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ed. And so to-morrow, American citizens, at Home and abroad, ini Hong Kong and elsewhere, will lift up their voices in thanks- giving Yet to those whose thought is clear, whose minds are ordered in harmony with Princi- ple, the day and its observances are but symbolical of a mental atate which persists throughout the year. As good cheer, love and generosity need in no wise be limited to Christmas Day, 30, equally the spirit of thanksgiving, the outpouring of gratitude for blessings received, are fitly mani- fested every day in the year, and hot alone on the last. Thursday in November.
CORRESPONDENCE.
COUNSEL FOR DEFENCE.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1926.
SNOW IN CHEFOO.
"Red Spear" Bandits Again Active.
BUTCHERS ON STRIKE.
Varied Notes From the North.
THANKSGIVING DAY.
"TO-MORROW'S AMERICAN
ANNIVERSARY.
PRESIDENT'S" PROCLAMATION.
To-morrow will be observed by Amorican citizens throughout the world as "Thanksgiving Day"-a day set apart by Progídeptial pro- clamation as a day of thanksgiving for the blessings, of the year then Lended,
not be,
(From Our Own: Correspondent.]
Chefoo, Nov. 12; The activities of "Red Spear" and Thanksgiving Day may other bandits in various parts of observed in Hong Kong on such a the Province are proving a menace lavish scale as is the case in the
to many.
However, the Officials United States or oven in Shanghai, are on the watch and some of the where there is a large Amesican bandits have been caught and sum-community, but, generally speaking, marily dealt with. There is stilocal Americans will observe the much room
for improvement, but day as an unofficial holiday. Most for every effort made, however of the business houses will be small the people are thankful closed, whilst only one offękal will The Y.M.C.A. have been holdingbe on duty at the United States To the Editor of the "China Maik“)
4 campaign against" Opium and Consulate-General for the purpose: Sir, was somewhat aston- allied Drugs, and we trust their of dealfhg with urgent matters. ished to read in Saturday's issue efforts will be crowned with suc- There will of course, be many Edinner parties both in private homes of your esteemed journal the cess. amazing statement that “only During one of the many storms and at the local caravanseries in when a man facce the capital which have visited this const "this the evening, whilst special arrange- charge does, the Crown furnish season, two fishermen were drown-ments have been made to give the him with Counsel to defend!" led despite the efforts made by their American sailors and marines
good time on board their ships, " The sentence quoted was pub-fellows to save them. lished in connection with the re- Kao Taoyin has been away on
President's Proclamation. port of the "Sunning" pirates-visit to Mukden to solicit help from In accordance with time-honous- for whom, of course, I hold no Marshal Chang, and it is reported fed custom, President Coolidge has ¡brief.
that large quantities of ammunition issued a Thanksgiving Day Pro-
A
Dal
I do not think it is necessary are now on their way to this Pro-ciumation. This, which we publish for me to rub it in." but. any devince as the result of his visit. by courtesy of the United Status. fendant--or even a plainti in a
Consul-Generul, reads as follows:-- j . Social, Changes civil action-is entitled to be Several residents have left us:
"As a nation we have passed an- legally represented provided he, since I laat wrote, among them other twelve months in the favour, He has smiled or she, can satisfy the judge being our genial Consul, Mr. J. of the Almighty. that he or she, has a good case Smith, who is, leaving for a well on our fields and they have brought and is" without the means to pay earned furlough His successor, forth plenty, business has. pros- counsel.
M. E. F. Garstin, hus arrived and pered industries have flourishesi, This, however, is not the point taken over duties, at the British and labour has been well employ which occurred to my mind when Consulage. `
ed. While sections of our country reading the foregoing. What
The last of the series of Lectures have been visited by disaster we lam tempted to ask, is how much which have been given at the have been spared any great.
or pestilentiab longer is the cowardly pretence c. I. M. Memorial Hall this Terminal calamity. that there is one law for rich and was delivered by Mr. R. A. Bruce, visitation. We are blessed among poor alike to continue? As a BA, his subject being Racial the nations of the earth. Home paper recently very pertin- Problems." The lecture was most "Our moral and spiritual life ently asserted: "Every lawyer interesting and instructive, Mr. has kept measure with our material from that which has been venti- knows it is a lie." A poor de Bruce dealing with many sides of prosperity. We are not unmindful lated in certain quarters of China fendant cannot claim legal assist the question, and closing with a stir of the gratitude we owe to God for ance unless he at first discloses ring appeal to all to face and share his watchful care which pointed; within the past eighteen months. his defence, and then it is grant- the problems of the land in which out to us the ways of peace, and a In itself it is fresh evidence of ed only at the discretion of the we live in a true spirit of brother-happiness. We should not fall in that judge. Yet the prosecution in a iness and thus be helpers the one our acknowledgment of his divina the oft reiterated statement that criminal case has ever the finest to the other
favour which has bestowed upon the best Chinese thought whe-legal talent at its command. The The Rev. A. H. Faers was Chair-us 30 many blessings; neither ther that be in Hong Kong, Can- Poor Prisoners Defence Actis man and introduced the Lecturer. should we be forgetful of those ton, or Peking-recognises the little more than a farce, and the
We regret to note that after many among us who, through stress of worth of British friendship and sooner the law is altered the bet-years of faithful and unremitting circumstances, are less fortunately
ter for all concerned. British, policy in regard to Chin- ese questions.
:
To return, however, to the Chinese merchants' appreciation
of the "Sunning" officers hero-
...
Yours, etc...
Hong Kong, Nov. 28, 1926.
LOX.
ism, the Chamber is to be com- WHAT THEY EARN. mended in striking whilst the) iron is hot. It has promptly de- cided to open a fund and, .more-
over, expressed the belief that the Shanghai merchants, who
WORKERS OF CANTON'S ARSENAL.
INTERESTING BUDGET.
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service Mr. Tan Tai has resigned placed, but, by deeds of charity.
our, acknowledgment more from the Chairmanship of the make Chinese Chamber of Commerce, acceptable in his sight. This will not only be a great loss
"Wherefore, I, Calvin Coolidge,
to that body, but will have its effect President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the on the whole of the business world hereby of this
twenty-fifth day of November next,
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as a day of general thanksgiving. The Officials of the Chefoo Club and prayers, and I recommend that are doing their best to cater for the on that day the people shall cease amusement of the public during from their daily work and in their these long evenings, by showing homes, or in their accustomed some high-class cinema pictures places of worship, devoutly give once a week, and we are glad to thanks to the Almighty for the have equally tuch at stake, was felt over the strike at the much appreciated.
Although considerable alarm suy that their efforts are being many and great blessings they have received, and seek his guidance. through good- deeds and would wish to co-operate. Of the Cantor Arsenal, it is interesting A tax upon the local butchers by that success of the fund there should to note that the total for wages the Chief of Police has resulted in brotherly love they may deserve n be not the slightest doubt. When and salary-as asked for by the a meat strike... We hear that ar-continuance of his favour.
witness whereof. I have men-only amounts to $60,000 a rangements are being made to meet the Chinese give to such a cause month.
the demand by considerably raising hereby set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the they give unsparingly. When the
the price of meat.
United States. Another, tax is being levied on
"Done on the thirtieth day of invitation to co-operate renches
the Postal parcel service of two per the European General Chamber
Total employed-1,730; work cent, on all parcels, both inward October, in the year of our Lord fof Commerce the seal should be ing in night and day shifts. and outward, going through, the one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-six and of the independence Of this number, 90 per cent, mails.. set on a splendid community
The new building which has been of the United States the one hun- are at work every day. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1926. effort to recognise the heroism of are permanently employed, La.,
erected in Beach Street for the dred and fifty-firab those on whom is dependent our
The budget for each depart-postal service is now ready, communication with the outsidement of the Arsenal is world-on whom we rely for our trade in the China Sea.
CLARKE-At Shanghai, "on the 18th instant,. William Edward' Clarke, late Director the Hong Kong Canton & Macao Steam- boat Co., Ltd.
THOSE "SUNNING” HEROES.
Suggested originally in the "China Mail" it is gratifying to find the Chinese General Chamber
of Commerce deciding to recog- Thanksgiving Day.
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The following statistics were presented by the Canton Arsenal
workers:
Rifles Smokeless ammunių.
tion....
Machines
400 270 Machine-guns 150 Smokeless powder" 81 ***Bullets"
49 Others
200
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A BLACK EYE,
AND ANOTHER MAN'S
SWEETHEART.
POLICE COURT COMEDY.
and
Acting Secretary of State.
CAUTIONED.
STORY OF A BRIBE NOT- PROVED."
the efforts of the Fire Brigad, this morning,
Sgt. Nolloth informed His much damage was done, three, shops being completely gutted. We Worship that he had been inves hear that all three shops were in-tigating the matter, but had not been able to secure evidence to 'sured:
corroborate the story of the de- fendant.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, the opening day is fixed for the By the President,
JOSEPH C. GREW. Men Pay 15th instant when the officials will 580 $21,000 be "At Home" in their new premises for the transaction of business. | 12.000 The building is a Ane one, being! 10,000 imposing in size and graceful in 7,200 appearance. It is one of the very
M 3,800 best buildings in the port. 1,500 A. P. Dowglass, the Architect, and nise the gallantry of the officers The United States of America
4,500 Messrs. Wang Teh Cheng, the The case in which a Chinese of the pirated "Sunning." Mr. is the one nation in the world that,
builders are to be congratulated on youth, charged with obstruction before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Ho lu, in his letter to the Cham- by act of its Chief Executive, sets
1,780 $60,000 the completion of their work.
Magistracy The arbitration committee: to
had on Monday, Serious Fire.. ber on the subject, struck the aside one day annually for the
settle the strike found that both A serious fire broke out in the pleaded that the constable who right note when he stated that public expression of gratitude to the management and the
men Chinese city during the early hours arrested him had demanded "a the heroism of the "Sunning" Almighty God for the blessings of were partly to blame for the trou-of Wednesday morning, and despite bribe, was again before the Court officers in fighting as they did the previous twelve-months. That ble. against auch overwhelming odds, righteous custom, established first had dealt a staggering blow to by the handful of pilgrims brav the activities of the pirates. Hoing the hardships of winter on the considered that the commercial bleak coast of Massachusetts Bay,
Several good 'Football matche have been held this season between
"You must understand," said community, who would ultimately has become an annual tribute paid
the Settlement and Boys' School reap the benefit, should mark cheerfully by a nation of more
teams. The playing has been very the Magistrate, "that because, as a member of the Homeless Boys' their appreciation of the bravery than 110,000,000 people. It is one
oven, both sides winning a fair num Club, the Police give you a free shown.
Įber of goals. Another fine note was
Armistice Day was observed here licence, you are not immune from If you are atruck when he expressed "the has not become distorted in its ob"He hit me first-he was with
servance. A day of feasting and my sweetheart," said a Chinese yesterday, commencing with a short the regulations. opinion that their gratitude was of.thanksgiving it remains, and if charged with assault before Mr.and very impressive service at St. brought up again, J,shall fire you.
This time, you are cautioned. also due to the officera and men at times it seems the emphasis is R. E. Lindsell at the Central Andrew's Church, conducted by the Rov. B. M. McOwan, The two laid rather upon the feast than Magistracy this morning. upon the thanks, in the main it "I see, but he didn't hurt you minutes' silence was observed at 11 ready assistance at all times in statide as an annual tribate of very much did he? He was an a.m. by the whole congregation ladies, working like Trojans, at the making the coast of China safe gratitude for the good that God interloper," observed His Worstanding. The British Consul and last minute came to the rescue, with for shipping and thereby making has given. A cynic has said that ship, who added, "Well, you a large number of residents attend the result that by their combined trade possible. Coming from Gratitude la" a lively sense of blacked his eye for him, as you ed, and the Service closed with the efforts 3225, was netted for. Earl such a source, this excellent cynical phrases, this is untrue. pensation.
favours yet to come." Like most had better pay him $1 as com-singing of the National Anthem. A Haig's Fund," "making, with the
pay him 81 as
Collection was taken on behalf of Charch Collection, a total of $29) sentimentfully endorsed by the Yet it has in it the germ of a great Complainant said that he did Earl Haly's Fund for Disabled which will be forwarded la dun Chinese Chamber of Commerce truth. Gratitude is the most not consider $1 was sufficient He Soldiers, course to help a little in this grand will undoubtedly be much valued effective form of prayer to Omni- had also been hit in the chest. During the evening a very sue work for the amelioration of auffer- potence for support, supply, aid Is Worship: If you interfere cessful dinner and entertainment fng among the men who fought so and blessings yet to be received, A between man and his sweet was given at the invitation of the gallantly and are more or less dis sense of one's present blessings heart, there is always liable to be Ex-Service Ken, concluding with abled for life and grateful acknowledgment of trouble. You've got a black eye dance which was greatly enjoyed. Our first fall of snow fell last with a Friday covering, the bill v ...Ladies Make Poppin them, is the most certain form of and will get a dollar for It Your appal for their continuance and can both sign a bond to keep the The usual box of poppies failed white mantle for the best part of
to reach us in time, so several local the day, for their enlargement when need-peace for six months...
of the British gunboats for their
by the British naval authorities, It places the greatly maligned "British Imperialism," of which the Bolshevist crowd make ao much, in a light entirely different
of the few national holidays that
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