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"NORMAL", AT WU-HAN
Hankow, Yesterday. The three dismissed members The determination with which of the Wu-Han branch of the
[By James One]
that something more useful than bare wails were constructed on the site of the Hong Kong Hotel are, and the plans have already been favourably commented upon in this column, But even build- ings in process of demolition-are an eyesore, as witness, too, the building at the corner of Queen's Road Central and Ice House Street, formerly occupied by the the American Senate passed the Political Council have replied Hong Kong Electric Company, en Fill for the construction of fif- mildly to Marshal Chiang Kai- the site of which is to be erected teen new heavy cruisers within a shek's telegram, expressing will- a new building for the National month of the ratification of the ingness to abide by the decisions City Bank of New York. There Pact for the Renunciation of War of the Central Government, is so much dermolition work being has caused a good deal of doubt acknowledging their fault in the done in the centre of the city concerning the sincerity of Hanan issue, and definitely re that a stranger might well be par America's adherence to the Pact cording that they are all lovers of Critica of the Kellogg Fact have peace and loyal supporters of the doned for imagining that the Col- ony had been hit by a typhoon.
been many. It is repeated, wide Nationalist Party.
Two Strangers
*
• *
ly and with apparent sincerity,
The vernacular papers also have
On the same day that the Fact is a mare form of completely changed their tune yesterday-two words, which any nation will and at present are lauding alike. distinguished twist to its own advantage when Wu-Han and Nanking.
an international dispute
The dismissala are regarded as
*
not.
Canton's Support
Nanking, Yesterday". The arrival of Marshal Li Chal- sum on March 18 has largely dis- sipated disquieting rumours of posible war and the very tense
Yesterday afternoon, in a Prese
strangers were in ever our midst and were duly enter arises. It is undeniable that the purely a compromise, since it is tained by different sections of the Pact as it stands is open to every felt those dismissed will occupy community. The members of the sort of manipulation, although for similar positions, whatever organ- Sind Hindu Merchants' Club are the bulk of the world it is so isation roplaces the Provincial to be commended for acting as the strengthened and supplemented Governments
All warlike netivities have ceas- hosts to the great Indian poet and by the Covenant of the League of philosopher, Sir Rabindranath Nations that the two together ed, and the situation is rapidly be- Tagore. The welcome in the little form a net through which the in- coming normal.
Pan Yib-chi, Mayor of Wu-Han, Club in China Building and the ternational evil-doer will find it little souvenir of a purse must difficult to slip. The United's going to Nanking to-day as I have been very cheering to the States, however, is not bound by special envoy to cement the new veteran poet as a kind of hearten- the Covenant, and it is principally established peaceful relation ing milestone on his long journey ly on the attitude of this great ships. to Canada. And so with those the Pact is to be a mere form or nation that it will depend whether the Returned Students' Associa- tion-who arranged the welcome
In this connection it is most en to and the address by Dr. J. R. Mott, the famous Y.M.C.A. work-couraging to note unmistakable er. It is good that the community determined to make the Pact & situation which, it is now general- signs that opinion in the States is should so honour, such notable reality. It has been often point ly admitted, existed at the time visitors. In due course, when weed out that while the Pact lays he arrived in Shanghai from Hong have a Municipal Council, visitors of the calibre and standing of the down that the settlement of all Kong Indian poet and the Y.M.CA. disputes shall never be sought ex- worker may anticipate a civic wel- cept by pacific means it makes interview, Marshal Li emphatical come, with the Mayor in the chair. Provision for the machinery of ly declared that his policy and al- settlement. It thus requires to ways been to support the Nation- be supplemented by treaties of al Government The outburst at arbitration, and this is an urgent peace at any cost. In this con- and maintain Commercial the General matter, since difficulties and disnection he pointed out that imme-
Morailty
Chamber of Com-putes are bound to arise, and can diately after his arrival in Shang- that "the whole incident is deplor-
merce annual not be left to drag on without hai he made a statement un- able" and that "there must be meeting on the subject of com- any solution. Mr. Kellogg's state equivocally on the Hunan issue. something radically wrong with a mercial morality ought to do an meat of January 24 is thus of ex- The matter was entirely for the Overland China Mail. system which makes such mis immense amount of good. Both traordinary interest, that another National Government to decide
understanding' possible." It is the Chairman of the Chamber attempt will be made to hasten and settle, not sufficient to say as it prob- and the Chairman of the Exports negotiations for the conclusion of He and other old members of ably will be that steps have Sub-Committee may be said to a new arbitration treaty with the Kuomintang without delay been taken to prevent any recur- have scored points in favour of Great Britain. A draft had been went to Nanking and held a con- rence of such a muddle. The their respective cases. An inves forwarded to London more than a ference with Marshal Chiang Kai- subject must be probed into as tigation has been promised and year ago, sald Mr. Keñlogy, but chek for a settlement of the fully as possible. It should have in itself that is good. Other the British Government had not Hunan case, while both the civil been the easiest thing in the world countries have lost trade and yet signified either its approval or and militarr Isaders from Canton to have notified the Press if there prestige through the delivery of its rejection,
have come to Nanking to attend had been any hitch regarding the inferior goods and through faulty
Matter of Urgency
the Congress, which action cannot isaue of the burial permit. It packing in the past, and their ex- The matter is one of consider-be interpreted "excent as denot- would have been just as easy to perience has been that once able urgency, and it is important ing support of the National Gov- circularise the various Cluba and trade is thus lost it is most dif- that the British Government crnment... institutions regarding the defer-ficult to recapture. The trade of should lose no time in concluding
Good: Falth ment of the funeral. Telephones this Colony has been bad enough a comprehensive arbitration are not always out of order why in all conscience since the dark treaty with the United States Canton branch of the Political was recourse not had to the tele-days of 1925 and 1926 without the The model treaties prepared by Council had suspended its sit- phone so as the public could have position being made more precari the League of Nations have taken tings and was now awaiting or heen informed of the exact arous, if not jeopardised, by any from the shoulders of diplomacy ders from the Central Govern rangements, original and amend thing savouring of malpractices. the burden of preparing special ment to close down, and the Dis ed? Even so, this suggests that Let our exporters keep their own instruments, and it should not be bandment Conference's decisions the Press on their part overlooked house clean at all costs; and they difficult to select from
among were being carried ont in Canton the necessity of keeping in will find in the long run that these one perfectly suiting the in good faith; also the National touch with the Police and the honesty and integrity are indis- requirements of both nations.
Government's special Financial Hong Kong, Saturday, Mar. 16, 1929. authorities at the Government pensable handmaidens in the
There is, of course, one particu-Commissioner in Canton had al- Civil Hospital and publishing world of commerce. As murder lar point at issue between our-ready assumed office, and Canton what they might have been off will out, so will "tricks of the selves and the States: the ques- was obeying the order that the cially told of the arrangements trade" that are resorted to for tion of the freedom of the seas administration of rational taxes for the funeral.
the sake of quick profits at the This is a problem that can only shall be centralised in the Nation- other fellow's exponge.
be solved by recodifying and real Governmentation As usual in the
stating maritime law, and in this mothe connection attention may be. It is reliably reported that Gen-
Tientsin, Yesterday. Await the case of a disaster
Little reading and much think-drawn to Senator Borah's importeral Pet Chung-hat of the Kwang- Verdict the papers have
ing, little speaking and much ant proposal in the Senate that, anal Party is at present at Tang- been full of criti-hearing, is the best way to be this question before the expira and ene armoured train-Reuter. agreement should be reached on shen, with about 80.000 troops cisms of conditions at the King wise. Jonson. Edward Hotel in respect of live-
tion of the Washington arrange
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First place in Unhonoured this column must and be given not to Unsung the great fire at the King Edward Hotel, but to the expostire by, the "Daily Prese" of the muddle in
Nine years ago to-day the saving and fire extinguishing ap- Peace. Celebration's Executive regard to the burial of one of the pliances. But the fact that a for: Committee decided on erection of fire victims Mr. Paul Baille. mal inquiry was inevitable-it Everybody who read Thursday's has already commenced ought Cenotaph in Status Square.
to have restrained the critics. issue of our contemporary cer- All must deplore the calamity, but
Nineteen years ago to-day the tainly received a rude shock when let reason and rudence prevail in foundation, stone of the fong they were informed that the speaking of the Internal condi. Kong University was laid by the Governor, Sir F. D. (now Lord) burial had taken place without a tons at the hotel and the pugard.
pliances at the disposal of the Fire single foreigner, not even a priest, Brigade. Criticisms in advance of being present. It seemed incredi-
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ments for the limitation of naval armaments in 1931
The amendment in the Ameri
Marshal Li also said that the
PITY THE POOR SUFFERING
MOSQUITOES
can Cruiser Bill instructing the TIS.A. Administration to nego Powers concerning rentral and tiate an agreement with other
Complaints are again being belligerent rights at sen may lead made by our correspondent at the to a welcome clearing of the air. Front of the contamination of the Possibly neither ourselves nor sea along parts of the Taipo const the United States would be will by ofl from ships.. He writes :- ing to include the subject of "The shores of Tolo Harbour the conclusion of the official in lasia and China Telegraph Co., tration treaty; but, if a reserva- with dozens of beautiful mosqui The Eastern Extension Austra maritime law in a general arblares sorrowful sight just now, ble that the community, collec- quiry cannot but do harm-cer tively and individually, should tainly they can do no good. If Ltd., announce that normal work, tion is made, it is important that toes dying and dead-stranded or ing with Shanghai, and beyond, this should only be to the effect the rocks until they die of starva- people will write to the have been so grossly lax in its papers, and if the papers has been re-established.
that both parties agree to accept tion or are killed by sea-lions. duty to, a stranger within our themselves will air their own The name of the Kwong Shun the findings of a special commis Parties of boys scared up by the gates who lost his life under such selves to generalities in regard to the register of companies. The to settle once and for all this dif-poor things out of their misery. to Animals 8.8. Co., Ltd., has been struck off ion or conference, which should Humane Society
meet at the earliest possible date spend their afternoon putting the harrowing conditions. Even the the prevention of fires in other Press was blamed for dereliction hotels and buble buildings and in name of the Leyesco China Co. ficult but vital problem.
Ltd., will be struck off in three of duty in not informing the regard to the fighting appare months unless cause to the co-
public as to the date and the hour of the funeral.
Yesterday's issue of Who is to the "Dally.Press"
Blame? did say
some-
views," why not confine them-
tus that every modern Fire
trary is shown.*50!
Brigade in an up-to-date Colony ought to have?) There may be "Electric-street" is the new. plenty of scope for comment on the King Edward Hotel fire when name given to the street running. the enquiry has been completed from Star-street parallel to Wing in a south-westerly direction and the jury return their verdict
Kung-street, through and to the and their recommendations, if
south westboundary, of . Inland Lot No. 2,887, at Wanchai.
thing to take away any that sense of shame from which most of us were suffering, On Tuesday and again on Wednesday
A preat went down to the Cemetery only to find nobody #there--not even the
men simply an open: coffin. The undertakes
we quote our con
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Billy Dean, the popular Lanca shira comedian, and his partner Topsy Lee, London's miniature Soph ing and 1
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The cause of this suffering is the oil floating on the sea. The mos- quitoes get into a patch, their wings and feathers are stuck, and, unable to rise, they drift helpless- ly until washed on, to the rocks. Our correspondont adds that a fow days ago, be found a beauty being worried by a dog, and took the Street Angel, featuring Janet cashed thing home and cleaned it. Gaynor and Charles Farrell, stars with turpentine. As it still in 7th Heaven,
ma în seems unable to do more response to an insistent demand than waddle about It is In the Anopheles on the part of cinema Lans that
Home convalescing.. those two popular stare be seen
„dey..it meditates on ge heap and at night, straw-filled basket In yaz'daily, swim. the Round with its
Ny Miss. Gaynor has the part of h hea young Italian girl who, in despera itama. tion; attempts to stealin orde
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travelling show.
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