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BIRTHS.
DIETRICH-On August 16, 1927, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. K. Dietrich, a daughter.
HERDMAN. On August 18, 1927, at the Country Hospital, Shang- hal, to Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Herdman, a son.
'a aon.
Home, Colombo, to Mr. and
Hong Kong, Friday, August 26, 1927.
FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1927:
WRECKED GARAGE! ·
P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
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Kong and Canton the merchants CORRESPONDENCE. in Canton must suffer equally The with those in Hong Kong. Chinese merchants in this Colony and Canton ought to be influential
(To the Editor of the “China Mail"] enough to break down any com- Sir,It has come to our mercial barriers erected by either knowledge that statements are the militarists or the labour ex-being made to the effect that the
The aviation industry should Kowloon premises of the Hong be easy to knock sky-high. tremists. Here is a common Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Co., meeting ground for the merchants Ltd., which collapsed during last
She was cooking the first din- of both centres to explore every Saturday's typhoon, were con-
structed by, or under the super-ner in their new home. Cookery possible avenue for the promotion vision of, the Hong Kong En- book in hand, she rushed out into and extension of trade. And as gineering and Construction Co., the garden to her husband:
"Oh, Jim," she cried, "what- It is with the Chinese, here, so it Ltd.: Is with the foreigners. The lat- As such statements are likely ever shall I do? The pie is burn- to be detrimental to this Coming and I musn't take it out for ter have no grudge against pany I am instructed to state another ten minutes." Canton in any shape or form. publicly that we had no connec
Teacher--"What do you under They may regret developmentation whatever with the design or not of their own creation that construction of the premises in stand by the word 'deficit,"
question.
John?" stop or impede trade, but they are The facts of the case are, I John "It's what you've got always willing to take advantage believe, that the premises were when you haven't as much as you of the alightest opening that built by a firm of contractors had when you had nothing?" arises for the restoration of trade, which had a brief existence in
1924 under the name of the I am too small to get into the With whatever form of Govern- "South China Construction Com-cinema. ment may be in power in Canton pany,"
I am not large enough to buy a In view of our persistent necktie. they can express no opinions al-
efforts to maintain a high stan- I am of amall consideration in ways provided that that Govern- dard of materials and workman- the purchase of gasoline. ment is able to be master in its ship it is extremely annoying to own house and to preserve peace learn that such imputations are and order, and to make condi- being made, and I trust you will tions possible for amicable trad-give publicity to this disclaimer.
I am, Sir, ing. Domestic politics in Canton
Yours, etc., do not concern the foreigners in
(Sd.) S. COURTNEY COOK, this Colony save where they act
Secretary, as a deterrent to legitimate trad-
Hong Kong Engineering ing, free from illegal exactions and unjustifiable imposts that in-| evitably throttle trade. Given a restoration of the conditions in Canton that existed before June, 1925, every suggestion or in- sinuation of feeling between Hong Kong and Canton would auto- matically vanish. This Colony is most anxious to trade peaceably with Canton. It is for the Can-
Construction Company. Hong Kong, August 25, 1925.
MR. R. PARKER,
ENGINEER OF THE SS. "LUNGSHAN.".
SUDDEN END YESTERDAY.
I am not fit to be a tip. But belleve me, when go to church, L. am Some Money.
What am I? A threepenny
bit, of course.
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There is no limit to the Ingenuity of the small boy în search of cigarette cards, writes a newspaper correspondent,
I went to a slot machine the other day for cigarettes. The machine was one of the exacting kind which takes nothing but the thickest coins. My sixpence, slightly worn, was rejected. I had no more sixpences, and so I turned away to find a less seru- pulous apparatus.
Then I heard a voice at my elbow, "Try this one, sir." 'It was a small boy holding out a which took place suddenly yes- changed, and this time the ma- We regret to record the death, bright new sixpence. We ex- In a well-reasoned article in the tonese authorities themselves to terday evening, of Mr. "Bobbie" chine delivered the goods. Then "North China Daily News" Mr. create the conditions for such, Parker, 2nd Engineer of the 3.5. from the boy came the demand,
"Lungshan" (Canton and Macao "Any cigarette cards, sir?" If they do that, they may be Steamboat Company). assured that real commercial amity will follow to the mutual benefit of Canton and Hong Kong.
George E. Sokolsky, who knows his China much better than the
average writer in that country points out to the Kuomintang its obvious duty to the people at the present juncture: Advice, how- ever, is always easy to give, but those to whom it is tendered are
in
were
Doctors Must Tell.
The
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Mr. Parker, who had been In was at the time of his death visit never seen golf played before. indifferent health for some time, The two Irish tramps had Ing the home of Mr. Hanlon (of They stood watching a fat, un- the Dairy Farm) at East Point. skilful player at work in a His death took place as he and his bunker. The sand flew up, but host were engaged in conversation the ball remained. Seven agon- after dinner.
for one month only.
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The decensed, who was a keen member of the Freemasons and
An ambitious youth came from well known at the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, is the Highlands in order to join survived by a wife and two young the police. He passed the usual children all of whom proceeded to examination, and was then inter Freemantle, Australia, a short time viewed, age; having arrived there only two days ago.
The funeral takes place this evening.
BOMB THREATS.
FRENCH LEGATION IN BANG- KOK UNDISTURBED.
"Well, young man," said an officer, "you look like a promising young fellow. You have a good general knowledge, I hope? Can you tell me how many miles it is from Edinburgh to Glasgow ?"
The potential policeman be- came alarmed.
Mr. Parker had seen several ising shots had been played. The The oft-asked question, "should
years service in the Far East. Be- player stopped for breath, and usually purblind to their own in-a doctor tell?" no longer has any fore coming to Hong Kong a few then made his eighth attempt. terests and pursue their own significance, it seems; for accord-years ago he had been chief en- The ball was lobbed up, dropped gineer of a rice mill in Saigon. He on the green, and rolling gently course heedless of the wisest outing to a ruling by Mr. Justice had been in the service of the to the pin, settled in the hole. side counsels. Mr. Sokolsky gets McCardy at the Birmingham Steamboat Company for two years "Ba gum, Bill" said one of the a real home-thrust when he Assizes, a doctor simply must and had served in the "Lungshan" tramps to the other, "he's got a
devil of a job on now." states that foreign antagonism divulge whatever he is asked to would be removed in a day if there divulge when in a court of law. peace and, order and By this decision medical know
in
ledge regarding a patient is no good business the pro-
longer personal and secret to the vinces, Foreigners care -no-
practitioner. As a matter of thing about Chinese politics, except academically. The Chin fact, it never was, but it has ese err when they think that the always been considered that such foreigners in China are their information held by members of enemies, that the foreigners are the medical profession was not opposed to nationalism and to the expected to be divulged to anyone, rise of the Chinese people to not even a Judge or an examining
"Look here, sir," he blurted equality. There may be some un- counsel. The case in which this
out, "if you are going to put me important individuals whose fallacy was exploded was typical
on a beat of that length I'd Threats to blow up the French rather return to the croft and HIGGS-On August 19, 1927, at petty interests would suffer if of many that come before the
the Country Hospital, Shang- China were able to achieve a re-|
courts. It was an action for Legation in Bangkok sent through help father with the sheep."
the mails by a dissatisfied owner of hai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. vision of treaties and an equal divorce, and a doctor in charge a Tonkin lottery ticket are causing Higgs, aeon.
Mother had sent Uncle Peter a box of cigars on his birthday, HOLT-On August 16, 1927, at the position in the world. But the im- of one of the departments of the no concern to the consul orig
Victoria Nursing Home, Shang-portant foreigners and surely Birmingham General Hospital Charge d'Affaires.
In spite of the fact that three and as he had not mentioned the haf, to Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Holt, their Governments stand squarely was subpoenaed to give evidence postcards signed "Lawyer" have fact that he had received them, behind Sir Austen Chamberlain's relative to a certain medical fact declared that the bombs are ready far less thanking her for the STAVELEY-GORDON-On August Christmas Day Note which seems regarding the respondent.
and will be used unless the num-present, she casually inquired of bers are announced, no police prohim how he liked the cigara. 17, 1927, at the Fraser Nursing to have been forgotten in the doctor protested against being tection has been sought.
Then, to her amazement, he M. Chalant, the Consul, said to- told her he had never received Mrs. C. Staveley-Gordon, a son. welter of misfortune since it was called on the ground that he had
day that he believed that the writer them, so she tackled her boy, enunciated. If the Kuomintang nothing to do with the case and would make no attempt to carry out Tommy, as to whether he had can achieve peace and order and was not head of the department his threat and that the matter is lawful living, if it can provide any in 1924, when, it was stated, the being regarded more in the nature
"Oh, yes, mother," Tommy of a practical joke.
Legation officials believe that the reassured her. "The parcel was part of China with good Govern- respondent was a patient.
too big to go in the letter-box, s0 Hospital, Causeway Bay, early ment, the general willingness to number of doctors, he said, were writer of the cards is crazed.
The cards are still in the Lega- | I put the cigars in one at a time." this morning, following a brief be friends with it, which was so engaged in the work, each of tion and as far as could be ascer iliness, the Rev. Bro. Gadilonien evident last December, will again whom had his own papers, which tained the police will take no action
The Young Man (bitterly) (better known as Brother Joseph) of St. Joseph's College, 1.
be evident. But it is up to the were his own personal property; unless notified by the Legation.
and he pointed out that he had no
At the Posts and Telegraph De- "Why did you flirt with me? aged 74 years. The funeral Kuomintang. The Party must authority to produce other doc-conducted to find where the cards motoring and golfing and rowing partment an investigation is being Why did you let me take you will pass the Monument this show vitality. It must inspire the tor's papers. The Judge, whilst were posted and an effort will be every day? Why did you en evening, at 5.15. ·
Chinese people with confidence be-recognizing that the witness was made to try to trace the sender. courage me, when you were al- PARKER-Suddenly in Hong Kong
Last night Legation officials slept ready engaged?" on August 25, Broughton fore it can hope to win the good-acting out of loyalty to his pro-
The Girl (sighing): "I wanted Parker, aged 42. 2nd Engineer, will of foreigners. If the Kuo-fession, reminded him that there soundly and were not in the least Hong Kong, Canton & Macao
was no privilege in that court and bit surprised to find the Legation to test my love for George." Steamboat Co., Ltd. Funeral mintang fails to do these now, that he was bound to produce the intact this morning, says the "Bang- passes the Monument at 5 p.m. there may not soon be another op- documents and information. "I kok Daily Mail" of July 28,
portunity,
you do not," he added, "every medical man, including a number Nearer home than Shanghai the of officials from the General Hos 16, 1927, David Aikman, age 38, ex Chief Engineer, a.a. truth of these observations has pital, must be called here
Little Girl (to baby brother, "Hanyang." China Navigation been demonstrated .time and I shall enforce the law and send
who is crying) You've got to go Co., Ltd.
again. There is no quarrel and no to prison the doctor who refuses LARSEN On Wednesday, August
to obey the order of the court." The new "Our Cabaret" company home, and if you don't stop crying 17, 1927, at St. Marie Hospital, enmity on the part of Hong Kong There we have a definite legal pro- had a very successful opening at the Alf will go and drown hisself- Shanghai, Jacob Martins Lar- toward Canton. All that this nouncement on the matter, and Theatre Royal yesterday evening won't yer Alf? Ben, aged 41 years. De
Colony wants is peace and order one against which, evidently, and in the course of their pro- the one-act there is no remedy. It is an im comedy The Disorderly Room," &
gramme: presented PARSONS On August 6, 1927, In and good business in Kwangtung portant point, and now that the well-known war-time success in
London, Louise, wife of Capt. The rest will take care of itself, law has opened its mind regarding which Billy Bray appeared at Capt. THEIR SECOND SUMMER THE S. J. G. Parsons," late of the NY.K., and R.N.R., and mother The Chinese in this Colony are it, we may reasonably expect de Merryweather and Charles Mason
HARDEST of Mr. J. Parsons, of the Salt Cantonese They have the same the imposition of a kind of cus- sketch was distinctly fanson enter their second summer a trying time
velopments, such as, for instance, as Sergt. Major Pullthrough. The Gabelle.
trade interests as their com todianship upon the personal case In addition Charles Mason enter ROBERTSON-On August 18, patriots in Canton. They desire papers of medical men, seeing that tained with his peculiar type of for little ones. Summer disorder of Some snappy and pretty dancing suffering relieved by Chamberlain's Shanghai, Willlim Bruce to conduct that trade with Can- these records may in law be call-umour and Vivienne girls gave cholers may be bowe and, infantile BARUNCHITONEAKTIRATANTIZZARENE ed for and it is the usual practice displays. The Company clases at Calle and Diarrhoen: Remedy Easy Robertson: beloved son of Mr. ton. It is not sufficient to say of practitioners to have them the Theatre Royal on Saturday to take in a little sweetened water and Mrs. W. B. Robertson, ared that in any dispute between Hong destroyed at their decease. night. three yearsjet
Always reliavos, For sale everywhery.
DEATHS.
· GADILONIEN.-AŁ the French
to-day. AIKMAN--On Tuesday, August
1927, at the General - Hospital;
A
“OUR CABARET.”
SUCCESSFUL OPENING AT THEATRE ROYAL:
really posted the parcel.
Worth while Performances: Confurer getting hats out of a rabbit.
Teething and hot weather make
and
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