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BIRTHS.
P. P. Miers, a son.
Hongkong. Tuesday, October 5, 1926.
“UNEQUAL” TREATIES!
TUESDAY," OCTOBER 5, 1926.
CORRESPONDENCE desirable neighbour,
'INTERPORT: LAWN BOWLS.
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WEDDING BELLS.
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MARRIED:
SOMMERFELT-BIRCHALL.
Hong Kong has on numeroun öc... casions expressed its friendship? and goodwill towards Cantons.
Everybody in this Colony, ex- cept of course G. K. Chang, wante To the Editor of the "China Mail") to call off this boycott and to re- Sir-As a player of the grumesume normal relation and traffic of lawn bowle, I wish to take ax-between us and that city.
These are the undeniable facta, St. John's Cathedral was the ception to uncharitable remarks If Canton Is published both by Mr.
an "undesirable scene of a pretty wadding yester Wotherspoon (vice-president of neighbour, why not let the pre day afternoon, the, parties being the H.KLBA and skip of the sent condition remain where it Interport team against Shanghai) We mind our own business, Mr. Allister Sommerfelt (of the and by Mr. C. J. Tacchi (hom. sec. and Canton takes care of itself. Union Insurance Society of Canton, eon- Ltd.), son of Mrs. Sommorfult' and to the H.K.L.B.A. and a member inuation of friendly terms be-the late Captain Sommerfelt; and [of the selection committee)..
Alas *Edith Dorothy Lillian
Wm.
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But facts show that the
In the interests of the game and tween Hong Kong and Canton is if a public scandal is to be avoided, desired by all save perhaps your Birchall, daughter of
Mr.. €. I wish to ask the controversialists correspondent, G. K. Chang, to restrict themselves to facts. alarmed in saying that with the Flori Birchall, J.P. (ed Wallasey, Your correspondent is unduly Herbert Birchäll, J.P. and Mrs. Mr. Wotherspoon has had his say, Mr. Tacchi has followed and you tween the two ports, "there will The Rev. G. H. Hewitt, Naval
resumption of Intercourse be- Cheshire, England). publish a denial of imagination.
Chaplain, officiated.
Passages objected to as showing be a tremendous amount of 'Red' signs of bias outside of the issue element pouring cut from Canton
into this Island to conduct their The bride, who was given away mischievous service."
by her mother, looked charming in By Mr. Wotherspoon:-
Assuming. for the sake of argu- a dress of champagne laco over "To me it still seems absurdment only. if there are "reda" georgette with hat en suite. Sha from the Selection Committes should come that a man who had resigned wishing to start trouble here, they carried a bouquet of crimson roses,. and played for his place as
They can The bride's mother was attired in a come here now with as much black marocain with pink under player and got badly beaten intease as after the settlement of dress. the trial game should have been the boycott. Why wait? afterwards put on as the all What evidence has your corres-man. powerful selector of the term.":"
pondent in supporting such
now.
Mr, JW. Alabaster" was bost.
Mr. F. Mason, at the organ; play-
the League of Nations exist for if it is not to examine such griev. ances as "unequal Treaties?
In the scrapping of old Treaties and the framing of new Treaties, however, regard must be had to the prevailing mentality of both contracting parties and the will and the ability of both to ensure excellence there would be no feed Canton has no more Reds than we attended by many friends of The truth is that Following the ceremony, which the due fulfilment of all obliga-to pick anybody else. One can be New York or London.
the bride and bridegroom, a recep rotten player but a fine judge, The Hong Kong Government Peak, following which Mr. and tion was held at "Hillcrest, the "I would here emphasise that knows how to handle the situa-re. Sommerfelt left för Fanling, Mr. Gow, although putting him- tion, and your correspondent's where the honeymoon is being" self forward as a candidate for Red advice serves no other pur- had never during the past season which sensible persons like to playing in this. Interport team, pose than to create ill-feeling played in any League matches." avoid.
I fall to see how a man's play statement? No suggestion hased the Bridal March from Lehen-
capacity has anything to do been made to Canton asking that with his selection capabilities. If no Reds be permitted to come to! selectors must be players par Hong Kong.
Furin.
The
a
I Mr. Wotherspoon, was satis- fied with the selection committee, he would not have proposed an amendment.
Yours, etc...
MENTOR.
Hong Kong, Oct. 4.
Yours, etc.,
"F.C Hong Kong, October 5.
"A PEOPLE OF THE AIR"
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spent.
The bride travelled in a beige crepe de chine jumper suit.
The bride's gift to the bride- groom was a gold wrist watch and that of the bridegroom to the bride ba string of pearls.
DUNCAN.
tione undertaken. If it takes two to maké à quarrel it likewise takes two to keep a Treaty Is China to-day in a fit state to be given new Treatles-Treaties, that is, of a nature that she could regard as All the emphasis Mr. Wother-I an improvement on the old? The spoor can lay will make no differ- whole country is disrupted by The biggest mug can put himself ence-obviously a red herring. civil war. There is no strong Cen-forward as a candidate for Vice- tral Government. "The North and Chancellor of Cambridge (and USE OF WORD "KWAR" South are at daggers drawn, each may get the job). Mr. Gow's ab-| endeavouring by hook or by crook sence from the League has To the Editor of the "China Mail"] to gain the ultimate permanent managership, or any other asso-letter of "Refinement" published
nothing to do with his captaincy, Sir, read with "interest tho SILVER WEDDING. mastery. And yet, in the height ciation with the H.K. interport in your paper last Thursday on PRESENTATION TO MR. GEOG. of all this welter of blood and combination: The H.K.L.B.A. the subject of the use of "Kwai" GOODEVE-On September 17. amid all the "buying" of Generals gave him certain authority and among the illiterate class of the 1026, at "The Firs," Kandy, to by the opposing factions, certain they are the highest local author-Chiness community. I am glad the wife of G. W. Goodeva sections in China can find time to ity for the game.
that "Refinement" finds that this
Yesterday a presentation was Kudoya Estate, Hutton, a son repeat the parrot cries of "un
I agree with Mr. Wotherspoon now common expression to denote..Whampoa Deck Co. or the made to Mr. G. Duncan, of the MBERS-On September 18, 1924
at Keenagaha Ella. Balangoda, equal Treaties," "the yoke of the when he says, that "Mr. Gow's all foreigners is only used among occasion of his silver wedding. A
appointment as sole dictator was this class. Ceylon, to the wife of Captain foreigners," "the hunting dogs of very unfortunate for Hong Kong "ence in many parts of China Imembers of the staff gathered in From my own experi- large number of the European the foreigners, etc., and to pour The chopping and changing could have found this expression used PARMENTER-On September 17 out on the Powers vollers of not have conduced to getting the by all classes and in the majority Chairmanship of Mr. Macaskill the Reading Room under the 1926, at Hatten Nursing Home,
best team work..
of cases without any idea of inho said there may have been Ceylon, to Berenece, wife of verbal abuse! Thai, surely, is a Rev. G. E. P. Parmenter, a son. very ill-advised way in which to account of his part in the inter-expression
As regard Mr. Wotherspoon's ficting an insult but juss as an silver weddings among them before plead for the abolition of "un-port game," an impartial critic can foreigner..
to indiente thebut this was a case where they had equal" Treaties! The violation only on what he provides---- I think in a large number of hoped that though most of them been married in the Dock, He of existing Treaties, at the bid-exonerate him from failure and cases the main trouble between did not expect to be there, they ding of the emissaries of Moscow, give him crédit for having dope Chinese and foreigners is that would hear of their Golden Wed- It does not greatly matter to the surely earnot strike. the mosti
This very best.
both sides are too apt to imagining ding. The presentation was made insults where none is meant. Powers what kind of Government sagacious of China's leaders as an By Mr. Tacchi:-
by Mr. R. Lapsley, the oldest mem" Enclosing, my card,
ber of the Dock Stam. He sat he or Governments are installed in ideal method of securing relief
felt grateful to be allowed to make China, save and except any that from "unequal" Treaties.
threat of not abstaining from the
the presentation as his wife had. are determined to flout interna-legal boycott of foreign, goods.
been Mrs. Duncan's bridesmaid, "The inference to be drawn
Mr. Duncan," he continued.. was a tional Treatics and menace the for a single day is not likely to from this is that he considers
man who was always willing to go lives, and property of foreigners impress outsiders with the sin-him to be the only bowler in
out of his way, to do extra work In the latter case it is, and always cerity of China's case in her re-.
Hong Kong capable of acting as To the Editor of the "China Mail"]'
and to help others, will be, the bounden duty of the lations with the Powers! If "un of course, that he has no personal Monitor" raises an interesting several who were there when he re- Captain of the team, assuming.
SirYouT
Mr. Duncan auitably replied, say- correspondenting that, on looking round he saw respective Powers to take all ade-equal" Treaties do exist, it looks animosity against Mr. Gow. He qustion and, synchronising as his ceived his wedding present from quate measures to bring such a as if the greatest cause for goes on to state that Mr. Holland letter did, with Captain Cobham's the then staff. He told them they Government to their senses, grievance lies on the side of the and himself both ' 'understood'
them that Powers by the continuous and pro- that the team had been teeted Australis, provides material for of his wife as she had a great deal return from. his flight to should not talk so much of him as anet to, teach
vocative breaches thereof by the Hong Kong. It would be in much study. Treaties are mode to be
teresting to know from what
to do with everything. In his case respected by
In the course of his speech the phrase "better half" did not both contract-
source this vital understanding when introducing the air estimates express nearly enough. ing parties thereto. If any par Viva a Republica Portugueza,
was obtained.".
in the House of Commone fast The first sentence is very un February, Sir Samuel Hoare, Sec-
Mr. Scott added:- ticular Treaty or. Treaties are Sixteen years ago to-day a re charitable and falls altogether fretary of State for Air, said that I how excellent a man our friend regarded by any section "of the public was proclaimed in Portugal it was meant to be a scathing his air policy was to provide Mr. Duncan is, and I venture to say Chinese to be "unequal" or unfair and a provisional Government criticism.
Mr.
Wotherspoon Home defence against air attack: to. his face what all of us think was established with the blame therefore cannot whol-Théophile Braga as the Provision-ain of the tour, the other materes parts of the Empire to undertake cheere: chum exists amongst pa Dr. thought he was the skip and cap to provide air defence in suitable that no more steadfast friend, no ly be laid on the shoulders of the al President To-day the Portu- being aary to the interports, the required wir work for the although Powers; equally culpable must be guese community of Hong Kong Re the second and third sent Army and Navy: to develop civil friends and neighbours in our we have many kind are celebrating the birthday of bences: Why did not. Mr. Tacchi air routes over the face of the midst. " those Chinese statesmen who put their Republic, and on behalf oflat the time "publish the team as Empire and to "help the British their signatures thereto. To our readers, we extend to them officially chosen?" And if the people to become a people of the gentleman, it exceeds one-third of Twenty-five years is long spell condemn certain Treaties as "un-hearty and cordial greetings. The team published by you was wrong i equal" is merely to castigate neglected are precisely those
reasons for which Portugal is why did Mr. Tacchi not deny it?
the generally alloted, span of our The last two paragraphs are to be congratulated upon his however our friends Mr. and Mrs.
Sir Samuel Hoare is certainly existence, for that space of time- China herself. Why should the which in some eyes make her lov-very sensible. "foreign Imperialists" that able. For half a century art has To you and all concerned, Str, of civil flying and the expansion most sacred ties by which, we policy as regards the promotion Duncan have been united by the catchword of the pre-Bolshevist done almost nothing for the would point out that everything in of air knowledge. The growing mortals can be bounda
natural river highways: and the black and white is the best pre-safety and control ability of aero- party in China--alone have to Douro, the Guadiana, and the ventative. Mr. Wotherspoon erred;
All those years they have stood bear all the brunt and be singled Tagus' flow through the country in not asking for a mandate but planes has an important bearing as an example of domestic elicits out for venomous attacks? Those like, wandering rivulets of great took things for granted. The ficans of all developments in and affection the sons growing up upon the newest and most signi- and we have watched with interesi Chinese who indulge in such English parks The large towns selection committee erred in not aviation that of the popular to manhood, the ornaments of this
of the interior look like pretty defining the position beforehand. State-aided flying club. There truly domestic hearth. claptraps as "hunting dogs of the kiosks: rising above flowing Gow had his authority and are, I understand, wiready five foreigners," the "foreign imper thickets: peaceful retreats, soli-acted on it, but unwisely in aiming light aeroplane clubs in Britain it is the twenty-fifth anniversary of So gentlemen, let us be merry, ialists," and
forth
tude animated with a life that at "the maximum of fun for with over a thousand members, happy day, often to be overtaken. jogs along quietly and does not everybody" instead of concentra A sum of £30,000 is being spent let us hope to future years. atrociously poor students
go with leaps and bounds as in bing on one rink. Meanwhile by the Air Ministry in the encour China's.
The spring is gone, it may be Own past history. France, where a satisfied human-advise everybody including myself agement of this scheme and it may the summer la passing, perhaps Treaties are made for a purpose. ity stands still, instead of rushing to shut up forthwith instead of be anticipated that further grants but there is yet the golden autumn They are framed in accordance future. Truly a child-like, na When the "Sunday Hernd" has Justified may be judged from the harvest of good seeds shall be reap into the unknown risks of the washing timen ad interim will follow. That Stats aid a well of their lives to come, when, the with the exigencies of the ture, satisfied with little, pursuing answered the obvious question fact that each pilot trained by the ed in troops of friends and loving moment.. If certain of the terms the ideal, economical without Mr. Wotherspoon asks (ou per clubs will be expected to join the Toasts were given with musicni avarice, pure in morals, sober, sonal playing honours) the matter Royal Air Force Reserve, and this honours and several old friends of are harsh, that in itself implies a
memories.ANMARAM
generous, hospitable, the Portu is completely closed. S previous falling from grace of one guese have bred heroes in place
means that Britain will be build Duncan's said a few words Enclosing my card, of the contracting parties. But of diplomats, poets in place of
ing up that human reservoir of air after which an impromptu concert, Yours, etc.,
power which will be all-important DIOGENES.
was held.
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later date,
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