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Hongkong Telegraph
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No. 12,750
SINGAPORE'S NAVAL AND AERIAL BASES.
Free Sites Granted by the Colony.
Renter's Service.)
London, July 11. Loud cheers greeted the announcement by Mr. Amery in the House of Commons, in reply to Mr. F. G. Penny, that the Duke of Devonshire had received, a message from the Governor of the Straits Beitlements that, with the concurrence of Unofficis: members of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony, sites for a naval base and an aerodrome at Singapore would be acquired by the Gov vernment of the Colony and handed over as a free gift
A message has been sent to the Governor expressing the Imperial Government's warm appreciation of this very generous and welcome patriotic gift.
Discussion in House of Lords.
Loudon, July 11.
OUR TELEPHONES.
London Directors Offer Counter-Proposals
DISPUTE STILL UNSETTLED. •
/THURSDAY,
JULY 12: 1923. 3日九七月五)
THE TEACHING OF PORTUGUESE.
An Outspoken Opinian.
DEATH OF MRS. D. E. DONNELLY.
Passes Away in London."
she
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We are glad to
Exema Club...
212 800 Previously recvd £10 &-
Total £10 & $1,012
fre de "We are glad to-day 10 suROUDCS that the Telegraph London Hos. "We have received the follwing It is with much regret that we pital Fund now exceeds the $1,000 have to record the death of Mrs mark, as the result of a most letter for publication:-
Sir-Is it not about time some Donnelly, wife of Mr. D. Egratifying contribution raised by one bonestly tried to clear the air Donnelly of Messrs. Donnelly the Easms Club totalling $212, It must be fresh in the memory regarding this question of compul- and Whyte, which occurred in for which we tender our thanks. of most of our readers that there sory teaching of language Any London on Sunday last. The and The Fund now stands :--- was casiderable controversy less one who has been resident in this news was received by cable in than a year ago over the question Colony at all knows perfectly well Hongkong, to-day. of the local telephone service, that to call the Portuguese lair Mrs. Donnelly left Hongkong The company operating in Hong-guage the mother tongue if thefin September last for Home, and kong desired to raise the rates local Portuguere is ridiculous to it was her intention later on to considerably, but this the authori the extreme. The vast majority of join her husband at Victoria, ties opposed, and eventually socalled Portuguesesparka patois, British Columbia, where final statement of the Govern mixture of pure Portuguese, intended settling down with her THE TRAIN OUTRAGE. In the House of Lorde, propusing a resolution expressing the ment's terms was made.
Malay and Chinese. Only in sa four children, then at school in academic way could the Porta-England. In February, another Opinion that the contemplated naval and air expenditure was dis.
At a meeting of the Legisle-guess be at all useful. Teach the child was born, serious proportionste, Lord Wimborne criticised the Singapore scheme. tive Council lant October,
Lord Linlithgow warmly championed it, as being by far the there was unanimously passed sters pure Portuguese and they Mrs. Donnelly was compelled to present-day Portugueseung-operation following, and later. hsapest way of rendering British seapower effectiv in the Far
# resolution moved by the , and remarked that the British Parliament and the country Colonial Secretary, which stated, would become a living royaach go to a nursing home suffering How many of from malignant malaria. Last would learn with a very lively sense of gratitude and pride of fee in part, that no new agreement our so-called Portuguese me the west, a cable was received that the recent bandit outrage on the edit of free sites by the Government of the Straits Settlement. Even shall be entered upon between Portu zuese section of the Lusitano she was dangerously ill, and the Canton-Kowloon Railway is that assuming that the battleship became obsolete, aeroplanes would need the Company (the China and Club library? Very few indeed. asd news was communicated that the Civil Governor has Japan Telephone and Electro It is the English section that is to ber busband, who had offered a reward of $10,000 to Lord Haldane said it was very nice to be able to dominate the Co, Ltd.,) and the Government,
gone to Victoris in order military or citizen saldier forces. acific, but the command of the air. was more urgent than naval unless the Company is prepared.
most used.
to meet his wife on her which succeed in capturing the to accept the rates of subscription If then, pure Portuguese can. Lord Salisbury, replying, said it was part of our fundamental;
A condition of the reward in bligation to provide for the defenos of all the Dominions, He, recommended," Those rates were not be used in the bones, will it arrival there. It is feared, how-rabbers cancarded in the hold-up.
recommended in a report furaish-be useful in offices? Decidedly ever, that he cannot possibly oidentally, expressed the profound satisfaction of the Governmented by the telephone committee of nat, in this Colony at least. I have reached Bagland in time that the booty taken away by the
bandits must also be recovered. at France was taxing the necessary steps to ratity the washington the joint Chambers of Commerce, think these boys and girls ought to see his wife alive.
The deceased lady, wbo
base in the Far East...
Power.
Teement.
FRENCH RATIFIES WASHINGTON TREATY.
Naval Committee Not Satisfied.
to their parente.
on
the learn
Canton Governor Offers Reward.
The latest news in regard to
PEKING POLITICS.
and proposed an annual subscripto concentrate tion ranging from 384 last year ing of good English. the most was still comparatively young, Dur- to $120 in 1926, subject to the useful language in after life. It was a Shanghai girl.
ing her residence in the committee being satisfied that is rubbish to think that a boy or Accounts submitted and service girl
learn two or three Colony she made numerous conditione justfied the same. languages in any way perfectly, friends, being or a bright and kindly disposition. All who Incidentally, the Company's Instead; they only, acquire & agreement Automatically expires hideous mixture of each. I would knew her greatly appreciated The Presidential Struggle
in 1930,
Paris, July 11. The Senate by 267 to 3 has adopted the Washington naval and cific treaties.
Speaking on behalf of the Naval Committea, M. Lemery greased in the merated disadvantages under the Treaty. He declared that
"I
CAR
bumbly advise cur ultra-patriclic Portuguese to forget their
her sterling qualities, and the news of her death will
Peking, July 11. General Hsiung, Ping chi ́ is
MOTOR MEETING.
To Be Held at: Hongkong Hotel.
The response to the Telegraph's appaat for names of those interested in the suggested Hongkong motor car and cycle trials has been so large that we have now decided to hold the meeting on Tuesday next at the Hongkong Hotel instead of in the Telegraph offices.
The meeting will con sider the desirability af arranging local contests, discuss some of the sug: gested trials "and
most likely fix a date for the competitions.
A cordial invitation to be present is extended to all car and cycle
motor
owners.
TO-DAY.
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