THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1925.
PREMYSLAV.
WELCOME BACK TO HONGKONG.
TWO CONCERTS HERE
COMING HERE.
THIS YEAR'S TOURIST INVASION.
AN AUSTRALIAN "PRIVE.
and China.
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Melbourne, November 28.- Is the Washington "Agreement A wireless message has been re- What may be described as a likely to endure? asks & Home colved in Hongkong from the
Tourist Drive" le about to be
This question arises Mal line, which was due to "President Wilson," the Pacific initiated in the Commonwealth, naturally out of the growing arrive in and the interested sections com-evidence of dissatisfaction in the North at noon to-day, that it is Hongkong from the prise South Africa, Java," Malaya United States. One is reminded
believed that a blade of the pro that the League of Nations was it will not be possible for port to peller has been dropped and that A new passenger service is to repudiated at sight in the land of be made until nine o'clock to-night. be established early "this year Its conception, On the top of whereby Java, Singapore, and the reiterated charges of bad of the Pacific Mail Steamship On enquiry at the local offices Malaya, hope to sec, in the case faith against this country, now Company, the of the first named, more tourists come definite proposals to the informed that not even those on China Mail was than at present visit the Dutch Senate to sanction the increase of board know exactly what had East Indies, and the last two, fire elevation and the conversion happened; all that was known Australians come to regard those to oil fuel of all the earlier battle was that a propeller defect of arens as ideal holiday resorts in ships. The allegations of bad some sort was impeding progress the Orient. Some ten years ago faith may be mere political. pro and that the intention. was for the gentlemen from these parts, on paganda, but the proposals to the liner to be towed into Taikoo the discontinuance of the special Senate," if sanctioned, would con Dock on its arrival. If it were Ceylon tourist effort in the stitute a definite breach of the found that there was a blade miss- Commonwealth, visited Australia, Washington Agreement, and it is ing, the Hoer would in all probabi- and got in the ground work at not wholly unlikely that this is the lity be fitted out with a new one Icast of what promised to be an real end in view.
In about twenty-four hours.
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CHINA EVENTS.
A SERIOUS WAVE AGAINST FOREIGNERS.
(Courtesy of Daily Bulletin).
Shanghai, Jan. 7. gives prominence to rm article stat The "North-China Daily News
thus it is impossible to ignore
Four
interesting development The That America has falled to war, of course, stopped every maintain her relative naval posi- thing. Now work has been re-tion is no fault of the Washington sumed, and a private cable mes- Treaty. The true reason for the sage from Singapore indicates ad dissatisfaction which is being important development in the rather demonstratively Local musicians who have been looking forward to the concerts trade between Australia and the must be sought elsewhere than in by Mr. and Mrs. Promyslav, will be interested to know that the Malay Peninsula. It is learned the eyewash of comparisons with talented couple arrived this morning by the s.s. "Empress of Russia" that the Ellerman and Bucknall the British Navy. The fact is after an extraordinary successful tour of Japan and Northern China. Steamship Co., Ltd., which that Japan stole a march apön Falready conducts a purely cargo America when she carried her In every city in Japan and Chinn | Eugenie Fremstav, wonderful line, formerly run by the Austra-point that neither the Philippines they rented a furore, drawing artiste, what can be said beyond linn Commonwealth shipping nor Guam should be developed as
the fact that one hardly realised crowded houses everywhere, am the cello capable of such depth ports, and Singapore, has decided prohibition imposed upon us in of anti-foreign and anti-Christian concern, between Australian battleship bases. With a similar the fact that there is a serious wave being acclaimed by musical of emotional expression."
to establish a regular monthly the case of Hongkong, Japan re-feeling sweeping across Chiun. critics as artists on a pinnacle of
Two concerts have been ar-service of passenger steamers mainis the only Fower possessing Unless this fact is faced frankly, their own. In Japan' they gave no fewer than 20 concerts, ench ranged, for Hongkong-one in the early in the New Year. The modern naval base in the grave results may ensure. more successful than the other: City Hall on Saturday, 10th inst, steamers "City of Falermo," and Pacific. The only way in which yes ago, foreigners in the interior "whilst they also had the distinct and one in the Star Theatre on "Malatian," which have been run- America can alter this is to note the growth of an anti-foreign tion of playing before the Crown Monday, 12th inst., at both of ning in the Ellerman and Buck- violate the Washington Agree feeling, and at intervals sinces from which Mr. and Mrs. Premyslav nall line service between England ment. If she does this in a different places the same feel! Prince of Japan, who graciously will have the assistance of M. and Africa, will inaugurate the minor way, such as by modernising has been reported with growing presented them with two valuable Harry Ore, the well-known local Singapore-Australia service, taking old ships, one of another of euphasis.. lacquer boxes' as a souvenir of
pianist and composer. It should ing the place of the vessels the signatory Powers is most The article instances the student' their visit.
be needless on our part to bespeak already employed, and carrying likely to respond, and then the strikes in Human, which took a bit- Writing of their, performance crowded houses on these occasions only first class passengers. ground would be laid for declar-being ten up and scattered over erly miti-Christian turn, Bibles in Shanghai, the "North China a city that is proud of its musi- Sydney will be the Australian ing the Agreement void. Daily News" said: "We have cal standard needs no urging to terminal "port, but Melbourne, There is no reason, however, to synaptons closely resembling those the school grounds and it states that heard many great violinists, but hear really celebrated artistes. Adelaide,, and Fremantle are in assume that such a result would of the Boxer year are reported from none with great mastery of his Following concerts in Hong-cluded in the itinerary, and be the inevitable signal for an Shantung. instrument, none more cloquent, kong. Peking, etc., Mr. and Mrs. Sourabaya and Batavia in the outburst of competition of armas none more satisfying, none with Premyslav will proceed in April Dutch East Indies. The Singa- ments. The Washington Agree of this feeling to the failure of the greater musicianly feeling than on a tour of Australia and New pore and F.M.S. authorities are ment is so far ineffective us it present rulers, who we attempting Leopold Premyslav ..Of Zealand.
to embark on a publicity cam-stands that it virtually bears full to deflect the popular wrath from paign, but whether a bureau will scope for rivalry in everything themselves to foreigners, and also to be opened in Sydney has not yet except capital ships and big guns. the large growth of Christianity been decided.
All the naval Powers are
to the Bolshevist building cruisers, destroyers and poison."
now gently and It is estimated that about 2,300 submarines to their hearts' con- The "North-China Daily News," American tourists will be visiting at once manifest itself is in the says that many men, who are
tent. Where competition would in an editorial on the same subject, the Far East on round-the-world development of the prohibited given to exaggerate, expresse not tourist ships during the next six months.
strategical points.
I am not sure opinion that an explosion is in- The first to come out, that this would not be a good evitable, shortly. The present pro with about 500 passengers, will Before Mr. E. W. Halion, at be the "Belgenland," of the Star in the Pacific seems to me a better of a widespread movement working
thing. America fully prepared ganda
part the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-Line, a ship of 27,500 tons gross. guarantee of peace than America, for the general repudiation of the ing," Chinese was charged with She is due to reach Japan in the
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ALLIED DEBTS.
BRITISH AND FRENCH CONFERENCE.
SEEKING SOLUTION. (Reuter's Service.)
Paris, January 7.
A communiqué states that Mr.
Later.
garding the talk between Mr. Churchill and M. Clementel on the subject of inter-Allied debts.
OPEN WINDOW..
GIVES EASY ACCESS TO THIEF.
DUINE ADMITTED.
AN AMERICAN INVASION.
SUPERIOR
PEOPLE.
"CRANKS' BLIND TO THE
WORLD'S WISDOM,-~
The writer attributes the consĖS
treaties.
appears
to be
It is stated that the yamen of
the theft of a murhle elok, ruet middle of January under charter quite unable to prevent the Winston Churchill, Chancellor of stand, ktail shaker, and 49 to the American Express Com-seizure of Manila and Guam on The paper ask: "What is the the Exchequer, and M. Clementel gransplice records, the propertypany. After leaving Japan calls the outbreak of hostilities. Diplomatic "Bady doing? Will the unofficially exchanged views on of Mrs, C. M. Ribero, naiding a will be made at Shanghai, Hong-
storm take them as completely by the whole question of the inter- No. 6, Carnarvon Kod:
kong, Manila, Batavia, Singapore,
∙surprise as that of 19007 The ques Allied debts. No experts were Mrs. Ribeiro stated that the loss Diamond Harbour.
tion is insistent, because he loot- Calcutta, present.
was reported to her by her servant Colombo, Bombay, Port Sudan,
ings of trains, robberies" and tready After the interview the Finance the next uning, She believed Port Tewfik, Alexandria, Naples,
violations have shown whither the Conference held its first meeting the thief, entered through the Monaco, and Gibraltar, and she is
spirit of political China is tending." The proceedings were formal, qualour window, which was left due in New York on April 16.
Peking, Jan. 7.. being confined to M. Clementel's open."
The ship is here about a week or
No definite indication of Feng It was stated by Sub-Inspector so later than any of the com- speech of welcome and Mr. Chur
Yu-hang's intention has yet been chill's reply,'
Wilson that the accused was seen pany's ships on previous visits.
received, although the Government Plenty Of Talk,
Temple Street yesterday | at- Among three other tempting to pawn one of the ships to follow are the steamer South Sea Islander who had in-Shao-yi will accept the portfolio of tourist invented
If I were a Persian who had expets his compliance with recent
a new religior, or
mindates. મ No details have transpired re- articles, which led to suspicion "California," which will bring vented a new dance, or a Bolshe-Foreign Affairs, but he will ret It is again reported that Tang and his arrest.
about 800 Americans early in vik sculptor, or a Peruvian sentence was deferred until to New York; the steamer Fran- foreign, and essentially idiotic, the North-West Frontier will be at
The accused pleaded guilty, and charge of Mr. Frank Clark of Anarchist, or anything bizarre tend the Conference. morrow morning, as another conia, in charge of Thos. Cook I should be received in London by Peking while the co-Directors' charge will possibly be preferred and Son, bringing about 500 tour-n coterie of admirers and led against him for returning from ists, and the steamer "Empress round, like a tame bear, to all regulations governing the latter.
Tamen will be Paotochen. of France," of the Canadian sorts of absurd meetings and vainen are being drafted. Pacific Line, on which about 500 drawing-room versed with Mr. Logan regarding In connection with the same Americans will tour the Far John Blunt in the "Daily Mail."companied by his Division, which
parties, writes
Sun Yuch arrived yesterday, ac- the American claim for repara-case, another Chinese was charged East in the latter part of April. tions. Mr. Churchill, in a com- with receiving the articles, believ- The Thos. Cook party will come Smith and I had done well in the hsition.
But if my name happened to be is quartered at Nanyan, Chang- muniqué, says that no decision
by way of the Suez Cang). was reached on actual details, but ing them to have been stolen..
war and had fallen on evil times Sun Yueh is faced with giving up through no fault of my own, then his part of Civil Governor of Honin all the advanced people, search or disbanding his troops, as Hu ing for the higher life, would take Ching-yi does not want Sun Yuel's no notice of me at all and leave me in Honum, while Li Ching-lin me to starve.
objected to their remaining insido BIZARRE SOCIETIES.
the Chihli border: England is full of superior will probably be offered the port of It is stated to-day that. Sun Yuch people whose great aim in life is Assistant Director of Military Mr. N. I. Brewer, barrister, to befriend every kind of exotic Affairs in Chibli,
The Chinese Press reports that
British circles are not sanguine of an early solution, and expect continue
the discussions to throughout the year.
Mr. Churchill subsequently con
the prospects of an early settle ment are considered favourable.
An Optimist.
Later.
banishment...
ALLEGED RECEIVER,
not guilty, and stated that the The accused entered. a plea of
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COURT REBUKE. CHIEF JUSTICE AND BARRISTER.
The
man involved in the first case, after being arrested by a detec tive, was brought to the servants' At the opening of the interquarters at No. 5, Chatham Allied Finance Conference, 1. Street, where accused lived, and Clementel said that he was con- told to bring out the stolen, arti- vinced from experience that the cles. The other man was ad- conference would reach a unami-mitted into his quarters at 3 mous solution of the problems. o'clock yesterday morning with was severely censured by the crank and humbug because in He emphasised the necessity of the articles in his possession, but Chief Justice, Sir Henry Cowper their vain emptiness they simply Than Chi-jui has sent a special in- fixing the distribution of repara- beyond being suspicious he was Gollan, in the Supreme Court have not sufficient imagination or vitation to Feng Yu-hsiang to tions, as uncertainty hindered the not aware that the goods had yesterday. In the course of the begins at home and that plain Conference, which Fong Yu-hoiung work of the Reparations Commis- been stolen.
humanity to realise that charity participate in the Rehabilitation sion, also the Finance Ministers,
evidence it was stated that Mr. The accused was discharged as Brewer had replied to a letter Smith may be a much more in-line declined, who did not know how much te no case had been made out written by the plaintiff to the Tai the latest mystic from China. credit the Budgets under the head against him.
teresting and genuine person than of reparations.
Kal-firm, and His Lordship, in giving judgment, said it surprised him very much to hear of a local barrister directly advising
ment reached in London.
A
This type of person is always bugying himself or herself on trivial and obscure committees or
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· M. Clementei declared that the conference agenda was mostly a matter of detail. There were only would not show that this convic- cuent, and on further thought his lending his name or her name to three or four dominant problems, tion was well founded. He stated surprise had not diminished. He thereby they think they are find-
fantastic which themselves were of rela that, though the interests of the understood that no question fall-
"movements." for tively secondary importance com different Allies were conflicting, ing within the jurisdiction of the ing their soula while, at the same pared with the fundamental agree each was bound to present its own Supreme Court should be dealt time, irritating their bourgeois
case. All would remember that with directly, though he under neighbours. Europe's Prosperity. indissoluble comradeship was stood it could be in Summary Just as they are the friends of Mr. Churchill, replying, endors more important than the exact Court cases. He thought it un-every country save their own, so ed M. Clementel's remarks about achievement from a particular desirable and unnecessary and are they the supporters of every the limited technical character of viewpoint. Doubtless larger regretted that any member of the cause which would be laughed out much of the work before them issues in the background awaited Bar-should-have-impinged-upon of existence on its own merits adding:Hope flies on wings and decision and agreement, but the the territory, which belonged to a They glory in being above pre- International Conference plod immediate path would not be en profession fully capable of dent judices, but they are the most afterward, along roads, but the cumbered with these. They must ing with matters of the kind, hopelessly prejudiced and small- TRY THIS FOR YOUR COUGH. conviction existe that progress te eo handle business as to disperse His Lordship gave judgment for minded people on earth, for the being made toward the unity and minor obstructions and create a defendants, without costs, and great things of life are unper-eared by a glass of water, but it will A nervous hacking cough cannot bo Trosperity of Europe."
spirit and atmosphere which exonerated those engagedon ceived by them and they are the disappens under the healing and sooth Mr. Churchill declared that would bring a solution nearer behalf of the defendants in Court, victims of their own insufferable Ing cast of Chamberlain's Cough mothing would be done which than the Allies in Europe would. from blame.
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