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dead-early all the statesnion, ex- copt Mr. LLOYD Gronar, Lord GREX, and M. POINCARE, and most of the senior generals and admirals. It s strange indeed to remember that n few veterans of the Crimea, the Mutiny and the American Civili War aro still with us, and that people now only in the sixties have
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The King Pays Too Much.
In a list, submitted by the Clerk to Egliam Council, of amounts over: paid in respect of the rate for the last half-year was the following
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Australia Sending Back Italians..
Australia's Mr. A. Blakeley, Minister for Home Affairs, has Local. turned down the representations of
Second-day the Italian Association on behalf of attempted arson the 06. Italians who were refused Bessions.
talked with Waterloo.men. There entry: AURA Windsor admission to Australia last month.
are even a few survivors of the pro Victorian age. Change in rapid in these days change that effects not merely the wealthy and the learned but the humblest peasant and un-
BROWN-SCOTT.-At Ichang on Deskilled worker.:
cember 15, FRANK. A. BROWN,
DEATH.
son of the Rev. FRED. BROWS, The post-war generation, for all formerly of Tientein, to Dr. R.its supposed self-preoccupation, ANTOINETTE M. SCOTT, dangliter cannot but look with wonder on of the Rev. THOMAS SCOTT,
those whose lives had their begin Laurencekirk, Scotland.
ning in a different world and whose living contacts in childhood were SULIMA HOOREN: On Desember with men of the age of conches,
at Shanghai.
sailing ships and the Napoleonic struggle. Perhaps in twenty years this period of change and transition will have passed.. The new world now in the process of moulding may have solidified into a stable structure, and then with penco and prosperity established a new genera tion-and perhaps the old one-will sigh for the excitement and forget , the anxieties of the War and the decades of resulting confusion and
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HM the King (re Park); 98. Od. overpaid on this assessment. Refund to be made and set off against current rate."
Weeding Out the National Gallery,
Mr. A. M. Samuel, M.P., suggests
The association will probably appeal to the High Court Dao hundred Italians who were due to arrive on Decomber 17 were also to be sent back.
trin) at tha
·Fage 7.
At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- terday, two Chinese-fortune-tellers.. wore charged with having obtained 83,500 from a woman, by means of a trick
Page 7. The first annual meeting of the Hong Kong Society for the Proteo-
The Sino-Chinese Agreement retion of Children was held yesterday & qucation to the Prime Minister that the trustees of the National Gallery should be empowered to storing to China of the operation of at the City Hall and was largely Page 7 all such, pictures and drawings the Tsingtao end of the Tsingtao attended. now stored as may be declared to Sasebo cable was effected yesterday.
The funeral of the late Rev. W. Pago 0. be of only slight interest and not,
F. Croathwait took place at Happy A tribal fight has been preceeding Valley with full military honours usually exhibited."
Page 7. he proposes, should be used for the between Basutos and Pondos at yesterday. purchase of works of art of greater the Randfontein Estates Mine since interest and more suitable for ex. Christmas. Hitherto four have been 'killed and ·73 wounded. It is the hibition
worst outbreak for 25 years.
Page 9,
The proceeds,
A Bishop's "Advice to the
Married."
Doctors and the Modern Girl,
t
The frat luncheon of the Rotary Club was held at Messrs Lane, Crawford's Restaurant yesterday.
Fage 6. Shipping Intelligence. Page 16. To-day's wireless programme.
Contrary to all expectations, Marshal Joffre, has recovered con- saioueness, but a bulletin issued at eight o'clock yesterday morning stated that his lungs were becoming Sport. blocked and his breathing remained Page 9. irregular.
The Government of Turkey has Cricket Tournament. ordered the seizure of all religious
Page:
Army beat Navy in Triangular,
Page-10..
Ten were killed in a hotel fire Page. 9.
Page Ú.
The Bishop of Chichester (the Right Rev. G. K. A. Bell) is to issue a pastoral letter addressed to those about to marry. The lotter will be ready early in the New Year, and the clergy in the diocese will have copies which they will hand to young couples after the service has been performed. Dr. Bell said: banners bearing inscriptions from Latest Cables. "Generally speaking, the letter will the Koran, fearing that they might be of a kind to intimate to the young, be used to bre the fanaticism of the people about to be married what masses in the event of a popular at Cochrane, Ontario.
Page 9.
It is understood that the new the responsibilities of marrings; outbreak. nre. I have not yet decided on the The Senior Warden of Mines in Tariff Schedule will be effective. lines of the letter; but on broad the Foderated Malay States has from January 1.
Page d lines I may say that it is a desire circularis the, tin producers stat-
The Australian Government has to emphasise the Christian characing that the Government is prepar decided to restrict alien immigrn- THE OLD ORDER PASSES.
ter of marriage between Christian ed. to legislate to give effect to the
provided public opinion generally is position is improved. favourable. N
Page 9. The funeral of Lord Melchett was The close of the year 1930 sees the Mr. JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS, a discard who choose to be married in international tin restriction scheme tion until the country's econo Eighty passengers were killed and attended by representatives from passing, in all human probability,tinguished American citizen, has of one of the great historic figures written a searching indictment of
The modern girl was under dis-40 injured as the result of the every department of Great Britain's the Pei- public life yesterday. Page 9. of our time-Marshal JOFFRE. For America's faults* He is a class
cussion at a Public Health Congress derailment of a train. several years the famous soldier and keen observer of both his own at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, ping-Mukden Railway, due to the has lived in retirement, but the country and of Europe, and cannot Speaking on maternal mortality, removal of the fish plates by bandits. news of his sickness has vividly rebo accused of being biassed in Dr. Farrar, medical officer for Lei. The boiler of the locomotive caused Have women in one of the cars, burning many called the early days of the War favour of Europe. He comes from cestershire, admitted that he did not a fire amongst gasolene and matches the object of overthrowing the Pro-
altered?" he asked, and he an- of the passengers to death. Page 0. A Japanese report from Tientsin swered himself in the next sen- tence: "In the last three or four states that Chang Hauch Liang hne years girls have altered." The issued a déclaration that the aboli other day," added Dr. Farrar," my tion of likin will be effective in wife and I saw a hunting person Chihli on January 1, but that the astride a horse. It had a tall hat, decision regarding Manchuria and a monocle. I said: That is a must be delayed pending the forth. funny looking fellow but my wife coming financial conference to be said: "That is not a man, it is a held at Mukden: The old guard and be was one of Colonel House's girl. Recently I saw an article in Manchurin are showing consider staff which prepared data for the in a woman's paper about slimming able opposition to his policy.
Page 9. Peace Conference. Since the war be. That is one thing we do not want.".. has divided his time about equally between America and Europe.
when he, Lord JELLICOL, Field Marshal Vox MOLTEE and the GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS were the
four pivotal men of the world. On them more than on any other in-
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fost the war in an afternoon and, by reason of one false decision. Ger many was struggling for the knock aut blow. Everything. was being staked upon the rapid capture of
family which was settled in America before the Pilgrim Fathers arrived and which has given two Presidente and many other dis tinguished public servants to the United States Mr. ADAMS himself served during the war in the American Military Intelligence,
On 'American lawlessness he is. particularly illuminating. Mr. ADAMS admits that Amerion is much muro fawless than Europe, and in seeking the cause he avoids the facile statement, so popular...new, that it is due to Prohibition. That
understand women,
7.
Chinese reporte state that Chang Fat Fui and Pei Chung Hsi with an army have entered Yunnan with vincial Government
from to-day.
Page 9. Instructions have been given by the Nanking Government for the closing up of the branch offices and
Page D the head office of the Peiping Octros In connection with the publica- tion of China's new Import Tariff Schedule, it is rumoured that print- Schedule, it is disposed of in Shang. official promulgation... Page 0.. hai at attractives prices before its (Continued on previous column.)
Local Notes and Events
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Reclamation work baa Legun-off:
the proposed vehicular ferry echeme. army in the field. In the appalling he finds the real basis for further back in American history. That chaos of the first phase of the cause in the frontier. Fow Euro-
A Chinese was removed to the
A Police report states that cat struggle in Northern France the peans realise that the frontier in
Among the New Year celebrations Government Civil Hospital yester Chinese waitress was the victim of [10301 Commander-in-Chief could exercise America, only ceased na that until will be the President's dance of the day suffering from leg injuries. the well-known "confidence trick.
exist in 1850. This means Craigeugower Cricket. Club. which sustained through falling from the on Monday when she was relieved only a general control over his forty years ago a large and virile takes place this evening.
second floor of the new National of jewellery and monies totalling" subordinato chiefs, and experts still portion of the population was fight
City Bank building, now in course 876. The incident. happened when differ violently as to the part playing nature in conditions which left
the victim was returning home: no time for the niceties of law. The next moving of the English of construction.ne
along Laichikok Road. ed by Jorrne. Even so careful an Every man defended himself and Association will be held on January
speak on "Judicial English"
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historiani as Captain LIDDELL HARTi settled his own quarrels. The com- 5, when Mr. II, C. Nacnamara will imprisonment was imposed on 8)
re-echoes the pungent strictures of Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL on the French higher command. JOFFRE bimself maintained a stolid silence
characteristic of the man. An ance
Mr. N. Drummond, of 2, Quarry Point, has made a report to the Police that some person stole a Tientsin carpet from the back of his housa
by
the
unity dealt with anti-social in- dividuals by lynch law, and lynch law persisted long after the real need for it had been obviated by the establishment of courts and legal machinery. Even farther back than that he traces the disregard for British law. in colonial times based
Passengers arriving on resentment against British taxes and tariffs, the evasion of which Kashima Mare on Monday includ- carried no moral stigma.
ed Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Parsons and "Fool law" are another factor Messrs. S..T. Butlin, G. W. Sewell, America's disregard for law in J. H. Austin and C. J. Thompson. general. Mr. ADAMS points out
The exhibition match between the that forty-eight state legislatures and the Federal Congress aro grind two golf professionale," Wild ing out thousands of laws a year. Bill" Wehlhorn and Bobby Cruck many of them foolish and many of chank, will take place at Fanling theur incapable of enforcement. Het 2.30 m. on Wednesday, January reminds his renders how easy it is 14. for a band of carnrst reformers or
A report has been made to the cranks to occure, the passage of legislation, and, how difficult it is Police by Mr. C. H. Hoare, of to obtain its rejcal. The result is Mears. Lane, Crawford's, that his open defiance or quiet nullification. Buick motor car was stolen en De The book, however, is not entirely cember 28 when he parked it in devoted to Americea criminality. Ruinsey Street, There are intensely interesting chapters on education, on the stand-
Looking Back 25 Years
A fine of $100, or two months'
Chinose who was charged with pre- 90, Woosung paring opium at
Some months back an American Street, on December 20, when the man made his appearance before the Kowloon. Magistrate yesterday. named Ernest Horwite was charged et Shanghai with forging a cheque
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passage by tho- HMS. Korea for Capt. W. Lee, of the sa. Helikon, America Nowe has now been re- which arrived from Saigon on crived of the arrest of Horwito at Sunday afternoon, made a report San Francisco-Hong Kong Daily to the Harbour authorities that 'ress, December 9, 1905. during the voyage a small fire Looking Hack 60 Years. broke out in the 'tween deck when
The Innentable catastrophe, which got alighted on the instant in the five bags of charcoal got alight.
Two deaths (one non-Chinese) Inland Sen, Japan, certainly points from typhoid and one from diph a moral if it does not adorn a tale. theria were reported for the 24 A small Japanese stemer, of come hours ended December 20. For the eighty tons, recently launched, wan week ended Decembr 7 there were on her passage from Osaka. to 4 cases of diphtheria, 1 case of Shimonoseki, carrying sixty passan- smallpox, 6 cases (1 death) of gers and a crew of twenty-two men. enteria fever, 1 caso of cerebro when a fire was discovered to have spinal fever and 62 deaths of pul-broken out in the coal bunkers.. monary tuberculosis.
dote told of him may or may not bo true, but is in keeping." ." Mar. shal JOFFEE, tell the who, in your opinion, won the first battle of the Marno?" a lody is supposed to have asked. Madame," replied the soldier, that
is a very difficult question, but if it had not been won I know who would have lost it."
It has boers suggested that JOFFEE owed his position to astute poli- tical affiliations. Long before the War JOFFRE, was in the position of liaison officer between the Army and the Government. A well nuthen ticated account of his selection as
Tai Kam Fei, who claimed to be Commander-in-Chief in 1911 shows ard of living, on the social conven- a police official at Swatow, was how he was regarded. It was just tions, and other phases of American Sned 850 by the Kowloon Magis life. Ho attacks especially the trate yesterday when he was charg before the Agadir crisis that the American craze for University deal with the unlawful possession of French Cabinet, taking the grayest grees as necessary qualifications for a roll of cloth in Temple Street view of the policy of Imperial obtaining jobs, and makes sport
The estimated traffic receipts of at the Shamshuipo Military Camp with the minor universities that. Germany, summoned a meeting of grant degrees in chicken raining, the Imperial and International were charged before Mr. Butters the most distinguished, generals in typing and stenography, and sales Communications, Ltd., for Novem with smilting another "boy" confusion soon
ber, 1930, were £402,886 as compared Both were convicted and fined $5 Yet if the engines could have been: France and charged them with the manship.
An interesting point that Mr. with £612,183 for November, 1929, each in addition to being bound stopped, all on board might have k of selecting their chief-desig. ADAMS makes is that while America while the aggregate receipts from over in bonds of 860 to keep the been saved, for the steamer Tokio nate in the event of war. The has ceased to be racially predomin January to November are £4,829,154 peace for six months. It was stated Maru having bean attracted by military men decided at once that notly Anglo-Saxon, men of that as compared wit £5,828,029 for the that the assault was the result of seeing the flames, steamed to the alt jealously among the servants at the of the unfortunates. But the doom- blood still hold most of the places same period last year,
ed vessel sped on away from the there two possible candidates, of nower and distinction. He
·camp'
ready sticcour, and those on board A report has been made to the Jorras and CBTELNAU.. CASTELNAU nuklyses the entries in the American
Yau Kwai, & faki employed at could be seen by those on the pur- is reported to have said: "I will" Who's Who" all of whom, he Police by Lo Ming Sai, & foreman
anye, must have achieved some dis employed by the Man Bang firm of the Taiko Sugar Refinery, who was suing steamer to throw themselves. take the post if you wish me to, tinction to win a place there. Out contractors, to the effect that aremanded on Monday on the charge into the water, one after another. but I think Jors would be the of 20,000 entries only 10 per cent. large quantity of dynamite (valued of being in possession of seditious to escape the still more dreaded
sommers with myself as were foreign-born, hair of
some accident to her machinery, the ninaunamasthadskillside near E Lindsell yesterday when ho
TITTING, KITTYBUOgou TTE BEEN CON TI Argylla Street sometime between 7 was menargen, in ordering ene p.m. on Sunday and 6 a. on defendant's release, the Magistrate Maru lowered a boat to pick up the Monday. It is thought that some said that he thought it was a border survivors, only eighteen out of person or persons entered the line case and that the documents eighty-two souls could be enved. magazine by means of a duplicate were not sufficicatly damaging to Hong Kong Daily Prese. Dovember
29, 1880, warrant a conviction. key.
wero
bis Chief-of-Staff."
One likes to believe the truth of that story, for already, the men of those days are appearing in heroic proportion. Many of them are now
A SEARCHLIGHT ON AMELION" By James Truslow Adame. (Routledge 12, ed.).
Two Chinese craployed as boys
The best apeedily became so intense that they could not stop the engines, and as the vesaot was about:
miles from land, and twenty possessed only one boat, the
bogomo terrible,"