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FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929.
find a method of government that FENG YU-HSIANG 'will satisfy proper national pride|
More serious perhaps than the threat of Mr. Ghandi's personal
and maintain the efficiency of the government of India, the Simon,
IS HE GIVING UP OR WILL HE FIGHT?
P'RAPS
---
Commission are facing an im-SAYS "MEET YOU IN BERLIN" mense and complex problem per- haps not at the moment capable of
P'RAPS NOT!
Grocer to Aberdonian: "I notice empty bottles." ye never return the corks wi' yer
Aberdonian: "That's so." I aye steep the cocks in water!"
a tumbler 0
Shanghai, Yesterday. General Feng Yu-hulang seems to a solution, certainly not of one be willing to give up strife with that will at once heal India's Nanking, as he is alleged to have fevers. Which is all the more rea-wired to General Yen Hsi-shan, stating that he will leave for Ger- son for publicists in this part of many by way of Siberia. He also the Orient being on their guard intimated in the telegram that he against the "greed" of the Com- expects to meet Yen Hsi-shan in along the French country road in a
muniste in China for news of sedi-Berlin-Nan Chang tion in India and elsewhere.
Service.
Kuo News
Nanking to Attack
Shanghai, Yesterday.. A message from Nanking says
As the powerful motorcar dashed
smother of dust and fumes, the owner leant towards the chauffeur and yelled out: "Where are we now "
"Just running into Paris, sir" A new comedy film, "Prep And the leading military personages reared back the man at the wheel. Pep," will be screened
conferred last night and decided at the
The owner of the car shook his Queen's Theatre on Sunday and
in the event of an expedition head irritably.
"Oh, don't bother Monday in place of "The Battles of against Feng Yu-hsiang being about details," he shouted back, "I Verdun" which will be shown at a will participate, commanded res-
launched. that five route armies mean, what country "" later date.
pectively by Tang Seng-chi, A Chinese named Li Yau-ken hus,
Fong Chen-wu, Liu Chen- He was taking her for a trip (20), living at No. 121, Wusung-Fu-chu;
Yen Hsi-chan and Han down the Thames. As they circled While Ho Ying-ching round the old lightship which helps street, Yaumati, first floor, was yes will probably be appointed Con- to guard the month of the river, terday admitted to the Kivong Wah Hospital suffering from the effects
she became excited: of an overdose of sleeping draught.
PLEASE DON'T WASTE WATER
A Chinese theatre, which will have sitting accommodation for 2,000 persons, is now under con- struction at the corner of Nathan and Prince Edward-roads, Mongkok, The site is owned by Sir Robert
Ho Tung, and it is estimated that the building will cost approximaely | $200,000.
mander-in-Chief.
Tungkwan will be the objective. -Renter.
Then Feng Defends
Shanghai, To-day. Feng Yu-hsiang (the "Christian General'), in spite of reports hav- ing been circulated that he will be forced to resign in the near future, is putting up strong de- fences at Tungkwan,. Tze-chin- kwan and other strategic points
the on
Shensi border.---Nan Chung Kue News Service,
Chang Chips In
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TROUBLED INDIA
"Where are we going to now, Tom?" she cried.
"We're going round the Nore, my dear," said Tom, as he pointed to the venerable lightship.
"Oh, really, Tom!" she said, in unbounded surprise. "I've heard of 'im. And is that 'is ark ?"
Goldstein looked downcast when
the
accosted by his friend, Goldberg. "Goldy," he began, I'm vorld's unluckiest man."
"You're not," contradicted, the the diamond ring and your fat other, "Look at the diamond pin, balance at the bank."
"But" and Goldstein heaved a sigh, "To-day I vos in one of the stores and the lights vent out."
"Vell, there's nothing unlucky in
"Yes there vos," persisted the other... "I os in the piano de- partment?"
that."
•
Panting and breathing heavily, a little boy was pushing a handcart,. obviously much too heavy for him up a steep hill,
A kindly passer
Shanghai, Yesterday. A report reaching here from Peking states that, in view of the inevitable conflict between Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang, Gen- eral Chang Hsueh-liang, the leader and made contact with this
Chan Ah-fan (22), a married in Manchuria, has decided to ignorant, poor, and excitable mul-woman living on the first floor despatch five regiments to districts No. 282, Reclamation-street, Yauma-around Peking-Nan Chung Kuo titude.
ti, attempted suicide yesterday after News Service, neon by jumping into the harbour, from the Yaumati ferry launch
midstream. She was rescued by the ment" which is sweeping. across crew, and on arrival at Yaumati the India. The leader of this, strange-Police removed her to the Kwong ly enough, is Mr. Jawhar Lal Wah Hospital. Nebru, the son of the leader of
The two Chinese charged with the BOXER INDEMNITY FUNDS ? the Congress Party, Mr. Motilal unlawful detention of a sing-song Nebru. Whereas the author of girl in a cubicle in a boarding
boy. Shanghai, Yesterday. made another appearance The preliminary meeting of the the Nebru report is content with house,
the Central
session of Magistracy, second plenary Dominion status, his son and his yesterday afternoon. After evidence Central Executive Committee of the following demand full indepen-had been taken from the girl Kuomintang has decided to open dence. There is a good deal of bearing out the prosecution's open the regular session on June 15.
Mr. Sun Fo.. one of the members ing statement, already published in idealism behind this movement the "China Mail," the further of the Central Executive Committee, which is sweeping through univer-hearing of the case was adjourned is prepared to propose to the seg- sities and high schools. These until Monday morning.
sion that a sum of $150,000,000 be put aside from the returned Boxer. Indemnity Funds of the British and
[ young men are impatient social re-
formers, living to cut out the an-
at
RAILWAY TO HANKOW CAN BE COMPLETED
the
by put his shoulder to the wheel, and helped him. When they got to the top of the hill he turned to the
child like you a job like this.
"I call it an outrage to give a Why too heavy for you?" didn't you tell your employer it was
"I did," was the reply. "And what did he say ?"
"He said: 'Go ahead-you're sure to find some fool to give you a lift on the way!'"
Teacher: How many bones have
cient cankers in Indian life, and CORRESPONDENCE. Russian portions for the purpose of you in your body?
complaining that the British Raj moves too slowly and timidly held back by its policy of religious neutrality from adopting a "short way" with the prejudices of the conservative folk.
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completing the construction of the Tommy: Two hundred and eight, Canton-Hankow and Lang-Hai Teacher: No, you have only two Railways. According to the plans hundred and seven.
io the Editor of the "China Mail" undertaking can be completed with-ed one at breakfast this morning.
of the Railways Ministry, this Tommy: Please, miss, I swallow.
Sir, With
"Victim's letter which appeared able. Nan Chang Kuo News Ser reference to in four years if funds are avail-
Isir
of 31 conspirators serve as alates because they were not repre- irritating complaint but I can pass
vice.
INCREASE IN MOTORS
TRANSPORT MINISTRY'S
PROBLEM
•
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in one of your contemporaries of
"You remember that you sold me the 13th inst, I wish to extend to
a horse last week?" said the cab- The saddest feature of Indian from that uncomfortable and an- him my sympathy in his suffering
man angrily to the horse dealer.
"Yes; what about him ?" To-day's and yesterday's cables political life at present is the noying skin trouble "Prickly Heat." from Meerut regarding the trial "sulking" of the Indian Moder. Salt water has the tendency to give
"He fell dead yesterday." "Well, I never!" said the dealer, complexioned people this
1 tl you he had some funny reminder that in this part of the sented on the Simon Commission, on to him a
little ways, but upon my word I world there is often too great a which is a Select Committee of against this affliction and thorough- cure and preventative
never knew him to do that before." tendency to give undue pro- the British House of Commonsly recommend the use of “Asepso"
Those who really knew the history of modern transportation would. Soap.
The speaker in
the park was This soap contains 3 per seditionist | Many of them are able adminis-\cent. Binodide and is at the samel agree that during the last three or very eloquent, he was impassioned moment in India. It is difficult to rators who have done good work time a genuine antiseptic toilet soap port had done its best, and all that embellished his arguments with. four years the Ministry of Trans- and intellectual and continually say what is hoped to be gained by for India, but some of them are which will sootas and cure all had been expected of it, to assist polysyllable words. pandering to the Communists' so wounded in their national pride annoying skin troubles. It should road transportation in this country, his speech with a fine burst of He wound up greed for news respecting up that they are ready to co-operate washing and to advantage, after Minister of Transport, at the open-
gald Colonel Wilfrid Ashley, M.P., thetoric, in which he used the word heavals in-troubled India. There with Gandhi,
lathering the afflicted parts of the
"syllogism." car-body, if time is given for the soap Denman street, London.
ing of the Piccadilly-circus Garage,
In the pause which followed an short period rinsed off with clean solve was extremely difficult and to dry on the skin, and after a very
inquiring voice, eagerly asked: The problem the Ministry had to "Who's the jockey, guv'nor ?" cold water.
minence
to
the
In
and
be used on all occasions when
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I have had no trouble in pro- because it was almost impossible a football match in which he had complex, Colonel Ashley continued, Tommy had just returned from curing this soap and understand it for any Government Department to been playing for his school la stocked by all pharmacies and keep abreast of the increase in the departmental store
number of care.
I hope to hear that at no distant
By immense expenditure the local
Well,
saïd the father, "and how did you get on, Tommy? Did
a pou get "Yes, dad. We scored three goals
are enemies of law and order, Meantime the British Raj ries on its enormous work. "anti-everything decent," as one Reuter cable aptly described them, dian industry makes great and only too near this Colony and rapid progres, Fifty million these, we may be sure, are ever acres have been irrigated, alert for intelligence from India works in hand will add of a sort that they can twist and another ten million acres. turn and raisrepresent amongst Scientific research the people whom they regard as ing applied to agriculture and fair trial, as a noso of this nature, accelerated, but the basis of sound and four casualties; the others only
is be date "Victim" has given this soap improvement of our roads could be you win'? likely to be easily influenced by forestry, and local administrators derived, should be widely k business, whether municipal or got one goal and two casualties."
Wage from which benefts are to be Bolshevist propaganda
Apart from India's genuine with village ignorance and conser. Heat and other skin troubles, and it was crazy finance to spend money - wage a perpetual kindly struggle amongst sufferers from Prickly national, was to see that you got a good return for your money. It
Lábtle Doris had begun to learn grievances, which it would be idle vatism. The mining of gold, salt, is a matter of amazement to me of which a half or a third was natural history, and the teacher to deny, and apart from the pernitin, wolfram, zim, iron and copper advertise this more extensively.
that the manufacturers do not
absolute waste. But if you pro-questioned her. cious campaign of Ghandi, it is being encouraged. Marketing
ceeded along an ordered courge,
"Let me see, where do figs come must always be borne in mind is being organised, and the Gov-
and co-operated with the local au from?" that the Communists are the ernment is endeavouring to sup
thorities, then you would carry out
"Kig trees." what you sought to do with remon- prime movers in the Indian dia plant the money lender by a 18-
able celerity and without undue content The Russians have been tional banking system. Indian STETTIN HARBOUR
expense.yle busy in Afghanistan, hoping to leaders in their talks of "Western reap something from the chaos materialism” seem to miss the there Roads and communice-huge energy of goodwill behind all
this. A Government which has The Stettin harbour is managed tions have been pushed up to the frontier through the four little at present few friends in India Stettin Municipality, which have now
Jointly by the Prussian State, and the SEAMEN'S WAGES DEDUCTION puppet Soviet Republics of Turis mamtaining order amid the restengeacllschaft.
here formed a company styled Stettine An action arising out of the claims
Yours etc..
FAIR HAIR Hong Kong, June 14, 1929.
NEW COMPANY FORMED
Colonel Ashley made a "tour" of
"And lemons ???
Lemon trees."
"And dates
Doris had to think this time. She
the garage in a car. The building | answered proudly, "From calen-
on it F Justified, he said, the £75,000 spent | dzra!"
he ventured a
Owing to "dud" cheques coming in, au hotel manager found it necessary to be on the alart. There handing over real notes to a com fore, when he found his new cashier kestan, and Russia may well be at volutionary ferment in the fac Municipality each hold 50 million of two seamen against the Booth
The State and the gate of India — not in the tories, the fever of national agita and all capital required for the ly before the Liverpool Stipendiary Magle mild inquiry. What are you-
marks of shares in the new company Steamship Company, Ltd., was settled parative stranger, sense that our fathers feared- tion, and the strife of the great provement or management of the port trate (Mr. Stuart Deacon)
doing?" he asked. but as an invader of ideas. But communities. But great mult propaganda is not dependent on tudes of Indians cannot weigh
That's right, that's right he "Cashing a cheque for Mr she smilede
said approving Just keep of persevering until you get a good
Communist agitators these things.s
to be provided by both parties in. Thomas Stewart and Frederick has been formed in order to carry one being the balance bich they alleg. equal proportions, Tils new company. Jackson each claimed from the company the work and management of the port ed has been wrongfully deducted from of the in a mow rational rate the former their wages. The Stipendiary Magis
companies, controllin e trake made an order by consent for the pany und au executive on many, having payment of £1 and £1 le costa in each proved too cumbr
pier that fames them In attempting
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