The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-19
AHLo' HOME AGAIN.
Completes Four Years Course at
Cambridge

A. L. Ahlo returned to Honolulu on
the Ventura yesterday, after an alb
sence of four years, which time he
spent attending school at Cambridge,
England. Ahlo graduated from Puma
hou College in the class of '96, and
departed the same year to complete
his education in England. He was
married while away, and brought with
him his wife and child
Besides a host of interesting expe-
riences while abroad Mr.. Ahlo was the
victim of rather exciting incident
while en- route from New York to San
Francisco.
A San Francisco paper of Septem-
Der eth has the following account of
it:
"A. L. Ahlo, who is at present a
guest at the California Hotel, COM
planned to the Southern Pacific Com
pany yesterday that on his trip here
from New York his thirteen trunks
were broken into and searched, and,
owing to the peculiar circumstances
surrounding the affair, it looked for a
time as if the matter might reach the
dignity of an international question.
Ahlo is highly educated Chinese, a
graduate of Cambridge, and member
Of the Chinese Reform party He has
an English wife.
'Ahlo tells a peculiar story about the
opening and searching of his trunks.
He was not able to get into all of his
trunks until yesterday, when his keys
which had been stolen at some time
and place of which he had no accurate
knowledge, were returned to him
through the general baggage agent of
the Southern Pacific, to whom they
had been mailed in an anonymous let
ter. Upon opening his trunks Ahlo
found so he says, that they had all
been opened and thoroughly searched,
although nothing of value was taken.
The searching must have taken place
somewhere between here and New
York, at which point they were check
ed through to this city. Ahlo inclines
to the belief, SO he says that some
emissary of the Chinese government is
responsible for the theft of his keys
and the opening of his trunks, and
that the mission of the guilty man was
unquestionably to apprehend any pa
pers or documents that might prove of
interest to the Chinese government
The passenger officials of the South
ern Pacific are looking into the matter
although they have small hopes of un-
travelling the mystery. They are mysti-
fed to know how the trunks could
have been opened and searched while
in transit
TALKS IN SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept PA
densely packed audience of nearly 1000
Chinese, or almost one-tenth of the en-
tire Oriental population of San Fran
cisco. filled every nook and Granny OF
the Chinese theater on Jackson street
last night, and applauded wildly dur
ing an hours address made by A. l..
Ahlo, highly educated young Chinese
graduate of Cambridge University, in
England, who appeared attired in the
very latest thing in London fashion
able evening dress. Ahlo spoke as an
enthusiastic member of the Reform
party that seeks to rehabilitate China
by abolishing the corrupt mandarin
system and establishing modern west
ern methods of democratic govern
ment. Ahlo is the young traveller who
arrived at the California Hotel two
weeks ago from Europe and found that
all his fifteen trunks had been I'M
locked and secretly searched while in
transit between Chicago and this city,
presumably b va spy of the Chinese
government in search of reform party
documents or plans