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MONDAY, JULY 27, 1925,
DAY BY DAY,
LIBERTY 16 FROM GOD'; LIBER TIES FROM THE DEVIL,Auer- bach.2
Let us add that public meetings are by no means the best mediums through which to discuss unusual situations, especially at a time when normality has still 'to be reached. In such circumstances it is relative-: ly ansy to secure, the endorsement The rate of the dollar on de- of policies which might in calmer and to-day is 2a. 3,15/16d. moments be considered inexpedient. We have only to recall the big standar, to-day is the Foast of According to the Old Chinese German-exclusion meeting in the the Heavenly Gifts (Tien Theatre some fow years back tok'uang-chick). establish that point. However, some useful purpose may be served by to-night's gathering.. but that will necessarily be in ratio to the reasonability of attitude shown by those present on the various ques- tions to be brought forward,
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The steamship Slavio, Prince, from New York, sailed from Karatau, Japan on 25th instant, and is expected to arrive here on 29th instant.
FINGER-PRINTS AND SATURDAY'S WEDDING.
FACES.
SOME REGISTRATION IDEAS,
[DY "OYNICUs."]
SERGEANT DYER AND MISS GRACE BOTT.
A largely attended wedding was To register or not to register, Kennedy Road, on Saturday after-
celebrated in the Union Church,...: that is the question. Whether a noon, when Sergeant WA. Dyer, finger print on the quail in aspic of Central Police Headquarters, Rossini is worth two on the Tournedo, was married to Miss Grace Bott, Lap it be clearly understood Thursday on the s.8. Macedonia. who had arrived the previous that I fully realise that merely The bridegroom is the son of Mr. rogistoring for sweet registration's and Mrs, W. W. Dyor of North- anke is not at all the sort of thing wood, England, and the bride a we want. What we really nood daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Bott, is a sort of definite car-marking of Gulldborough, Northampton. proooks (pock marking might be usefully employed) which will by the Rev. J. Horace Johnstone,
The ceremony was performed " immediately reveal the character B. A, and Principal Warder W. ofa domestic, who, after umpteen Y. Robertson gave the bride away, The Hongkong Hotel is carry. years' faithful service, finds him Mrs. Robertson being the mat- ing on as usual and this morning solf seeking a job owing to hieron of honour. Sergosat C. J. sawa further stop towards late master having departed to
Kiugdon, Home Comment.
Hongkong Dormality when Mac's Cafeteria take up a Government position at
Police, Wombley, or something of the WAS bost mar. The arrival of newspapers from -opened.
Tho bride sort don't you know.
was charmingly dressed in prim- Home at the close of lust. week in
The whole thing is so simply with hat to match, and carried a roao and heliotrope georgette, The forthcoming wedding is an awful, or rather, to be correct, bouquet of pink roses. She also which appeared comment on the pounced of Mr. Charles Henry awfully simple, that one hardly present situation in China, led one Thompson, mercantile, marine knows where to start, so to speak groom's gift. Mrs. Robertson wore wore a pearl necklace, the bride- to appreciate, the fact that the officer, of the s.8. Anhui, to Miss
"All you have to do," said & responsible daily and weekly press Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Mary Adelaide Rose, of No. 311 savvy bird, the other day, "is to Pretty dress of mauve georgette." are kept tolerably well informed of
take photographs and finger- The reception was held at the prints, attach them to a card, and residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ro- happening and movements here.
The following appointments there you are." Exactly where burtaon, the pawly-married couple Of course," the Socialist and have been made in the Kowloon you were, this same master mind leaving later for Repulse Bay for
Division of The St. John Am-unfortunately forgot to mention, the honeymoon. Irresponsible schools of journalism bulanco BrigadePrivates A. C. but in al probability bo meant going-away dross was of blue Mrs. Dyer's always revel in abusing authority Greaves and J. H. Maycock to althe Bessie's Bar" or the now Shantung and crepe do chine.
"Bird Cage Lounge." bo Lance Corporals DEATH.
and in attempting to justify law-
There was a large number of What I contend is, if we are to presents, many from Home, which lessness on the plea of liberty.";
have registration, for goodness were much admired. BECKE-F. G. Becko, at No. and there is no need to take their themselves
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The Telegraph
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U. S. TRADE IN CHINA,
by their. hesitant sako don't let's have any pro 1. Victoria Garden. Kowloon, latest utterances regarding China policy, by which they have not crastination in the preparation of agod 74, for 44 years in Chinese
our registration legislation. Il Maritime Customs, Funeral will very seriously. One can happily only accomplished nothing but think that's clear. pass the monument at 5 pm.contrast such vapourings with the have also helped to prolong the
After all, everybody has a to-day.
following, from an editorial in a foolish agitation now in progress they ever got all jumbled up finger-print and a face, and if widely, read and respected weekly Apparently they fear either to togother-woll, we'd be in no end GOVERNMENT LEG SLATES MARRIAGE..
journal: --- "The extra-territorial anger the students and other of a mese. Just imagine the vast ..FOR MERCHANTS. ROBSON HARRIS. At Lan-rights enjoyed by foreigners in agitatons or arouse the displeasure Now, if on the other hand, some- sinount of face we should lose.. don on July 25th, 1925, William China are the natural outcome of of the Powers.
Tho United States Congress Unfortunately, body invented a series of signs recently passed an amendment to H. C. Robson only son of Mr. and contact between races with different such a policy can have only one of an applicant for the post of the provisions of which has been and passes, a brief examination the China Trade Act, a copy of Mrs. J. J. Robson, of Kowloon Docks, to Grace E. K. Harrie, social, religious and judicial translation. It is evident that while fah wrong would reveal whether sont to us. This Act authorises daughter of the late J, Harris and jaystems. Powerful foreign Govern-their sympathies are with their he had ever, squeezed a handful the creation of corporations for Mrs. Harris of London (By cable) ments may use the special treaty disgruntled
of bis late master's pet fertilizer. the purpose of engaging in "busi- countrymen they his might be indicated by a ness with China. An introductory rights, acquired by their nationals realise the folly of the demands small representation of a bad note to the enactment, just pub- for, bad and oppressive purposes; made and the impossibility of their smell delicately tatooed on the lished by the U. 8. Department but that does not, in itself, condemn being realized. There has conge-finger-print which would provide The purpose of this legislation
back of his neck. Show me the of Commerce, states the system of granting foreigners quently been a process of delay such essential information? is to give urgently needed relief special rights and exemptions, by which the points demanded
In the case of a "boy" who to American morchants engaged The 1922 Treaty has put an end to bave been whittled down until bird's aye view of Tai-Tam-Tuk China. Before the European War watored his master's sherry, in the development of trade with the danger of foreign intervention they are but half their former engraved on his solar plexis would there were only three or four in China, and, if all that the leaders magnitude. They still comprise probably knook the wind out of important American firma Idoated of the present movement demand many absurdities, however, and others, and gladden the heart of foreign trade amounted to but 6 his sails, aot as a deterrent to in China, and our share of China's It is, in our opinion, to be re-were conceded, the outcome would while the agitating section gretted that the sponsors of this simply be that the foreign trade of China continues to pester the
of the most meticulous registration-per cont., the batsped going to
alist.
Great Britain, Germany, France, evening's public meeting, to be held China would disappear, and that the authorities the real issues that who picks and chews (es), but I to other countries. With the cur It is all very well for the man and Japan, with small amounts at the City Hall, did not see fit to native Chinese merchants of the can be decided internationally are don't believe in that sort of thing tailment of European compétition let the community know well in Treaty porta-a most honourable being clouded and their settle having once lost a gold fillag as a in the Far East during the war, advance precisely the subjects and respected class of men-would ment postponed. It is time that thousands and thousands of fin- gain a substantial foothold in the result. What I mean is, there are American merchants were able to which are to come up for considera-be overwhelmed by the present dis-this, feature of the trouble
beger-prints and faces in Hongkong, foreign commerce of China, our tion. After all, there was no parti- order and ruined." That is a done away with, and the clear-and after all, its a bit of a problem portion at the present time being cular reason for the hurried con sample of the very sound comment cut policy of China be officially what with all this washing-up and less than 6225,000,000, in 1925. to know one's own Anger-print, nearly 161 per cent., or slightly vening of the gathering, and it to be found in many of the papers promulgated. The waiting game one thing and another. But when There has been a very large in- would surely have been far better
It comes to differentiating between oroass in the number of Ameri- the wash amah's digit and the can firme operating in Chins, all
MONDAY, JULY 27, 1925.
TO-DAY'S MEETING.
to hand.
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if the specific resolutions to be sub-fairly general realisation of the
There is, we think, a has been played over-long....
A case in point is the delega-gammy thumb, of the market of whom are actively engaged in mitted had been announced several days before the meeting through
real underlying reason for all the tion to Tuản Chi-jul reported on coolie, well, as George Washing puebing the sale of American ton would have said had he been products. Among the larger present trouble-a clearer realisa-Saturday. In reply to various the medium of the local Press. In!
a Scotsman: "I hae ma doots!"items" of our exports to China, tion, perhaps, than we enjoy out urgings, Tuan declared that the I do feel that something, misht including Hongkong and Kwan- that event, there would have been here because of our being so closely Government was doing Its best. be done. Why not let the trafo tung leased territory, during the full and ample opportunity for the
renaming it for the nonce-calendar year 1923 were the fol concerned with and absorbed by the that good progress public to form definite conclusions minutiae of inconveniences and made, and so forth. Conciliation, domestics cat, and if satisfactory, tures, $30,600,000; mineral oile was being ("terrific) department try all our lowing: Tobacco and manufac on the subjects and come to the losses arising from the disorder. Perhaps, but obvious weakness, affix a number plate front and and greases, $25,400,000 wheat meeting prepared to express col-
People at Home have a detached When the representatives of the After all, most of our flour, 820,800.000 wheat, 87,000,- sidered opinions on the issues. "As
"boys
are used to carrying [000; cotton, unmanufactured, matters are, the time permitted for
view of us and China just as we students, workers, and merchants plates, and I'm perfectly sure 84,200,000: lumbor, $2,800,000; have a detached and "bird's-eye" requested the remitting of funds that another little plate would'nt iron and steel manufactures, .
do them any harm. Perhaps $8,100,000; machinery: $5,100,000; view of them, Perhaps there is to the Shanghai strikers, as an compromise would be effected if electrical machinery and ap- now published cover a wide field, more than we seem to realise, in official act of encouragement, the ardent registrationalists were paratus, $1,500,000;
codi-tor and it is conceivable that some
the widespread belief Home that all Tuan replied that this might to swop finger-prints and photo dyes, $2,400,000; and paper
graphs with each other. This manufactures, $2,000,000. the troubles from which China is cause a misunderstanding with the would preserve for posterity thef people may not agree with them in their entirety, although for very
suffering arise from the fact that Powers"-no doubt--and sug-greatness of their thought and at
the same time, keep them out of] obvious renaons such dissentients the present regime lacks the rell-gested instead that the Chamber mischief. would hesitate to raise an opposing lous basis from which all authority of Commerce might be instructed voice in public meeting. As to the China has been derived for two to "devise means of support for need for correcting wrongful im-thousand years, and which was the the needy" which seems a neat pressions formed at Home in regard Eastern equivalent to what in the way of getting out of the awkward to the Hongkong situation and the West, is called a national sense. position. But the day of healt
a study of the questions has been
of the briefest: The resolutions as
Of course, I don't claim for a moment that I've exhausted the subject, although it's pretty near ly exhausted me. But I think it will be agreed that I've shown that there's more in registration then appears on the surface of
SHIPPING BOARD VESSELS.
Another Protest Lodged.
Chinese crisis generally, we fully There are many at Home who think ancy is past, and it is high time the thumbprint-and, I'd bettor to the Manila Bulletin dated
agree that extremist and misinform that those who concentrate their Turan and other Peking headmen loave it at that,
ed views need combating, and it attention on the Tuchugs, the declared definitely whether ther is perhaps as well that the opinions students and the treaties are but are for or against the strike
OBITUARY.
An Associated Press mosaago
Washington, July 16, statos ~~. The Boston. Iron and Metal: Company of Baltimore to-day formally protested against the
Board vessels for scrapping, hold-
of this Colony thereon should be considering the symptoms and for-movement, with its boycotts and forwarded to Home journals, At getting the disease the absence other sidelines. The Chinese Gov. DEATH OF MR. F. G. BECKE, receiving of new bids for Shipping the same time, we do not overlook to-day of an operative and living ernment must either be in favour We regret to record tho deathing that it violated the original the fact that there are many earnest moral and ethical system to guide of the agitators, or opposed to Kowloon, this morning of Mr. Salvage Company of New York st No. 1 Victoria Gardens, advertisement, The Watersido men in England just now who have and inspire, national and individual their campaign, One or two of F. G. Booke, at the advanced age another original bidder, took the first-hand knowledge of the issues conduct. That is gotting very near the military commanders have of seventy four years, same stand, and demanded that and who are doing champion service to the fundamentals the recently shown that they disapprove Mr. Booke was for forty-four to-day a bide be rejected, now years on the outsido. staff of the advertisement be published and of the policy which is proving ao Chinese Maritimes Customs and new bide be called for harmful to Chinese interests. Tetired 'only a few years ago. He Honry Ford offered $1,700,000 was very well-known on the for 200 United States Shipping et the politicians and representa Chine Coast. He has boon ill for Board vessels for scrapping come tivos of the Central administra- some weeks
pared with pasos 1,370,000 bíð
in this regard, whilst the frequent situation. statements made in Parliament on behalf of the Foreign and Colonial Offices have done much to counter the superficial assertions made la Labour circles.
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