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CORRESPONDENCE.
THOSE WOMEN.
(To the Editor of the "Chins Mail.")
Sir, There can be few people whole-heartedly who did not.
with Mr. Jenkin's re-
concur
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1927.
INDIAN MERCHANT.
ENTERTAINED AT DINNER IN PRAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
HONG KONG.
A PROPOSED CLUB.
Mr. Narain Disidas and his wife, General Chiang Kai-shek, who marks regarding the "ladies of who are making a tour of the world, has retired a rich man, has been the village who are apparently were entertained at
dinner last
'Bus Conductor (to Jew with Mr. G. P. Daswani made a strik-large parcel by his side in 'bus); ing speech of welcome to the guests Fares Penny for you and on behalf of the Association, and threepence for the parcel. both Mr. and Mrs. Narain Dialdas replied.
Jew (to parcel): Isaac, come
Teacher (sternly); Talking again? You two boys in the back will write your names out one hundred times.
Soon 'one boy handed in his paper happily. The other boy began to weep..
amusing themselves to the dis-night by the Hindu Merchants invited to invest in property in comfiture of my unfortunate Association at the residence of Hong Kong. cllent," and with the stern rebuke Messrs. W. Assemull, Mr. A. D. of the learned judge which Lalchand presided. followed,
In my humble opinion the sooner the dock is abolished alto gether, the better. That a man
A silver jewellery box was pre-out. It's cheaper sitting down. should be placed in such a posi- tion pending the decision of the sented to Mrs. Narain Dialdas in re- jury seems quite inconsistent cognition of the fact that she is with the fundamental principle of among the first of the Sind ladies British criminal law which holda to make a tour of the world,
Opportunity was taken at the a man to be innocent until the gathering to make subscriptions for contrary is proved. I am glad to a Club for the Hindu silk mer- note that a movement is on foot chants. The subscription list was at Home in favour of its aboli. beaded by Mr. Narain Dialdas with tion. It will, of course, be $100 in the name of his firm and argued that a dock is essential $101 in memory of the deceased here owing to the large number wife of his local manager, Mr. F. Thawardas, whose death ooccurred of peculiar cases with which the about a year ago. local Courts have to deal- The Hindu merchants and their
Christopher pirate gangs etc. That may be friends are invited to attend a din- John Dodds, and mine's Marma- so, but is it necessary to bring ner to be given by Mr. and Mrs. duke the accused up from the cells Narain Dialdas this evening. The thwaithe."
visitors leave for Manila to-morrow below some 15/20 minutes before by the 8.8. President Taft" on the Court assembles, thereby sub- their way back to India. jecting him to the gaze of the crowd? I will go so far as to say that the scene in Court at 1.45 on Friday afternoon last was a dis- CONSUL'S PROTEST.
"JUSTICE" IN SHANGHAI COURT.
"Now, what's the matter?** asked the master. "Haven't you Anished yet ?"
"Please, sir, it isn't fair," ·
"His name is sobbed the boy.
Heppel
Schoolmaster: You mustn't say “I ain't going." You mug ay "I am not going. He is not gng. We are not going."
Tommy: Ain't nobody going?
The only man she knew who Jisped called her up on the tele- phone, and said: "Ith that you, Ruth? Well, guath who thith ith."
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grace to our system of judicial! procedure, Innocent or guilty, the position of accused personi must be unpleasant enough; the| public gaze naturally becomes The Italian Consular Deputy, focussed upon him throughout Dr. Ramendino, has entered on- the trial, and there can be no other protest at the Provisiona) |
The Scot (to Cockney who has earthly reason why he should be Court, Shanghai, this time in con- just trod on his toe): Hoots placed in the dock long before the nection with a case in which eight toots mon! Canna' ye look Court assembles a period during Chinese were charged' with having whaur y'r goin? Hoot, mon, toot. were the "power behind the which there is no judge (or, as on drearms in their possession, as The Cockney: 'Oot yer bloomin' throne" in Kwangtung. Subse. Friday last, other competent per-well as on six counts of armed self. I ain't no motor 'bus.
This was the case in quently, when he found that he son) to protect him from the robbery. could stand alone, or imagined of the busybodies of his village. charged with being concerned in abuse or demonstrative activities which a Chinese policeman attach-
led to Sinza Police Station
Yours, etc.,...
IONIDES.
Hong Kong, August 16, 1927.
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"Why did you stop singing in was the choir?"
In connection with this decision
protest:-
at
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"Heard about Thomson getting shot?"
"No! When?"!
"About ten minutes ago. I saw it."
that he could, he 'disavowed his
"Because one day I didn't sing, the armed robberies and was Communist advisers and friends
severely reprimanded by Judge Li and somebody asked if the organ,
had been fixed." and set up a Government of his
at the previous hearing for be- traying the trust imposed in him. own in Nanking, the sole object
"Mrs. Jones," said the annoyed Judge Li warned the man that he of which was to crush Commun H.K. VOLUNTEER COLOURS. would be dealt with more severely woman to her neighbour, "I make ism. Even then he was alterna-
than the other members of the no complaint about your Alf To the Editor of the "Chins Mail." gang, and he was as good as his copying my Percy's sums tively blowing hot and cold, his
Sir,The Hong Kong Volunteer word last week when he sentenced school, but I do think it's time public utterances being alike Defence Corps having been grant- the ex-constable to life imprison-to say something when your boy inconsistent and enigmatical. He ed its regimental colour, it has ment while the other members of starts 'itting my boy when the
answers ain't right.' was given a great opportunity to been thought that it would be a the gang received sentences rang-
fitting thing if the flag were pre-ing from six to nine years. prove his bona fides during the sented by the ladies of Hong and the case as a whole, Deputy negotiations for a pact between Kong.
The design, which has been Ramondino entered the following Nanking and the Northern Allies
drawn by Mr. H. W. Bird, is bas- "According to the agreement for with the object af taking united ed on the colour of the old Hong the rendition of the Mixed Court, action against the Hankow party. Kong Regiment, now in the Cathe-it is the duty of the Senior Con- For the failure of these negotia- drai, and the approximate cost sul's Deputy to watch the case and
will be $700.
record objections if he disagrees tions Chiang Kai-shek must take It is desired to raise this sum with the judgment given by the as much blame as anybody else. in subscriptions of from $1 to $5. Chinese judge. To be able to do Then the Hankow party wakened Any of the ladies whose names that the Deputy should sit during up and made an effort to purge appear below, will be glad to re- all the hearings of a case, includ-woman for better or for worse? ceive subscriptions, and I hope the Ing the hearing in which judgment that centre of Communism, thus
am mah fust wife. Ah don' women of Hong Kong, realising is given. .D. Rumjahn acknowledges with making it easier to talk of an what we owe to our Volunteers, "In this case three accused were prezackly know how to take 'eri thanks the many expressions of
Hankow and will enable us to collect the brought before the Court on sympathy by his friends in his
on May 2 when a remand was flies bothering her): bereavement and also thanks those Nanking against Chang Tso-lin, amount required before the 31st charge of possession of firearms,
of this month-Yours truly,
granted. During the period of re- who were kind enough to attend with the certainty of enlisting the
PENELOPE CLEMENTI.
mand five more accused have been was auntie! the funeral of his beloved wife.
Ladies collecting for the Colour arrested and six further chargea Little Boy: Why, dear? sent services of that notorious "sit-on- Mariam, and those who'
Little Girl: Well, father says preferred against them. wrenths.
the fencer," Feng Yu-hsiang, the Fund are:-
Mrs. Alabaster, 266, The Peak; "The case was tried on July 29 there ain't no flies on auntic! "Christian General," whose hate'
Lady Chow, 7, Excelsior Terrace; before the Japanese Deputy who Hong Kong, Monday, August 15, 1927, toward Chang Tso-lin has always Mrs. Cock, "Saltash," King's heard all the evidence relating to
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"Where?"
"Down at the ironmonger's. He bought about 2lb, of it."
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Minister: Do you take this
Nervous Darkie: Pahson, dis
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Little Girl (on hot day with.
I wish, I
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Burglar (to clumsy mate who Park, Kowloon; Mrs. Crawford, the aforementioned charges. The had fallen over a chair): That's 11, Carnarvon Buildings, Kow-hearing for judgment, by conge the idea, Bill! Deafen 'em, so In the situation that has now loon: Mrs. F. C. Hall, 507, The quence, had to be set before the they can't hear us! arisen it is not difficult to see the Peak; Mrs. Hynes, 355, The Peak; Japanese Deputy who was of
Jones: Can you tell me who hand of the "Christian General," Mrs. Ho Leung, 15, Kennedy only one who had knowledge who has been playing fast and Road; Mrs. Kotewall, 57, Conduit all the facts in the case.
"It has been set, on the contrary, was the richest man mentioned. Road; Mrs. Roffey, The Univer- loose-yesterday pro-Hankow and sity; Mrs. de Reza, 3, May Road; before me, and I am not able either in the Bible? China.
to-day pro-Nanking, but all the Mrs. Southern, 3, The Peak; Mrs. to agree or disagree with the judg- ment given to-day not knowing General Chiang Kai-shek, the time very much pro-Feng Yu-Templeton, "Cornhill," Quarry what evidence it is based upon.
hsiang. He has never been able Bay..
At last there is really some- thing new to comment on in regard to affairs in
so-called "idol" of the Southern! Nationalists, the war leader who was hailed by armchair strategists as the Chinese "Napo- leon," has betaken himself off the stage and himself drawn down the curtain. The "man of the
hour," who was to accomplish great and wonderful things for! China, has been proved to be but a man of a moment, as time is reckoned. All that he has accom-
plished in regard to and as the result of the Northern Expedition has gone into the melting pot. Truly are Chinese warfare and Chinese politics a veritable riddle which not even the Chinese leaders themselves can solve with any certainty of getting within a thousandth fraction of an inch of the solution.
It is of interest to note that one of the primary causes of Chiang Kal-shek's self-eclipse is the de- nunciation of him by General Tang Shen-chi, of Hankow, as "the mover of the Communist regime and the prime cause of the internecine strife which is rùin-
CHEUNG CHAU NOTÉS.
Smith: Solomon. Jones: Why?
Smith: Because he had a hun- dred wives.
"I therefore protest against this attempt to reduce the function of to take his eyes off Peking and
the Deputy to a pure act of pre-
Stout Lady (in crowded tram sence, to a simple formality, and car): Come, little boy; sit on my the elimination of Chang Tso-lin,
I affirm the principle that all the
lap. and he has worked in-
Youthful One (staring): Where The Conference meetings which hearings of the case in which a stdiously with only these
have been held from Aug. 7 con- deputy is entitled to sit, must be
is co lap? objects in view. More even cluded on Sunday night with a song set before the same Deputy." than Chiang Kai-shek can he be service and Thanksgiving.
held each
Dust lay thickly on the grand Two meetings were blamed for "the prolongation of morning. The devotional meeting
piano, completely spoiling its JUMPED OVERBOARD. usually shining surface. The the internecine warfare which is was in the hands of the Rev. P.
mistress called the maid and, Hinkey, whose addresses were time- ruining the country." As the ly and inspiring. Following this
While the Yaumati ferry launch after scolding her severely about į
"Christian General' once retired the Rev. J. Robb conducted a series Man King" was crossing the har her general slackness, pointed to
of Bible Study methods in which bour yesterday afternoon from the piano, and exclaimed-
Was manifested. Hong Kong to Yaumati, a 20-year- into. private life and then staged great interest
"And what have you. to say to a come-back, so can Chiang Kai- Meetings for children not originally old Chinese girl suddenly jumped
people in the
The midstream. shek, but it is to be feared that planned for were led by various overboard while the launch was in this?" And she wrote her name
A seaman. promptly in the dust. the latter cannot never again evening meetings were held at threw a life buoy to the girl, but "Well," gasped the maid in have the same opportunity of p.m. and all listened with attention she sank almost immediately. The feigned surprise, "ain't education
to the Rev. Geo. T. B. Davis' eloquent launch searched the vicinity for wonderfull" making good as the "saviour" of account of his experiences in vari- some time without result. Up to
the
the time of writing the body was China. He has failed to take the ous parts of the world with
Evangelists, Drs. Torry and Chup not yet recovered. tide at the turn and has himself man and the singer, Chas. 31. been almost ignominiously Alexander, and also of his work in China in connection with the Pocket swamped. Thus endeth one more Testament League. chapter in the history of China's civil wars. What the next will re- veal no man knoweth.
MCDONNELL ROAD THEFT:
THIEF ENTERS BY OPEN WINDOW,
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afternoon.
A part of the third floor verandah Arrangements are in hand for the Children's sports on Saturday next of No. 1G, Eastern Street collapsed and subscriptions have been col- at 1 p.m., yesterday. Luckily no lected for the sports prizea and the one was injured but several pedes- The trians had narrow escapes from the expenses of the conference. visitors who came over for the falling debrio. meetings are now returning to Hong Kong and Canton.
conduct Mr Davis hopes to special meetings on his return for Soldiers and Sallors in Hong Kong,
awk
"RAIN LATER.”
Mrs. A. G. Lane, living at. No. 16 |ing the country." Certainly the McDonnell Road has reported the launching of the Northern Ex-theft from her room some time bo- tween midnight or Saturday and pedition was made possible in the 7.80 yesterday morning, of a gold "North west winds, freshened at first place by Communist aid in wrist watch an expanding gold first, rain later," is the official weas the shape of money and munitions bracelet and $148, in money. The ther forecast until noon to mororw.
thief entered by a window which A typhoon has formed to at a time when Borodin and Co. was left open during the night. south west of Guam.
the
WILL RELIEVE MOTHER'S FEARS.
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Mr. Jinks: I was born before there were ever such people with
nerves,
Mr. Binks. Is that so? Mr. Jinks: Yes, these fussy people who get nervous break- downs, they get on my nerves.
Johnny was told to go to the grocer's for his mother. On reaching the shop the grocer ask. ed Johnny what he wanted.
""'Arfa pound of present- Indicative active," said Johnny.
"What?" Inquired the astonish-
A panic of fear soisen mother whened grocer. sudden and severe cramps, agonizing Alf a pound of present-in- Intestinal pains and weakening dia dicative active, replied Johnny, rhoea. prostrate come one of the
family. Keep Chamberlain's Colic "The teacher told us that the and Diarrhoea Remedy in the home present-indicative active was neither fear nor alarm. It cases painam, and Mum wants almost Instantly Sold everywhere. pound of it."
and such emergencies need cause
alfa