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"EMBERS who have not yet
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. MYceived Particulars of the Ball,
BRITISH SECTION.
NOTICE.
THE PUBLIC
IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that eu and from the 20TH INSTANT, the EXPRESS TRAIN which now Leaver Kowloon, at 300 FM will Depart Daily at 2.15 PM. and Arrive at Canton at 6.03 P.M.
The following Trains will be CAN- CELLED on and from the 90U ----- TRAIN Leaving Kowloon,
at 135 PM, ou Week-days,
TRAIN Learing Snow Caux,"
at 6.46 r.. on Weck-daya. By Order,
BOBERT BAKER, Manager and Chief Engineer. Kowloon, 17th Dec.. 1927, [6661,
may obtain the Fame apon Application to S. T. BUTLIN, o/a LINSTEAD & DAVIO.
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FOR SALE AT SHANGHAI,
H.BM. Gunboat "WOODCOCK."
BUILT by Mrs. THORMICROFT of Southampton, England. Length 148', Breadth 24, Draught 29, Displace- 10 nt 150 Tons, I.E.P. 550, Bpeed 9 Knots, 2 Beta
Engines and 2 receatly overhauled. Cox-
Thornycrple
Expansion
Boilers
As the now lios at SHANGHAI Dock
PANY'S POOTING WHARI, Armament,.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
A. C. HYNES,
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, 22nd November, 1927.
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Oil Driven Generating Set, Sempans and MONIES up to $135.000 a
all Stores orcopt about 28 8 Tons of Welsh
Available for lavestment on 1st Class Mortgage Security subject
Coal will be removed before Fals. If to a Trustee Valuation.
required for further Service the Ship can be soki to British Nationals only. If bought for breaking up the Ship to be completely broken up within 12 Months from Date of Purchase. The Ship may not be resold without the prerioul Writ
ten Consent of the BRITISH ADMIRALTY, Tenders which must be open for accept- Pince by
3rd January,
1928
should bo sent to the undersigned by Noox DO 29RD DECEMBER, 1927. The Tendera
hould be in Rexled Covers addressed the Undersigned and marked on the out- Ride TENDERS FOR WOOD- COCK
ance.
to
A Deposit of 10%, of the Amoast tendered must accompany Tender. On acceptance of an offer the Buyer to раз the Balance and take Delivery within One Week of Accept- All Charges to be for the Accounts of Buyers from Date of delivery. Permits to inspect
WOODCOCX" "may be obtained from the Undersigned. The Highest or any Tender will not necessarily be accepted.
H. T. GRIGG
Engineer Commander, BRITISH NAVAL OFFICE,
HB.M. Consulate,
BANGHAL
the
Enquiries should be addressed to NAVAL STOKE OFFICER, B.M. NAVAL YARD, Bong Kong,,
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PUBLIC AUCTION
OF THE
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
Situs'e at VICTORIA, in the Colony of Hong Kong, and registered at the Land Office the REMAINING PORTION of SECTION D of INLAND LOT No. 1995, with the Building thereon now known as No. 73, PORFULAM BOAD (The Building has 2 Beparate Wings and may be treated as 2 Houses with cae Common Entrance)
TO BE SOLD
IN ONE LOT
ON
THURSDAY,
THE IND DAT OF DECEMBER, 1927,
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No. 8. DUNDELL STREET, HONG KONG,
For further Particulars and Condi
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4 & 6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
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Col. Sir James Burnett, who re- AWAITING DEATH? Cently
relinquished command of
an infantry brigado of the Shang. bai Defence Force, bas arrived at Crathes Castle, Kincardineshire where he and Lady Burnett will re main atil January.
at
25 ** REDS" GOING BACK TO CANTON.
A SPECIAL ESCORT.
At Police Headquarters there are
RELIEF MEASURES.
HONG KONG HELP TO BE ORGANISED.
CHINESE CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE DISCUSSION.
But war has changed not merely in degree but in kind. It is entirely different from anything that was known in the past. - It makès a now demand on the troops engaged, and it also requires in different sort of courage. A fent of heroism as
The Hong Kong Philharmonie spectacular as the-Charge of the
Society give their final performance Light Brigade at Balaclava is
of "Morrie England," at the inconceivable. The day of the
Theatre Royal to-night. The per-
present about 25 identified (FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.) cavalryinan has passed. The soldierformance begins at nine o'clock
"Reds," out of nearly 300 suspect- ed adherents to the Communistic of these days of "scientific" war prompt. The last chance to seo an
The Hong Kong Chinese General, "cause," awaiting certain death. Chamber of Commerce fare gets all the danger without excellent show, well worth a second
met in They are now spending their com- general committee yesterday after- any of the incidental excitement. visit.
paratively last few hours on this
noon to consider the question of He is a cog in a mighty military An engagement is announced be-earth, for within a short space of relief measures at Cuaton. machine; like a man trying to do tween the Rev; W. G. Burgis, B.A..time they will be in Canton, and a job in a factory where the founda M.C., visar of Cheddleton, and facing an execution squad, tions may subside or the roof Mrs. Harris of Basford Hall, Lock. fall in at any moment and the widow of Mr. F. C. Harris, I.M.C. machinery has a fearful tendency of China, and daughter of Mr to explode--the whole complicated Deans of Riccarton. Christchurch, by sporadic escapes of poisonous New Zealand,
gis
»
made by the
The following appointments to Hong Kong were Secretary of State for the Colonies during the month ended September 30th:-Miss D. S. Smith and Miss M. B. Watts, Assistant Mistresses; Miss S. H. Andrews and Miss D. Robinson, Nursing Sisters.
The new kind of courage required is of a quality that nobody believes in his heart he ought to be asked to display. In the ordinary way no soldier worthy of the name will submit to be called a coward; but is there any normal man who need
The theft of a diamond ring feel ashamed of being frightened valued at $350 from her residence by the appalling horrors of warfare at Kowloon City has been reported as manifested between 1914 and to the police by Mra Reynolds, In days of old a veteran In another report a case of ginseng was so-called because he had learn-valued at $7,000 was believed to ed to resist the sense of fear which have been stolen while discharging
cargo from the &a. Kanchow. might assail those without his ex- perience. Now soldier of experi- ence is often one who has had his resistence to tear weakened by the perils to which he has grown accus- tomed. Instead of becoming barden against danger he is more likely
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to become a nervous wreck. veteran is, therefore, in many cases of less value than an untried man.
Sir WILLIAM ROBERTSON'S pro- nouncement has very properly at- tracted attention. When professional soldiers of his standing speak on military questions civilians should pay heed. But it is desirable, all the same, to consider the subject
KING EDWARD HOTEL, dispassionately in all its bearings
CHRISTMAS EVE &
NEW YEAR'S EVE"
There is nothing worse than muddled thinking, Beenuse "War in Hell," as General SHARMAN declared after the American Civil War, it must not be supposed that it is our bounden duty to disarm in haate is pacificts are prone to counsel Some of them are, indeed, going to BOOKING can now be made at the Hotel the extreme of saying that if
DINNER DANCE 8.30 r.x. ro 12 MIDNIGHT.
$2.50 Pax Prox
DEATH. LOCKHART.-On November 3rd, at a nursing home in London, Eve daughter of WILLIAM BRUCE and GRACE HILDA LOCKHART, Shanghai, aged 9 years.
Street.
Fleet Street, E.Č. 4.
of
Britain led the way other nations would follow.
|
Aming the passengers leaving
a yesterday afternoon on the Changte for Australia, si Manila
With the assistance of Canton detectives, who have been sent dowe here since the outbreak at Canton, this particular group of men, one
Mr. Li Yau Tiun, Chairman of the Chamber, presided, supported. by Mr. Li Yick Mui, Vice-Chair- man, and Mr. Chang Pak Yu, act ing secretary in the absence of Mr. Ip Lan Chuan, General Secretary investigating conditions on behalf
of whom was a boy on the Sai. On, of the Chamber who was in Canton
of the Committee.
Communications from Chan Lim
Pak, pas; President of the General. Chamber of Commerce in Canton. General Ngai Bong Ping, formerly
have been identified as prominent "Red" leaders and adherents. They are being sent back, it is learned, today to Canton under the guard of a specially selected force of police, and detectives from
Commissioner of Canton Police, and Canton and Hong Kong. The rea- son "for every precaution being others, asking for relief on behalf taken is that they are considered of the sufferers having been read. dangerous characters. Some of the Chairman remarked that the them have openly admitted they disaster had been. the worst ever are Communists, and there is no seen, in this part of the world and doubt that when they reach Canton that the Hong Kong Authorities they will either face one of Li Fuck would raise no objection to the Lam's "firing parties cr lose their Chamber taking action for reliet heads.
He having consülted the Secretariat - for Chinese Affairs on this matter last Wednesday.
The remaining suspects will be sent back to Canton within the next day or two,
Another Outbreak?
and ports, were the following:— Mr. E. L. Stainfield, of the Sup-large number of passengers ar The reason given for the very renme Court, Mr. T. Hughes, Mr.riving on the river steamers yester. and Mrs. I. W. Anderson, Mr. and day from Canton is that they are Mrs. Manning, Mr. H. R. Everitt, coming here as a haven of refuge, Miss M. T. Hughes, Capt. and Mrs.
T. W. Pickard, Mr. W. G. Walker, because it is feared that there will Mr. C. H. Bryant, Mr. Donald" be a "Red" re-action in Canton. Quirk and Mr. and Mrs. Forsythe.
Before the appointment of + relief committer was made, Mr. Ho lu, a member of the Committee,” expressed the hope that the Chi- Kong would do something finally to nese merchante in Canton and Hong rid-Kwangtung of all "Reds." Un
less this was done, he thought that relief work from similar
cause
would be many times repeated. He The City is still described as be-enggested the formation of mer- ing littered with dead bodies, and chants volunteer defence corps and the loyalists are continuing their the like.
A party was given by Mr. and Mrs. Augustus John on November 5th, in honour of the return of their sailor son, Caspar, from the China comb-out Station. Dancing commenced at tea suspected persons. time and the party did not break
u
till three in the morning.
Augustus John himself was dancing away merrily most of the tisic, while his son seemed to be quite as much at home in a studio as in a battleship.
of communists
and
TO BE CHARGED TO-DAY.
RECENT SHOOTING RECALLED.
CHINESE TO FACE "CAPITAL
CHARGE.
Commenting upon the dinner and reception given by Sir Elly Kadoorie to King Feisal of Iraq in London, a Daily Hapress correspondent re- marks that Sir Elly's house in Prince's-gate is not quite the palace that he has built at Shanghai, but for a man who can receive 1,500 people with ens in his Chinese home, any London house must seem amali. King Feisal visited the sub- Yesterday one of the Chinese marine depot at Portsmouth on robbers identified with, the recent November 9th, and had lunch with shooting affray,
in which Police Rear-Admiral H. E. Grace, Rear- Admiral of Submarines, who will Sergt. McMahon was wounded and be remembered as Commodore at a Chinese and Indian constable Hong Kong...
The Chairman agreed with Mr. Hd.but ruled that the object of the meeting that day was to undertake immediate relied work and that other action must be left to some future occasion.
>
Sir Robert Ho Tung, who bae not taken active interest in the businessTM of the Chamber for some time, was present and raid a few words to the same effect which were roundly ap- plauded. His speech appears o page 5 under our Canton news.
Mr. Ho Kwong and others were surprised at the delay of the officers of the Chamber in calling the meet- ing as the matter was one of emer- geney and the highest importance.
Mr. Ho Wing of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, also said that he was astonished, on being informed that the Chair- This
man had at first hesitated to take any action with regard to relief because sanction had not been re-
Committee Appointed.
But would they?" When SAMSON was shorn of his strength and fell into the hands of the Philistines
were shot, was discharged from the they mocked hii and showed him
At the evening service on Sunday Government Civil Hospital. no mercy. It is true now as heret Union Church, Kennedy Road, morning he is to be charged at the Christmas music will be rendered, Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House tofore" that the best guarantee of including some of the standard soles Central Magistracy, it is andere OFFICES & GODOWN{ London Office: 21, Bride Lane Peace is to be prepared for war. from Handel's Messiah. The items ĉtood, with the murder of the tweceived from the proper authorities.
"The truth is that Great Britain, Tellest," Mrs. G. Watt: "But Who curbed to their wounds at the promised include "O Thou That Chinese police officers, who suc which in this connotation means the May Abide," Mrs. H. Glover: "He
After some discussion, u Com- British Commonwealth of Nations, Come Unto Me," Mrs. Bowe
Shall Feed His Flock," Mrs. Watt;
Goverment Civil Hospital.
mittee was appointed to take charge Two of the alleged robbers are of the matter. It consists of the occupies a unique position. While Smith. The band of the K.O.S.Ba.
will play from 6.45 p.m. in addition in eustody of the police. The first following:-Messrs. Ho In, «Sum willing to go to reasonable lengths to leading the hymns and giving the man is charged with armed rob- Pak Ming, Chan Pek Chuan, Ho to prevent war-knowing that it is voluntaries, Mr. W. H, Fitzearle, bery, shooting at the police, and indeed a "wholly detestable thing" AR.M.C., conducting. The soloists -Britain may be trusted to main by Mr. G. E. Longyear.
will be accompanied on the organ also has other counts against him.
Sergt. McMahon is progressing tain the armed forces of the Crown at a strength which is equal to the freshers at
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The meeting was attended. "by practically all the leading Chinees merchants in Hong Kong, and.
already mentioned were Messrs. Ma Taui Chiu, Mia Wing Chan, Gork SUCCESSFUL DINNER DANCE. Chin, Loui Yan Suan, Lee Shing
Kui, Au Lim Chuen, and others.
It is hoped that the meeting on Monday or Tuesday will receive the. report of the committee of investi- gation and announce what is to be done by the Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Tung Wah Hospital, the 24 Districts Commer→ cial Guilds and others.
The annual dinner dance of the
A GREAT deal of discussion on dis- any demands that may be made Evelyn Irons in the Daily Mail, ia armament has been aroused in upon them in any part of the Mom Chao Noy Kityakara, & cousin. THE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIA- among those present besides those England since Sir WILLIAM ROBERT son recently declared in a public
is apeech that war
wholly detestable thing." He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff dur-. ing the Great War, and therefore, at the brad of the British military organisation. He has been a soldier. for fifty years, and has risen from the lowest to the highest position that a soldier can hold. He served in four campaigns in three con- tinents, and the considered opinion
One Portuguese case of diphtheria was notified to the authorities dur- ing the 24 hours ended December.
Inth.
of the young King of Siam. Her delicate olive skin, almond eyes, and heavy black fringe are most attrac tive, and she has the reputation of being the smallest woman in Siam. She is certainly the smallest in Somerville. She studies medieval history, and dumbfounds the doos! Hong Kong Automobile Associa with questions on the elements oftion was held last night at the European religion! Her father, the Prince of Chandaburi, was at Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden. Balliol, and she is now a thorough This is, as has been stated before, While in the act of hauling an Oxonian, appreciating everything only the second dinner dance given Awning on a cargo boat, the rope from English clothes to England broke and the awning fell on the weather.
by the A,A. but there is no doubt man. The result was a broken leg.
that the event has come to stay. The Royal Humane Society's
Everyone enjoyed the proceed- Bombadier Greenfield, RA,,, was Bronze Medal has been awarded to bitten by a terrier dog on Thursday. Sergt. G. W. Martin, D.C.M., inge, which were left as free and The animal was edited, and sent to Royal Artillery, Headquarters, of a man of his eminence is there, the observation depot at Matankok, North China Command, Shanghai informal as possible. The Roof fore impressive. What Bir WILLIAM.
Bergt. Martin, it will be remember- Garden looked charming, its colour- ROBERTSON HAS in mind is the has been made by the police on threw herself into the Whangpoo
A seizure of 80 lbs. of raw opiumed," saved Nina Ceilivakya, who ed lights forming an admirable altered character of warfare since board the s.8. Fousing, lying at River in an attempt at suicide at setting to a pretty scene.
Commander Hartford, R.N.. the days when it was possible to the Kowloon Goddowns No arrests Shanghai on June 1st.
were made in connection with the jumped in from the bank, and after (Retired) President of the Asso- [28-think of war as possessing some of seizure.
swimming 70 to 80 yards reached the attributes of glory. The physical
the woman, and, in spite of her viation, submitted a review of the Among the passengers arriving in struggles, succeeded in bringing her year's work, and also welcomed the prowess of men fighting in the open Hong Kong yesterday by the .. to eteam launch near the jetty,
guests. 110 LET. -- From First Femutant, T
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The report issued by the Royal Observatory at 11.10 am. yesterday was: The anti-cyclone is contral to. the north of the Yangtze, Moder- ate to fresh monsoon may be ex- pected along the Coast of China and over the China Sen. Forêcast: Easterly winds, fresh, cloudy, some rain
Yesterday evening'a report, issued. at 5:15 o'clock, stated:--
The anti-cyclone has increased in Intensity and fresh monsoon will prevail along the coast and over the China Sea
Local Forecast:-N.E. fresh, cloudy.
winds,
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