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tremely impressive, tending to re-echo his hope that at long last China has found a man able and willing to rise superior to sordid
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1927.
MAN WHO WAS ROBBED TWICE.
WHIPPING FOR PICKPOCKET.
A Chinese youth was charged
MR. GEORGE ROBEY.
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LONDON'S CHAMPION
PESSIMIST.
"ENGLAND RUN BY WOMEN! PAH!"
will not lose sight of the rider DID NOT KNOW IT. added to the verdict at the inquiry into the death of the little_girl killed by a motor bus in Bonham Rond on May 29. The jury, it will be remembered, returned a ver dict of "death by misadventure," attaching no blame to the bus driver in any way. However they added a recommendation that
George Robey looked round signs similar to those outside before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this him sternly, sighed, and said: schools should be placed outside morning with picking the pocket "I'm a pessimist now-an abso- Churches and other places of of a Chinese in Wanchai last lute pessimist." assembly, especially all places night.
He was not jesting on the day where children gather. Such a According to the complainant of his 20,000th stage appearance. measure is at once se sensible and he was among a crowd standing At the age of 57 he looked on so inexpensive that there can be outside Isako's Circus when the world and found it rotten.
His famous eyebrows waggled no excuse for any delay in carry- Chinese constable approached ing it into effect.
him with the accused in custody with despairing wrath as we and asked him if he had lost talked, writes an "Evening anything." He searched his News" representative. His pockets and found that $2.50 in famous whimsical voice, which WORKERS' RIGHTS.money and a knife and two keys has moved millions of people to on aring were missing. The laughter, almost moved me to accused was searched by the con-tears as he condemned, in PROBLEMS BEFORE LABOUR stable and the knife and keys great sweep, the modern genera- were found on his person. The tion, the modern stage hands, money was, not recovered.
votes for flappers, sex plays, The constable said he saw the wireless" and the whole blame Geneva, June 14.
accused pick the complainant's shoot." At the Labour Conference, on pocket and immediately grabbed He shook a warning finger the ground that the draft ques- him. The witness did not think it at me. "Never mind about tionnaire as regards the freedom possible for the accused to pass my career," he said, glancing of association has been amended the money to someone else before menacingly around the lounge of by the governments so as not to he was caught. He was inclined the Piccadilly Hotel. afford protection for the workers' to the belief that the complain- don't want to write about my rights, the workers' delegates ant's pocket had been picked once career, Listen to me. voted against the questionnaire, previously and the money re- which was rejected by 54 to 42 moved. The accused was appar votes.
ently the second member of the A resolution was finally adopt-light finger brigade to pick out eil hy 50 to 42 votes to refer the the complainant as a victim. subject back to the committee with a view to reaching a com- promise between the contending views of the workers and employ- ers.-Reuter.
CONFERENCE.
The Magistrate convicted and Inspector Blackman proved two previous convictions last year.
one
"You
A Serious Man, Really. "I'm a pessimist. Surprised? Why should you be! Because I act the jester on the stage? Well, that's my job.
"I'm a serious man, really. "This votes for flappers non- Mr. Lindsell: You were whip- sense.
What on earth's the use ped twice before. Do you like of it? I thought when they gave it? I was beaten only once.
women the vote at all it was You enjoyed it, I suppose? about time for another war. You will receive 12 strokes this And now to give votes to girls of
21-it's asinine!
the
HEALTH RESTORED. [time,
MR. J. R. MACDONALD TO RETURN TO POLITICS.
Rugby, June 14,
leader
"Why, they'll vote for man who can play the saxophone
DAIRY FARM WATER. best. They'll vote for "
CARRYING OUT FILTER TESTS.
He broke off, with a twitch of the eyebrows, to attack the modern girl en masse. "She's all gone to pieces," he said, fierce- ly, "She thinks she can run this
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, of His Majesty's Opposition, who has been convalescing at Lossie- SANITARY BOARD REFERENCE Country, England run by women
mouth, states in a letter to his Party
-pah! that he is no longer an invalid and anticipates that he will return to:
Look at the young man of to- The installation of a filter at the day. He's feeble. I don't blame politics at the end of the month-Dairy Farm, Pokfulam and the him altogether the war took his British Wireless Service.
Carrying out of a series of tests father and his big brother away which will extend over a consider
ALLEGED FRAUD.
FAR EASTERN MERCHANT SWINDLED.
,
able period was mentioned at the from him, and let him run loose. Sanitary Board meeting yesterday. But what can you do with him?" The experiments are being conduct- The famous eyebrows twitched ed, said Mr. N. L. Smith, the Presi- again as George Robey turned on |dent, by the Principal Civil Medical another scent.
Offeer and staff of experts.
Mr. J., P. Braga remarked that he Tail, and Those Who Don't. and Dr. Macgown had minuted re- "The modern workman!" he garding the question of the Dairysaid. "I'à put them all on piece- Farm filter and having regard to
personal interests and to sacrifice everything possible on the altar of China's eventual salvation, In Mr. Norman's words, "he is imbued with the ideal of a united China, peaceful and prosperous, and is not actuated by the base motives of self-aggrandisement
Calgary, June 14. or lust of wealth or power.” Three men have been arrested, the necessity of keeping the sources work. I'd make them work. I'm
allegedly international "confidence Moreover, says the same
Au-tricksters, and charged with swind- of water there entirely free from not for the under-dog-I'd make suspicion he would like to have an the under-dog learn to be some- thority, "he has no vices, no ling W. J. Brown described as bad habits, and lives within his wealthy Far Eastern merchant of assurance that this water should thing else..
not be used whilst the experiments "On the tombstone of the Bri- $50,000. income; he does not gamble, does}
It was tish Empire you'll find this in- The arrested men were in pos- were being undertaken.
very necessary that the Colony's | scribed. session of $250,000, supposedly not lead a life of luxury, and has counterfelt Mexican dollar bilis milk supply should be protected few wants." And much more in Reuter's American Service.
the same strain, which makes us realise more than ever the in- mense hold that Chiang Kai-shek has taken over the Chinese, mili-
PRESIDENT'S HOLIDAY.
from any possible direct con- tamination of indirect contamina- tion through cleansing.
The President remarked that he would take up the point.
How Many More Hours to
Work?
And How Much Do I Get for
Them?
"It's the same with stage
There was no other business of hands. You should see how they public interest at the meeting at stand about. I just brush them Washington, June 14. which there were present. In adul-out of the way. "People say to Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 15, 1927, tary and civilian, in those ter-
President and Mrs. Coolidge tion to the President, the following: me, They'll kill you one of these ritories over which he is supreme have proceeded to the Black Hills, Mr. Wang Kwong-tin. Mr.
J. P. days.". to-day. Almost gratefully we South Dakota, to spend the sum- Braga, the Hon. Mr. H. T. Jackman
"What do I care? Let 'em!" notice that Mr. Norman does not mer midst the forest twelve miles (Acting Director of Public Works).
The great mirth-maker, in- from the railway station; Parts Dr. G. W. Pope (Medical Officer of adyance the claim that Chiang of the finest trout streams in the Health) and Mr. D. Davies (Secretensely earnest, told how he goes
THE MAN OF THE HOUR.
EGYPTIAN CRISIS ENDED.
SEDITION CHARGE.
to Bolshevist meetings every Saturday, and bawls them down. "I tell 'em what they are," he said.
A pleasing picture of General Kai-shek is something in the na- the President and his guests.
Black Hills have been reserved for tary). Chiang Kai-shek is furnished by ture of a superman, although Reuter's American Service. Mr. R. S. Norman, legal adviser it is good to be told that he is
And then, with eyebrows fly- to the General and to the Na-a clean man-clean morally,
Chang Kong, who was last week ing, he turned to attack sex plays. tionalist Government at Nanking mentally, and physically." More
formally remanded on a charge of "Why can't they keep that stuff -pleasing because it may pre- than that is not asked of any
possession of seditious literature for the pulpit?" he demanded. was this morning produced before"It's degenerate, anyway. I'm sent to the outside public views individual, be he private or Gen-
Major C. Willson.
not afraid to say it-degenerate. quite at variance with those form-eral, but a combination of such presentation of Sarwat Pasha's the transitor at the Secretariat Who wants to hear it in the
Sub-Inspector Andrews said that attributes ought to carry Chiang reply to the British Note, asking for Chinese Affairs was unable to
theatre?" Kai-shek very far in his objec-Egyptian Government's
for further explanations of the attend Court that morning, but he attitude could put in translations duly sign- tive-the complete unification of and the Residency's acceptance ofed by the translator if the Magis
the reply. Reuter. China and the building up of a prosperous and peaceful nation.
ed up to the present. Every man, of course, has his enemies, and none more so than the leader of a military expedition based on securing the unification of China by means of the sword. In the past the war lords of China have with good reason been suspect: their objective was always self- aggrandisement and
Traffic Dangers.
During his term as Governor of
Cairo, June 14. The crisis has ended with the
DALLROOM SHOOTING.
Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 14. Eleven were killed and 27 wounded at a dunce last night by soldiers who fired on the dancers.
ter.
trate would accept them.
Major Willson thought that the translations had better be proved,
Sub-Inspector Andrews then ap-| plied for another remand in order to produce the translator.
Hearing of the case was fixed for 11.30 a.m., on Saturday.
Long Live the Ancient Jokes!
He sprang to the defence of the great jokes-the
Mother-in-law, Hen-pecked husband, and Red-hot poker.
those "The highbrows say jokes are dead. Nonsense! Peo- ple will always laugh at a mother- in-law on the stage. So they will at a red-hot poker. Those things MUD AND STONES.
are human, aren't they?
And it's the human things. Rowdyism outside. Isako's Cir- that last. Believe me, the red-
their Hong Kong Sir Edward Stubbs methods of reaching that objec- spent a brief holiday in the Philip They were allegedly obeying the tive were ever more or less ruth-pines. Interviewed by the "China orders of an officer who was re- less. Thus, it was easy to deal Mail" on his return, he made fused admission to the ballroom. in comparisons when speaking some caustic remarks about traffic The soldiers were arrested. Reu-cus at Wanchai, the second case hot poker will live longer than about Chiang Kai-shek, particu-control in Hong Kong, adding: larly when some of his own actions and utterances seemed strangely inharmonious to the foreigner whose interests were menaced or imperilled.
If it is fair to give even the
NICARAGUA.
Washington, June 14.
of its nature within two days, was any of this sex business: smartly punished by Major C.
As for wireless-"Well, how Willson yesterday afternoon when can you broadcast a red-hot he fined a Chinese $50 or four
poker? You can't. weeks' jail for throwing stones. "I broadcast once myself. And
An Indian watchman employed at
that we could learn much from Manila. These remarks and the subsequent tour of the Captain
the Circus saw the accused throw the chief good it did was to help Superintendent of Police to study: police methods at Home and in Five hundred United States blue-ing the stones and was hit by one an old lady to keep her maids. of them on the shoulder. He They were on the point of leav- the United States appear to have fackets are being withdrawn from chased and caught the accused. ing, but they listened-in on her borne fruit. Since that time Nicaragua following the disarma- According to Sergeant Rozeskwy set and decided to stay, special attention has been paid to ment of the contending factions, this kind of nuisance had been go- traffic control in Hong Kong and but it has been decided that 8,500 ing on for some days. Sometimes wasn't it? a man in the exalted position of there is no doubt that the Colony barines shall remain in the coun- the hooligans threw mud bealites to-day is much better organised try-Reuter's American Service. General Chiang Kai-shek credit in this respect. The latest step where credit is deserved. It mayin making our streets safer is the
installing of an Aga traffic signal be that his American legal ad-ling device at the junction of Fed- viser is biased in much the same der Street and Des Vœux Road.
devil his due it must be only plain and square justice to give
manner that every loyal employes This junction being one of the
busfest in the Colony, the expert-
BATAVIAN COMMUNISTS.
stones, and on one occasion
器
Chinese gentleman had his cont damaged to the extent of $30.
"That was a great work,
"Gulliver wants £10,000 to lift
his ban. T'say it's too little. He should ask more."
Two Apples a Day Money and jewellery worth He rose to go, sadly. "Sup- $176 was stolen from No. 124, pose I've surprised you, haven't Batavia, June 14. Connaught Road Central last I?" he said. Didn't think I was Two native communists were night.
a pessimist? is to a muster who treats himment will be watched with inter-killed and two police wounded in a
"Well, I'm 57, you know. I well. Still, after deducting a cer-est, especially as we are told that, fight between communiste and the A burglar entered the second have to breakfast off two ap tain percentage of his statements after the new device has been police at a village near Macassar.
Twelve rioters were arrested in-floor of No. 383, Shanghai Street, ples, now, to keep fit. Great Yaumati, last night and made a things, apples. Oh yes, great given a lengthy trial, the system cluding the leader, who on the ground of alight exaggera- may be extended to other points seriously wounded.
was Some com- haul of jewellery and clothing things. tion, the pen picture which he in the Colony. Meanwhile, we munist literature was seized and worth $81. The theft was not dis- "Retire? No, I don't suppose draws of Chiang Kai-shek is ex-trust that the traffic authorities order soon restored-Reuter. covered until this morning. I shall retire till I'm dead."