Marshal Yen Hai-shan of a lottery. The uncertainty of seized the local Customs House the weather keeps everyone in aus-ceived into prison during the year The number of prisoners re- and took over complete control. pense till the last minute. The and the corresponding number for

Mr. Lenox Simpson presented postponement of the Public Band 1828 were as follows:- his credentials to Lt. Col. Hayley- Concert in Kowloon last Wednes Bell, appointing the former Com- missioner of Customs.

The offices have been isolated, the telephone communications cut," and callers turned away The Castoms business has been suspended and the situation ja in a state of deadlock,

1928. 1929. 4,895 4,779

Total

7 80 66

778 933

5,756 5,779

day was inevitable on account of Convicted by Ordinary the sodden condition of the ground Courta and the grand stands. The under-Convicted by High Court. standing is that, if the rain inter- Wei-hai-wei feres one Wednesday, the Concert Debtora :.. is put off to the following Wednes On remand or in default day. Noodless to say, the reserva- of finding surety tions of seats will be carried over to the next week, unless the holders wish to cancel the reservation, in which case the money will be re-

There was an increase in the

larceny during the year, under ro- number being 1,410

Official notices issued by order of the Garrison Commander have been posted on the premises and in the vicinity, informing the turned by Anderson Music Com-number of prisoners convicted for public that the administration has been taken over by order of pany. Yen Hsi-shan, and giving the The Concert to be held this even-low the assurance, inter alia, that Ing. If weather permits, is given by against 1,061 for the previous year. adequate revenues will be de- the Military Rand of the 1st Bn. The number of Revenue Grade cover the obligations of foreign (Prince Albert's) by kind permis-,717,

to The Somerset Light Infantry Prisoners, admitted to prisons was loans secured on Customs

posited in the usual banks

venues.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

Across

7 Consolidates.

8 Virgin metals:

1 Male goose. 6. Native of Scotland. 9 Satisfy.

resion of Lt. Col. C. H. Little, D.S.O., The above figures show that 77 and Officers. There will be one per cent of the total admissions or two items which will specially to prison were Revenue Grade pri- appeal to lovers of classical music. soners. A feature of the programme is the 78 boys were admitted as 'Ju- number of solo instruments which Teniles . under 16 years of age, will be heard. These include the during the year, with sentences euphonium, zylophone, piccolo and varying from 48 hours detention to 9 months hard labour, but only saxophone.

83 were treated as Juvenile Offen- 40 so

The Peking and Tientsin Times describes the events 48 the gravest in the history of the Chinese Customs, and fears that should Lt. Col. Hayley-Bell's efforts fail, the Customs ad- ministration will gradually dis- integrate as the seizure will create a precedent which will be only too eagerly followed by militarists elsewhere in China.

The newspaper states that the most distasteful fact of all, that a Briton is involved in this at- tempt to destroy the Integrity of the Customs, is a matter of serious concern-Reuter,

"Shot As Deserters."

Tientsin, June 17. Upon the arrival of Lt. Col. Hayley-Bell at the Customs offices on Monday morning the Chinese Superintendent of Customs for- mally notified him that the ad- ministration had been taken over by the Shansi party, and in- troduced Mr. Lenox Simpson as the new Commissioner.

After some discussion, Col. Hayley-Bell declared that his Instructions were to evacuate the entire staff in the event of in- terference, whereupon Mr. Lenox Simpson retorted that any Chinese obeying the evacuation order would be shot as a deserter.

Col. Hayley-Bell prevented a crisis by agreeing to defer the order for twenty-four- hours, pending instructions from Shang- Hal. In the meantime, Shansi soldiers in plain clothes occupied the compound and offices,--Reu-

ECT.

10 One who owes. 13 Huge.

2

14 Annoint (Shak), 15 Item

16 Land owNETE

. If the Concert should have to beders; the others in the opinions18 French measure. postponed a second time, a notice of the Superintendent and Medical 20 Dissolve

Programme. 1-Band and Bugle March, "Sambre et Meuse," Rausky 2-Overture, "William Tell,"

to that effect will be put in the Officer being over 16 years of age. 121 South American bird: advertisement column of the after-In 5 cases corporal punishment 22 Cavity in a rock. noon papers.

was awarded by courts in addition 23 Thinner. to sentences of imprisonment. 25 Stalk.

27 Slants. The percentage of convicted pri-30 Belled. aoners admitted to prison with 33 Anything that produces reaction.

convictions Previous

recorded 34 Pendent ornament. against them, was 23.8 as com- 35 Most good. pared with 19. for 1928.

126 prisoners were convicted by Police Courts in the New Terri- tories, against 145 for the previous

Rossini

3-Reminiscences of Wagner 4-Song (Euphonium. Solo)

"Loves Garden of Rosea

Hayden Wood Xylophone Solo, "The Imp," Kenneth J. Alford 5--Potpourri, "Tangled Tunes,"

Ketelby 6-Piccolo Solo, "The Deep Blue

Sea," Brewer

year.

Convicts.

The following table shows the number of convicts in custody on the 31st December for the past 10 years, and the percentage of the total number of prisoners in cus- Saxophone Solo, "La Cintody to the estimated population

quantaine," Gabriel-Marie 7-(a) "Minuet in B Bat"

Boccherini

(b) Serenade "Les Millions D'Arlequins," Drigo 8-Excerpts from Musical Show, "Bitter Sweet," Noel Coward REGIMENTAL MARCH— "Prince Albert"

GOD SAVE THE KING.

of Hongkong:-

Year

convicts.

Number of

Percentage

population.

Daily

average

prisoners..

Percentage

population.

1920

275 .043

755

.117

1927 392

1921 231 ,035 1922 259 .039 787 .119 1923 294 .043

861 .126 1924 345 .043 1,066 .133.

045 1,116 ,128 .052 1,054 .134 ,136 .044 1,180 .033 1,071 100 1929 331- .031 1,075 .100

764

.116

day's step was the only possible one left to the Northern faction, 1925 394 Complete Surprise, ・・ as it was ridiculous to continue 1926 409

to permit

revenues from this Tientsin, later. Colonel Hayley-Bell, interview- Customs administration to come

area to swell Nanking's war chest. 1928 852 ed by Reuter, stated that the to a reasonable compromise, but situation at present was at a all these advances had been standstill, pending instructione rigidly rejected.-Reuter. from the Inspector General of Customs.

The Commissioner said that the militarists' drastic action yesterday morning came as complete surprise, as he had hoped the negotiations going on

#

Mr. T. V. Soong's View,

Shanghai, June 17. Mr. T. V. Soong in a statement Bays:

"The forcible seizure of the

the militarista constitutes 1

36 At rest. 87 Pupil.

38

Harress.

42 High mountain.

40 Sums up.

43-Fold.

45 Smaller escutcheon on an escut-

cheon.

47 Peel.

48 Pertain to the iris. 49 Takes into one's own family. 60 Extremes. 51 Singles.

52 We have five..

1 Profit

2 Poses.

3 Tidy.

Down

4 Roman magistrate, 5. Revoked.

Heavenly body.

9 One of a Russian sect.

11 Dandy.

12 Perceived.

17 Single article.

19. Bird of prey,

20 Nets,

21 Ram (naut.)

24 Ralaes the spirits.

26 Compound of tellurium.

28 Foreign.

20 Makes ateeper,

31 Artist's stand.

32 Ex-emperor.

33

Lays up.

35 Second letter of Greek alphabot.

38 Sport.

39 Semi-circular projection.

41 Brief

43 Measure of herrings.

44 An epopee.

45 Poems.

46 Youths..

Yesterday's Solution.

2 DUTY STATUES GOLASH SCARE

U

N NEED ALTER P ACTOR OGLES EAR PURR MOLLE ROOF GRA CARED MADAM × PLAT E LASSOF

ALEC MOTE N CASTOR W WAST OFTEN CERES WRI LEER SHEAR GIOT ORT 39ANT HATCH IN PILES 90AP K ANTONGS WRITER LINSBGO ALAO 7

FISHING JUNK PIRATED.

OWNER AND TWO FOKIS DIVE OVERBOARD.

days to instruct the women in sewing, raffiawork, &c. and to give them elementary education and singing lessons. The prisoners are attentive and appreciative. The results, except perhaps from the singing class,

The death of a member of thể were highly Victoria Gaol.

gratifying. I would again like to crew was the outcome of a piracy in British Waters which was com- 15,611,413 forms were printed record my appreciation of the work mitted somewhere between Nim and issued to various Government done by these ladies often under Wan, and Chek Wan on Monday Departments and 101,884 books trying conditions of climate and morning on board a fishing junk bound or repaired, as compared accommodation..

which sailed from Sam Wan, Deep' with 14,508,195 forms and 99,947 books in 1928, During the year

Bay, a short time previously, Lai Chi Kok Prison,

In his report to the Police, the type to the value of $4,124 "was

Progress continues with the land owner of the junk, a boat of. 236 cast.

resumed in 1926 which is now piculs capacity, stated that he left for some time past would result. Tientsin Customs by the agents of included, matmaking, tailoring garden work gives useful employ on Sunday and was proceeding in a.

Other work done in the Prison mostly under cultivation.

Sam Wan in Deep Bay at midnight. in an amicable agreement and

This

prevent Custors' integrity. The Customs endangering all future plans for ing. laundering, shoemaking, soap done at Lai Chi Kok apart from the observed a small sampan a short interference with the serious blow to national credit, carpentering, tinsmithing, paintment to prisoners. Other work westerly direction. After he bad constituted the only solid thread financial rehabilitation, as well as making, netmaking and basket the necessary, upkeep duties of distance away. The sampan was been sailing for about ten minutes in China's financial fabric, and the existing foreign and domestic making, in addition to the neces-cooking, cleaning, etc., are string approaching them, and on nearing should the local precedent pass obligations on the secured Cus-ary upkeep work of cooking, and net making, basket and broom the junk several shots were fired. unchallenged, the country's only toms. Col. Hayley-Beil has main-cleaning and minor building re-making and grass matmaking. Hope of economic recovery, seems tained the best traditions of the pairs.

Two found their mark on the to be completely doomed.

Prisoner No: 11989 escaped from jank; causing the owner and two service in refusing to allow the The Gaol was again overcrowd-the Garden Party on 21.12.1929. fokis to dive, overboard. The Commissioner emphasised disruption of the integrity of the ed. Until a new prison is built He was recaptured by the Police that his views on the situation Customs. Steps, however,

this state of affairs is likely to con- on 30.12.29.-

The master and one of the folis, were given non-politically and being taken which will ensure the tinue. The estimated population

however, were rescued by the purely from a Customs stand- collapse of this phase of the of the Colony for 1929 was nearly for breach of prison discipline as appeared and was not seen again. 493 punishments were awarded robbers, but the third man dis- point.

militarists' adventure very short-double that of 1919.

compared with 524 for the preced-The people on the sampan went Victoria Gaol, Female Prison.ing year. Corporal punishment alongside the fishing junk and after **The desperate act of the This prison was also overcrowd. was inflicted in twelve cases for some of them bau boarded, the Northern faction in trying to de-ed and proposals were made to prison offences.

owner was relieved of a sum of“ stroy the only possible instrument remove the female prisoners else- Two hundred and twenty-two $233 while the intruders also of national credit is a sufficient where. These proposals are under (222) prisoners were whipped by stole some clothing, the total loss refutation of their own claim that consideration.

order of courts,

being $268. they would very shortly be able

After the men had secured all There were 18 deaths (14 na-the valuables on board the fishing; to overthrow the National Govern ment and establish a Government of their own."---Reuter.

The question now hinges only. Shanghai's reply, regarding the proposed evacuation of the staff, who in the meantime are carry- ing on as usual under the new Commissioner, Mr. Lenox Simp-

воп

The New Commissioner. Mr. Lenox Simpson, interview ed by Reuter, stated that yester

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

AY HAND'S SMALLER THAN ANY OF YOURS, SO I'LL

GET THAT QUARTER..

· MYSELF !!

NOW YOU'RE TALKIN' !!

HINGS HAPPEN FAST

IT'S ALL OVER

IN THIS

DAY

AND AGE

are

1

During the year the working party of English and Chinese re-tural causes and 4 executions), sident ladies continued to visit The conduct of the Staff, with the Prison on Tuesdays and Frl-few exceptions, was very good.

This Is the End!

WHATCHA:: TALKIN' ABOUT? WHAT'S ALL OVER?

OSCARS HANDSHAKE WITH THE PRESIDENT- HE REACHED IN A DRAIN FOR A QUARTER HE LOST AN"----WELL-YOU'D HAFTA SEE TO UNDER- -STAND......... 'SAL

OVER!!

and they returned to Hongkong yes...... people were ordered to sail away,.

terday morning.

WELL-CHEER UP, OSCAR-YOU-BOT THE QUARTER ANYWAY !!

By Blosser

YEAH - BUT NOW!" MY GENUINE HANDSHAKE WITH THE PRESIDENT 15:6-6-60NE V.

SAP

Page 5Page 6