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MCLEOD At the Officers' Quarters, Victoria Gaol, Arbuthnot Road, on the 17th inst, William, aged 19 years and 9 months, the beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. James M. McLeod. The funeral will leave Arbuthnot Road at 4:30 p.m. to-day and will pass the Monu ment at 5.15 p.m.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1927
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NOTES & COMMENTS,
U. S. and the L. o N.
A report has gained currency that Britain and France wil utilise the Washington Confer ence to raise the question of America's entrance into the League of Nations. The repart says that it is not considered necessary to add any resolution
TUESDAY, OCTOBER
DAY BY DAY.
SOME FELLOWS CAN ONLY SEN THOER ABOVE THEM, AND OTHERS CAN ONLY BE THOSE UNDER THEM, BUT A GOOD MAN 13 CROSS-EYED AND CAN
SEE BOTH ENDO AT ONCE-G, H. Larimer,
LEAVE THEM ALONE ovations, knowing so they must BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE
And They'll Come Home.
DE CHINE
The Re-Organisation Scheme.
GOOD NEWS FOR
OREDITORS:
know that it will do no particle o good. There is no virtos in that kind of parformance. Like the pup they do not stop and inquire, first, whether the boy on BY ROBT. MACWHIRTER.--| the bike is not minding his own When I was a lad serving my business and thus setting them good example, secondly, apprenticeship I used to work)a quite a bit away from home. For whether any amount of chasing along while most of my pocket and yelping will do any good Suffering from injuries alleged money used go to the cobbler, for and, lastly, what they would to the agenda, as the matter can to have been the result of a fight, the roads were long and hard and themselves do wi' the thing if Chine have be raised under the general head. Chinese was yesterday taken and when night-time came by any chance they should over-scheme by which the Bank will
take it.
be in a position to re-open and ing of disarmament. Although to the Government Civil Hospital. wasna" very spry at lifting my
Let me give the Hongkong March next year and which pro- assume business on or before feet. In due season I got a bike, somewhat surprising, the reported
It was a good bike, at least I can newspapers a tip, and the rest vides for the repayment intantion is not entirely improb On the invitation of Mr.
When able.
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campaign was bring waged in will this afternoon proceed to Amorics it was Art X. of the Kowloon City to inspect the work Covenant that was stressed as carried on at St. Joseph's Home the ground of objection, it being for the Infirm. contended that this would commit America to armed intervention
There is one little matter which has come to our notice rule over the week-end which we think will be of general in-presented.
Government.
home.
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the anti-League | Francisco Tse Yat, Lady Stubbs/mind it had a good bell. After Ilo Hongkong that's still procreditors in full within six months
got the machine, going home was onything else but Canton. Lay like washing your face, it was off or some day you'll fall into of the re-opening Jate. This re- so easy. But what I was going the ditch and break your sense-assoring and welcome statement
tell JO
was made before Mr. Justice WAS this. Onless necks, for tha Canton the road home every night I had Government has, to all appear FC Jenkin (instructed by Messrs. Gompertz this moming, whan kir. to pass a cottage-it used to be an ances, come to stay. Allirwants The Hop. Treasurer of the old tollbar, but that doesna' matter is time and
Deacon and then there'll be Deacon, Looker, in European affairs. The Article Borgkong Women's Guild and and I used to be terribly annoy, peace in China.
Harston) made an application, on Give them in question provides for the other Ministering Children's League ad by a wee dog that belonged another
behalf of the Bact, to have "the year and see what mombers of the League coming to acknowledges the aid of a wrongly attacked donations of $150 and $100 from say a cross between a Pomeranian to sleep and leave the roadway until Jan. 16th.
the receipt of there. By breed it was I should happens. In the meantime go Banque Industrielle de Chine's | winding-up petition adjourned member nation. Elimination of Sir Paul Chater, $150 from Mr. and a Cadár Mop. Wi' fiendish alone, for there's things going
Council produced the affidavit A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD. why the oferitance Montague Ede, and $50 from Mr. sagacity this animal waited for along there that y's canna' tackle.
of taking away effectiveness Stephen.
me every night wit a pertinacity They're ower big for ye. If of Mr. M. Montargis, In of the League in the last resort 20
that savoured o' brotherly love, canna' help, be quiet,
That which it was stated long as war plays a part in human
Oct. 6th, 1921, at the request of The following extract from the his wee snout in the gutter at at least will affairs. The nations have, however,
Massrs. Descon, Looker, Dascon long since intimated their willing Gazette of Indis. No. 1768, dated right angle to the roadway and thing
and Harston, Mr. Montargis ness to agree to revision of the Simis 5.9.21, is published in to the pig eyes o' him gleaming out
It's no so much & question of cabled to Paris asking them to with day's Command Orders for inform the low visibility, so to speak the official or the diplomatic re-cable the probable date of the Article io accordance American wishes. A few monthsation-Promotion-Capain to beEvery night his performance walations between the governments re-opening of the Bank. The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36 ago President Harding was stated / Major-Colin Leslie-Smith, 1stays the same. Whenever the of Hongkong and Canton that further requested information as to be consulting America's "beat Ba. 22nd Punjabis. dated 29th bike and I got opposite bim counts, as it is the feeling exist-to wbat arritude the High Courts por núm. Payable in Advance.)
he launched himself at 108, in relation The rate per quarter and per mensem, proportional. Subscrip- minds
to his August, 1921.
axploding wi' perfect regularity between the Chinese and the of Justice in England were ad- tions for any period less than one month will be charged as for a alternative of an Association of
British people. Ay, that's what opting towards further adjouro- Thera has been no case of sod all his teeth working o707- full month.
Nations. Nothing further has The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee been heard of this project lately: Dotifiable disease reported since time. Just about two hundred matters. No only here in the tents of the hearing of the Bank's e accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies perhaps the President has Friday. The returns far the week Fards past the house there was a south but also in the north (over petition for an order for winding the Anglo-Japanese Alliance) up. On Oct. 7th, Mr. Montargis falivered at their residences without any extra charge. On copies suspended the scheme pending ending Saturday show there were bend in the road. sent by post an additional $1.50 per quarter is charged for posiaga, the Conference. With Art only five cases reported all last happened was this. By the time there is a growing feeling of received a cable from the Saigon
Single Copies, Daily, tan cents.
deleted or modified, the League, week, one of them being fatal. I got about three lengthso him mistrust, Britain has always said ofhoe (the Head office for Indo- Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for one would judge, must come to Three Chinese are reported to self he was wall behind but still she was China's greatest friend: Chine) stating that the General oxed period will be continued until countermanded.
pretty much the kind of thing have died from influenta, which running and he ran so bismed to-day this statement is being Manager at Paris had asked the The "Hongkong Telegraph" is now on sale at, and will be the President has had in mind. is not a notifiable disease but hard that he never saw the ditch seriously questioned by the manager at Saigon to communi
native mind. Since the cate to Mr. Montargis that the delivered to subscribers by, the Dairy Farm Company, Lid. There bave bean
included to the weekly at the bend of the road but fell Saa symptoms which
bagan
shine in French Cabinet had officially ap- Sameen, Canton, who are our agents there.
recently of a change of attitude returns for the sake of informisto it, crawled out and stood Canton there's been very little proved the re-organisation scheme
barking. towards the League or, at any tion
evidence of that traditional approved at the shareholders. rate, towards European develop
Then be trudged home, friendship. There's been nothing meeting in Paris on July 25th. Information received at the suppose. wi bis mind fully but press ments on the part of the United
criticism of the and, farther, that the Cabinet States Administration, which has local French Consulate General roade up for another try the next man who is unquestionably had entrusted to the Banque de again been represented. if only states
that Marobal Joffre. night
people's idol. Another Paris et Des Pays Bas the carry- informally, at Faris. If the forth-accompanied by Madame Joffre For mouths that same dog thing. It is a fact that the ing out and performing of all coming Conference were to result and their daughter and a retinue ran at me, chased me and fell number of Britishers who have necessary negotiations for bring- in America's adhesion, it would of officers, will depart from into the same ditch, stood cursing called on President Sun since he ing into force the scheme in the open a new and vital chapter in Marseilles on the 28th November mel and then walked back took presidential office could be shortest possible time. the history of the world, for the on their tour of the Far East,
counted on the fingers of both
On Oct. 9th, continued the defection of the great Republic (undertaken on the invitation of
hands. whereas scarcely
sidavit, he received a cable Japanese has been the chief factor in the the
Seeing the Daily Press going American business man visiting from the General Manager in limitation of the League's utility. Marshal Joffre is due to reach for Canton aye brings me in mind Canton does not par his compli- Paris confirming the facta coo- Saigon, the second stage of his that wee cross-tempered dogments. It is those things that tained in that cable and further The Near East.
journey, about Christmas, and I had another run at it yesterday count. America is getting the informing him that the Banque Perhaps the visit of the Greek will then proceed on an extensive morning, another case, as Joe of us in popularity and British de Paris of de Pays Bas hoped Premier, with the Foreign Minis- tour of Sism and French Indo-would have is of a conspicuously business is suffering. Note the to raise the necessary funds and The cruiser Montcalm, glaring instance of the injudicions recent American Municipal Loan perform the necessary acts and ter. to Paris and London will China. elucidate an obscure situation. which is a familiar ship in these use of superfluous words in the of $15,000,000 and its significance. things for bringing into effect Not long ago a Near Eastern Waters, recently left Hongkong one case and the omission of vital) Consider what this must mean the re-organisation scheme for
to take on board the Marshal and words in another." This steraalto British business and trade. .conference was convened
darting out at Canton at the
the re-opening of the Bank in the London, Greece and the Cas-his party as passengers.
There can be no question that early part of 1922. Full details of |slightest provocation is, to my stantinople and Angora Govern-
mind, intensely stupid if nothing the Canton Government (leaving the scheme were not sisted, but meats, which at present divide
more. Mind ye, it's a wise man individual personalities out the the cable informed him that the in Turkey, being
NORMAS AND MUNCIE LEFT FOR who can appear stupid at times, question altogether) is out to do scheme provided for the repay- Things appeared
but some men carry it to excess.the right thing by the people and ment in full within 6 months, Boiled down. this yammering andy Chins. They are honest when following the re-opening of the they condemn the north and the Bank, of all purely banking sensational girning and trying to been commented upon that German agents now working the basis of the revision of the events connected with the geol Treaties and their provisions military faction and they are debts, such as bills, drafts, de throughout the Far East are securing very many orders by Treaty of Serres when the pour-breaking exploits of the two al-relative to the taxation of im taking the only means they know posits and telegraphic transfers reason of the fact that the prices which they can quote are parlers abruptly
leged deserters from the American ported goods into China, ended of to increase their jurisdiction. and, further, that the Bank would very touch lower than those which can be given by the Greece and the Kemalists (the 15th Infantry Regiment had a with the weak admission that if We must look at what has been be in a position to re-open and Nationalist Govern prosaic sequel last week, when Canton's action was not actual-done, and by their past acts in assume business on or before agents of any other country. In Canton even, we have Anzora
ment) at each other's throats. Ptes. A. E. Norma sud Henry Ir a violation of the letter of the Chins nobody can condemn them. March, 1922. The cable further heard that a large amount of business in going to the Then followed a string of coalict Muncie left Shanghai for Tien Treaties it may well be argued The people of the south believe stated that the High Courts of simply by reason of this fact. Of course, it will be ex-ing cables. Athens telling us that tsin under a military escort. The that it is & serious infringement in the and that is all that Justice in England had raised no tremely interesting to see whether they can give delivery Greece was putting it all over prisoners left the Shangbai Nan of the spirit and intention of should matter to us.
There be enemy, while the commun: king railway station by the 9.30 the pledges given therein. In within anything like a reasonable space of time.
It might not be possible to accord of the Bank's petition filed in are many who think that the German houses will be unable quarks as hand-pressed, and train for the North and were in any case we draw attention to official recognition on the part of England.
the Greeks as hard-pressed; and charge of Sergeant Bateman and the matter as being one which Hongkong; that much is already From a perusal of such to execute a large proportion of the orders they have it is not positive yet which is the Lavelle. Before proceeding to requires to be seriously consider understood by the Cantonese; but telegrams booked, but that is small consolation when one considers true version. The Greeks accorded Tien:sin 200 two
Tino an ovation the other day brought before Mr. F. J. Schuhl, now be taking place between the deal more friendliness and sym- official
were ed in any discussions that may it should be possible for a great formation that in the meantime very few orders are being given to
when he returned in the character the Commissioner, at the U. S. Powers others.
the recognised pathy to be shown by the people sources,” In the opinion of one commercial man, who has spent of a victorious general, though Court, to be formally handed Government of Chins in regard here towards those in Canton. affidavit went on to state, I sm
own part in the campaign
to the Army authorities. to a revision of the Customs There is
that nothing to prevent convinced
the French a good nuniber of years in China and whose judgment cab has been limited.
About the Major C. P. Halcomb. U. S. tariff."
British merchants being friendly authorities, including the highest be relied upon, it will first be necessary for British same time the Angora Goveru District Attorney, gave notice
in outward show as they are political and financial person- Why no advocate the matter manufacturers to reduce their prices before they can ment conferred special distinc- that, after the military authorities being taken up at Washington 7/already friendly in inward spirit.alities, are entirely in favour of big revival tions upon Mustapha Kemal, had disposed of the charges of Hub! Comment like that the Hongkong newspapers as: Bakh Cabinet has approved And there is nothing to prevent the reconstruction of my said expert anything in the nature of in the business they are doing out East. He could who took the opportunity to desertion see no other way out of the present depression. And Another report represents bath/Maccie and Norman, both would [vising the League of Nations to erant towards things Cantonese such reconstruction and, further,
about as effective as strongly ad-whole being a little more tol French he told the story that firm in Sweden
dead-beat. I criminal charges of gaol-break pass a law forbidding cockboys facts Are that, manufacturing a certain line of machine tools and noteworthy
for good criticism, but I'm Paye Bas has consented to carry false pretences in the case of the
for justice into the bargain. out such re-organisation and re- sending them to England, where they were stamped with whereas conflicts between the ing and obtaining property under to wear wrist watches in their than they have been. I'm all that the Banque de Paris et de Turks and the Balkan countries prisoner Muncie white bie com- Canton basus' cracked, let English names and issued at revised prices. Now, bave usually been waged on the panion was accused of gaol-alone broken, any treaty, and a the north will never get the work-fact that in the near future mor Sarely folks here realise that construction, all points to the Sweden imports most of its coal from England and the latter's sail, Greece has carried breaking and committing a mar-government has the right to im- ing co-operation of the south (us-said, Bank will be in a positicu workers get high rates of pay and there is very little in the campaign into the enemy's derous assault on Mr. G. J. Eng. pose Day duty it likes, provided less the present bad gang are to repay its creditors in full ani favour of Sweden (apart from a slight advantage in territory in Asia Minor; and that
it doesus' break some previous all fired) and could only get to re-establish its prestige in the agreement. This new taxation control by the aid of foreign help East." exchange) in the way of producing cheap machine tools of the Angora party, although not the "official" Government of
of Canton's is on luxuries, no" and that would be bad. The worst It was pointed out by Mr. good quality. British manufacturers are still trying to Turkey, is apparently more get high profits as compared with pre-war times, but they virile institution than the of
machinery, piece-goods, flour and dishonesty is honesty for policy's Jenkin that if the Order previous foundations rubbed the like. Our other must soon realise that in their competition with the Constantinople regime. Perhaps shoulders with the youth of the taxation goes on baccy and booze. position must surely realise that finued, this would give creditors
suke. Everybody who studies they uade by His Lordship were con commercial agencies of other countries they must cut those Greece has gained some advan- proletariat as some ultra Why shouldn't Canton do the is it wise to continue bolstering up and contributories the right to prosts down to a reasonable level. It is not beside the tage, but the troops are showing democratic leaders are now fond
minded? the north when it has proved to come to Court and have the peti- restlessness at being detained of terming the workers by way of The new daties point to mention that in the matter of modern organisa- with the colours so long, and the emphasising class antagonisms nothing because the old daty of ruption out of which has come submitted that on that account break be a hive of weakness and cor- tion restored to the list. Counsel tion British manufacturing firms have a lot to learn from Athens Government, which not Happily. these were little in other nations. who have put into practise the lessons of long since informed the Powers evidence at New Romney, and per cent. ad valorem is the China's present bad state? Would there would be no harm in ad- proper custome rate, the old daty it no be wiser to give a fair journing the. matter until standardisation and mass production which were learned that things had reached a pass one can credit the delight of his of 234 per cent. is for "transit chance to a party which by its January, and this. Mr. Jenkin It is not enough that British goods risk, is now wore disposed to advocate of bringing people to Canton government is free to enlisted the active and enthusias necessity for coming into Court
where the fight must go on to a Royal Highness, who is a keen does azid for during the war.
the rest the own acts of good government has pointed out, would obviste the should retain their merit-they have always had that-but consider a settlement. it is necessary that in a competing world great regard
The Duke, it seems, was prompted put a luxury tax on what it tic support of the people it is and making further applications should be paid to the price at which those goods are offered. The New Spirit.
to the idea by witnessing a foot chooses. That's their standpoint governing. The attitude of the from time to time.
people reflect It was a capital idea on the ball match between Westminster
government's This is more a matter for the Home offices than it is
Replying to His Lordabip, the part of the Duke of York to invite School and a team of lads from a But, as George Eliot saya, some worth; the attitude of the Can Registrar (Mr. H. A. Nisbet) said for the men out here on the spot. One recognises that po butulted Fablic School boys neighbouring steel works. Several folk's tongues are like the clocks tonese to the Canton Government, he had no objections to offer, and labour unrest, the bigh rates of pay that are being and like number of workshop seasons ago a club sent a chal ran on striking, not to tell you the like of hasus bean seen. Mr. Jenkin said there wES DO demanded and high freights are handicaps agalost which lads to spend a holiday at a sports lenge to the famous school at the time of day, but because
Now Hongkong, fair play'e a objection by the creditors. there is little remedy just now But in the long run there camp at New Romner: Kent, on Vincent "Square, to which the there's something wrong wit the jewel, As governments go, the His Lordship made the order Or to carTY од the government of South Chios is Fes in the terms of the application, muat be an aim to cheapen the price, especially in the the site of the old Littlestown Westminster captain-replied inside.
Aerodrome. The headmasters and Elon we know, Harrow we simile of the Pomeranian, there an infant. It's still on the bottle giving leave to orèditors, or, ta matter of machinery and such like products. Quality employers randily fell in with the know: Charterhouse we know: are those who consider it and that's no fault. But for any person interested, to apply there still must be, but with that there should go reason scheme, and fur a week the youth, but who are se7" A better spirit their special prerogative to run heaven's sake give over teasing ex parte by summons for restors
out and bark at particular in- while she's feeding. "able prices as well.
of Eton, Harrow, and a number prevails now,
tion of the petition to the listë
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terest to all British commercial concerns. It has previously to be gradually shaping them-
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objection to further adjournments
and from ia- received From
and wall-authorised Mr. Montargis's