THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI
TIIURSDAY, JULY 17,·· 1924.
NANNING SEIZED.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
BY ROBERT POWER
BY DR. SUN'S TROOPS.
TWO-MINUTE TALKS A Daily Tonlo
FAMILY FRIENDS,
Opium-the-Real-Attraction- (Sperint in "Telegraph.")
"A friend in need is a friond lawyer" with lamontable results. indend" but unhappily there are "Talking it over ends in an "friends," wo could well do ohsenring of the real point at Nanning has once more fallen without. It is so easy to label issue, until a dangerous decision into the hands of Dr. Sun's oneself a "friend" withonit pats is accepted with, wretched re-followers. On the 25th of June, ing to consider whether the title suits.
taking advantage of the fact that is desorvod.
the Governor, Luk Wing-teng. Family "friends" of this Families have their "friends" character are the curse of roul was shut up in Kweilin, and that who attach thomsolf like 4 unity and peaco. Thoy should Fuk-choung were able to make a noither General Taam nor Luk parasitic growth. If there is bad to shunned you miny Homove, an army of about 4,000 nows or trouble of any kind, they ho ablo 10 turn them oni come flocking like ravens to the of your house
troops, commanded by Gonerats. with violence. Сателне These are the curious bat
Wong and Lei, arrived in Nausing IL perips
littlo dis. people who give point to the couragement will
and took possession without) casso tem striking a single blow. About pont's lines, Banqueting on to alliction if it touches not them come. If nucusuncy, be brusque commandoered motor boats and a
Bee they are not wol-
16,000 men came up in, twenty-five, selves,"
They soom to fuge__with-their-to-the-point of rudenesscellaneous collection of alber morbi love of
other people's Far better their room than their river craft, while the rest marelat wires" and under the guise of company if it means that the friend-hip coms round with their price is discord and misunder Toverland. sympathy and, combulance. Nor standing.
do they forget to advise. It must
When in doubt about your next meal try
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QUALITY, VALUE, In some ways it was with a
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CLE
DOWN of the
have beon fram such miscalled There are family friends who people saw their city taken passi "friends" that a sufferer asked are rout friends, indead. We all session of so peaceably. Thurs of us have experienced thoir kind-had been dreadful ruuiour of a todu "saved."
Whonsiege Such "friunds", are adepts in ness and faithfulness. the act of making is understand. troublo descends like a dark plaid sufferings of the people ings devalop into open quar. upon a hams they are the first to Kweilin was making their
Thay adviseemnes,help, Phat-is-the distinguishing blood run coki. menning ofstinacy, and rehearse mark between the true and the papers from Canton, anticipating why the other false friends, and wa may say events, were already reporting person in the wrong. The indood-be-their-fruitsys-shall the commencement-of-tho-siege simple dispute thus develops in know them."
and the fabulous prices paid by
rela
Isny roason-
Chinose news-
to a first-class vendetta: Judgo The friend who earns the title the inhabitants of Nanning for said a few days ago, "This is of the "family helper" is a trea-o picul of rice or two buckets of one of those cases where kind suro. Chorich such: they are water. So that when the soldiers friends have interferod and made sometimes lost before they are marched in and made themselves a tritte into a mountain.
Fally value. If you do not make at home without any prolimitury "Friends" who Bock to the the most of them white you have trouble. thn people resigned houses of others are usually very their help, you may live to want themsolves to their fate in silence. profitie in giving advice. It may them when they are gone. The good to often it is either family friend, worthy of the name} foolish or had. There are many is too great a possession to bef who find a great plans are in act lightly esteemed or cast aside info well they remember the
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sort of "poor man's thoughtlessness.
SHARE MARKET.
LONDON QUOTATIONS.
A
PAST HORRORS.
But it is the silence of despair.
horrors of the Cantonese Occupa tion of 1921, when both Tummaneve and Canton troops scoured the US NAVAL CRUISE,sighbourhood, fighting here and there with Kwangsi soldiers or against infuriated villagers, who cant out, both men and women. to say nothing of mere children, armed with pitchforks, chopping and fought like tigers to save their knives and other instraments,
VISIT TO HOLLAND,
Mosers. G. P. and
The Hague, July 16 Lammert advise us that they are in tise American squadron visit- Adlinical MacCully, command-
.FL.
in receipt of the following cabieding Dutch waters, accompanied homes and flair daughters from
quotations from their London Agents this morning
Shell Transport, 789 buyers S14 sefiera.
Mexican Eagles; • H1y/buy-
ers; tå 1g sollers.
the commanders of thela horrible fate. Wyoming, Arkansas and others
SERVICE.
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STRIKES
Ask your friends how they solved the cooking. ques- tion during the general strike of servants in 1922. Those who had gas stoves will tell you what a boon
· they found gas during that trying time.
Strike periods, however, are not the only times in which to discover the advantages of gas cooking,
Install a gas cooker NOW and you will soon rea- lise the truth of this.
Prices from $65.00 · or Hire from $1.00 per month.
There are many twines in of the spradron officers, paid an↑ Nanning and the surrounding efficiat visit to the Minister of country, where parents have Marins, and later called on the never seen nor heard of their Burgonmster of the Hague. The young daughters since the American Naval attache in the summer of 1921. There are old afternoon gave J Luncheon L 201 crippled for life. who Admiral MacCully and his suite. were seized by Canterre soldiers the the Minister of Marine, and and compelled to carry hravy following cable quotations o! 14 number of Dutch naval loads of tool until they fell faint- Shanghai stocks (reath thoir authorities.
ing by the roadside, where they were kicked and thrashed untit they staggered up again and) JEMONSTRATION, made un more desperate effort
SHANGHAI QUOTATIONS
Mussra. 131- and Co. have kindly supplied
with 174
Shanghai aflice:
Langkats tromb.) TIs.
buyurs,
Ewos. Ths, 11, buyera.
Shanghai
buyurs.
Docks. Tls, Jon
New Engineerings. Tis. 63 i, buyers,
Orientals. Tls. 3.49, buyers Shanghai Calfun. The 36. buyers.
AERIAL SURVEYS,
Reuter.
PHILIPPINES
LEGISLATURE.
MESSAGE FROM
GOVERNOR GENERAL.
Manila, duly 17.
CALL MY LANE, CRAWFORD'S, OR OUR SIRow Rooms WEST POINT. FOR
PRACTICAL
to march along beside the HONGKONG & CHINA GAS Co., Ltd.
masters.
Later on, they erupt
back to Nauning and came to the Hospital for treatment. One particular case comes to mind of
an elderly a an with an abscess the size of a basin on his back The Legislatur opened its where he had been hit with the ninety-day session, Governor butt of a rifle when he fell down General Wood sent a massage exhausted.
briely unging the passage of i Are those genes to be suce numerous menstiges, thrown out more repeated ? Are the vill-
In the F. M. S. Forest admini-by the last session to better agors to he left weeping in their
it is economic conditions. Renters
stration report for 1923 statedNothing more was done
empty homes, whil hungry soldiers steal their precious bags
over
in comection with aerial surveys Bunneso mangrover swamps, of seed stored up for the next but it is hoped! that the which are ajoró estensive than planting and cook the sieg matter will receive further consours, but are as yet in a very a fire composed of the wretched sideration on the arrival of the early stage of development, are farmer's own bed boards, naval aeroplane in Singapore.ulready being surveyed from the It is of interest
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note the air.
THE HUMAN ZOO.
LOVES
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KELAP
The met the vers
BRING
THE VERY
DRAMATUREY UMEINE
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"Oh, Jimmy! We couldn't take mother to see that. It's far tou sophisticated for her."
NO USEFUL PURPOSE.
ان alle
One wonders, too, if there will be those constant enunter- 61lack" around the city when every day brought its wounded until the hospital wards were full to over- flowing, and verandahs, and odd comers hd all to be given over to the sufferers. Some of them were certainly fine men, and on-
ured agony without evon murmur or a groan. Others bad; complutely fast their narve, and I remember one stalwart Hunkiese sitting up in bed and howling in- cessuntly for "mor-plice, mor pheo," to ease his pain. But the Fad part of the whole business is that there is nothing gained by all this needloss fighting and kill- ing and suffering.
There is just one reason for thei extraordinary eagerness in tako possession of Nanning, and it is summed up in one word opiumu. The revone from the opium which pason through Nanning is enormous, und, for this reason, Naming is a prize to su snatched by the strongest and hold as long as possible, it remains to bo nout
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