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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925.
THE MOROCCO WAR.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925.
who
DAY BY DAY,
by the European manufacturers of lethal weapons, and the encourage- ment given to rebels by the dis- gruntled elements at home. The
WHOEVER LIVES LOOKING FOR PLEASURE ONLY, HIS SENSES UN- French are having to contend with CONTROLLED, IMMODERATE IN
Socialists so-called
have HIS ENJOYMENTS, IDLE AND opposed their every move in the WEAK. THE TEMPTER WILL OER- TAINLY OVERCOME HIM AS THE campaign and a section of whom WIND BLOWS DOWN A TREE.— have gone so far as to send Buddha, messages of approval to the Riff. The rate of the dollar on leader, Abd el Krim. Remember mand to day is 26. 4.5/16d. ing the somewhat similar action by British Communists with regard to
There were two cases, of the crisis in China, we can under-phold favor reported yesterday.
one Chiuose and one Indian.
stand the difficulties of the French Government, and extend to it our sympathy in a portentous stage of its administration,
י,
CORRESPONDENCE.
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
Schools Football."
SOVIET AND SOUTH AFRICA.
NEGOTIATING WOOL PURCHASES.
Cape Town, Aug. 19. The Ministerialist organ, Dié
Sir-In reply to "Wanderer"Burger understands that the 1.-I do assert that the bad Russian Government has "Informed de-football was mainly due to the Trade Commissioner on the con- sportsmanship in local school Mr. Plenaar, the South African playing of the matches in comtinent, that Russia will be able to petitive football.
In games play take annually ten millions sterling ty-ed since the disbanding of the worth of fine South African morino
Longue there has been a notice.
wool. The Soviet Government is ably improved spirit.
2-ke incompetent control of prepared to purchase four million games, I can only speak off-hand sterling worth immediately, provid The Swimming Club at Singa- for Senior Schools League. In ed, six months credit can bo pore has approved the erection of A cor orato and wire-netting practically all games were con making the necessary arrangements, it, to the best of my knowledge, arranged. Mr. Pienaar is now busy olosure, following the recent trailed by dutside referees-mill-Reuter, tragedy, when a lady swimmer tary men. was killed by a shark near the club's diving stage..
4
3. Wanderor" doubts the
zeal of schoolmasters in working CANTON AND PEKING.
up a system of friendly matches.
ROVER.
panies is welcomed. Within the
generated and these should be past few years, forces that threaten our business structure have been brought under control.
AND GEN-CHAN KWING. MING.
PASSENGERS.
To-day's Meeting. We very heartily commend to our readers the meeting which is taking place in Messrs. Jardine, Mathe
A rifle shoot at Singapore last In the past season one senior son's Board Room this evening at Iroquois and the local Volunteers school that it formerly played in week between teame from H.M.S. school in the Colony played every which it is proposed to re-establish resulted in a win for the latter, the league and had five additional the Hongkong branch of the China 458. Conditions were first stage.
by 564 points to the naval men's fixtures. Association, and it is to be hoped. King's Prize, open sights.
4. In that "Wanderer" appears to have respect for British Publio tracts are from the latest Peking The following interesting ex- that there will be a large gather-
School football let him support vernacular newspapera- ing. One has felt for a very long
A dispute over Church matters the effort to have it out bore, not | in Rangoon is having serious throw cold water on it.. It can be ported to have telegraphed tu The Canton Government is re~~ time that Hongkong is unfairly results. A local paper of July dor.. left. out of matters. concerning 28th, raports-This morning the
5-His oxplanation that friend-bers of the South be admitted Peking requesting that two men- China, and we are far too often tection from the police, removed georgraphical difficulties is ingen- Relations Commission..so that Bishop of Rangoon under pro-ly games at Home are due to into the newly organized Foreign looked upon as being people with the furniture and belongings of ious but in correct. School teams effective co-operation could be interests entirely differing from the St... Gabriel's Church. Some op not infrequently travel thirty, made between the two Govern- interests of other Britishers in position was offered by a large forty, fifty miles to play other ment in handling, the Shameen
gathering of the China Just because Hongkong is that led to the assistance of the
congregation schools.
jigeue. In conclusion, I feel sure that a British Crown Colony and not a public being invoked.
most Hongkong schoolmastore munists is said to be the purpose To rid Kwangtung of Com- part of China any longer it is too
appreciate the kindly intentions of General Chan Kwing-ming's often overlooked that for all practi-ner, on August 8th, heard evid-sociation but, though it means visional Government. He is al- Mr. Sennett, the Penang core of the Hongkong Football As demand for money from the Pro- enl purposes we are a part of ence touching the death of a more work for themselves, they legod to have advised the Govern China, tant our trade, and daily were recently wiped out as a re- remain on the present lines. Kwangtung is in the control of Chinese family of seven who prefer local school football to ment that at present the whole of lives are just as indissolubly bound suit of food poisoning. Dr. Bow- Yours, etc...
Communists whose activities are up with China as are the trade yer gave evidence that the reason
directed towards upsetting the and lives of folk living in Shanghai, for the bigh death rate was be- Hongkong, Aur. Oth, 1925,
country, on which soore he has There used to be a Hongkong hours after the patients had oaten cause it was not úalil eighteen
epproached other generals in the south to do away with them. branch of the China Association that they received treatment. It
Stock Exchange Enquiry.
Together with those generals be was discovered that the poison and it was a great pity that it was morphine. After hearing the ment by the Government of a Com-supply of ammunition,, but what Sir. To my mind, the appoint-is eaid to have a fairly ample ever died. The great value of the evidence of a relative who also mission of Enquiry to report as to they need is a large sum of money China Association is that it is taken participated in the meal, the the arrangements at present exist- which is, therefore, demandad a lot of notice of in, England-it murder against some person or stocks and the shares of public com
Coroner returned a verdict of ing in Hongkong for dealing in from the Government. is more or less in the enjoyment persons unknown. Indications of the past few weeks of an official status, and it would have materialised in definite pre- be a valuable asset to Hongkong British Malaye to Dutch territory The smuggling of rubber from parations by the, French and to have within itself a branch of has increased very much of late, Spanish military commanders for a this organisation through which since the price of rubber improv
At present there are
Left Hongkong per s.s. "Mishi- big offensive against the 'Riff mal- we could make such representations Malays are the worst offenders, should suffice and would be easier! Mrs. T. Takahashi, Miss C. 0. ed. It has been proved that the Exchanges, whereas a large one ma Maru" on 19th August, 1925. contents in Morocco. The latest on South China matters to the and the Preventive Service are telegrams. mention the assembly of Home Government as seemed des kept busy in their efforts to patrol to control. Since business in stocks Mr. and Mrs. A. Morrison, Mra Gates, Major J. C. McDonnell, transports for the conveyance of sirable It is Interesting, in pass from Perlis to Singapore. Most recent years, provision for the Mr. and Mrs. T. Adame, Mr. W. sucessfully the long coastline and shares has largely increased in S, O. Mitford, Miss R. P. Corat, Spanish troops, the despatch of ing and as showing the attitude of the smuggling asems to be car admission of more members into Delbridge, French reinforcements bringing of outside. people towards Hong-ried on from Malacca and from one exchange is necessary and a Mr. and Mrs. J. J. H. Whit- these forces in the war area to kong, to note that there is a little the Preventive Service have only should be required from each mem-Hendriksen, Mr. J. Oanwenborgh, the west of Johore. At present security of at least $100,000.00 ton, Mr. G. Porring, Mr. H. M. some 100,000 men by the end of this publication entitled "Who's Who in seven motor boats at their dis-ber. In this connection it has to Dr. and Mrs T. F. Brennan Miss month, and the meeting of Marshal China," and that while all the posal, and although large captures be borne in mind that the Share M. Brennan Miss Anita Brennon Petain, one of France's most dis-prominent men of Shanghai and the need for more patrol boats is because of the restricted member Esron Mrs A. Esron Mrs. are reported to have been made, brokers' Association was formed Mies Suzanno, Mathy Mr Frank tinguished soldiers, with General the Treaty Ports have a place keenly felt. The FM.S. Govern- ship of the Stock Exchange and its Stevewright Miss Lucie Badey Primo di Rivera, who is head of within it, there is no mention of ment bas decided to instal wire refusal to admit Chinese brokers as Rev. Gobriel Reyer Rev. Glete the Spanish military command. Hongkong's prominent - men
less in Kuala Lumpur for the members, and in these enlightened Solidan Miss D. Parter Mr T. purpose of directing police opor-days, it is futile to attempt to up-Harle Mr. H. Lonardson Mr There was recently a junction though many of the commercial ations..
hold such a restraint. The new G. Wilson Mrs. A. between the two commands, and heads here have spent many years
exchange to be a success must be Short Mr V. Evans Mr. F. their co-operation is now, easily in other parts of China. As soon any other nationality which has security required from a member Mr Rykoff Mr. W. M. Arnott Mr cosmopolitan and the substantial W. Mathison Dr. A. Short fissured. Everything points to as a Britisher in China comes to called at Hongkong has to be would enhance its prestige and O. Mikloskonsky Mr Dolgoshein great effort, which the promoters Hongkong (possibly on promotion? forcibly prevented from entering inspire confidence in the public,
Mr Yakhonoff Mr Charasonoff -evidently-intend-shall be an over-the-ceases-to-be-in-China That Canton waters if the announcement In my opinion, forward dealings lieff bffes Sololloff Mr and Mrs Mr Vierjbitsky Mr and Mrs Solo- whelming success. And
can also be eliminated by the Dolotar Mrs Verbinsky Miss is technically true but, for all success it
means anything at all. When the adoption of the cash margin system Zolik Mr Rodjestvensky Dr. G. will no doubt have to be, for both practical everyday purpuses, ab- Canton authorities say that all ruling in foreign exchanges, for Hewer Mr and Mrs Moses and countries concerned. As one of the solutely nonsense. Politically (wo steamers entering the port must be instance, in the New York Stock one infant Miss H., Waslewska tending French." newspapers points mean official politics) Hongkong inspected by a picket of the Anti-completed the day after the order
Exchange, where a transaction is Mr and Mrs Emilio Andres. out, reverse will not be ins't in China even though this Imperialist Union they also forget is executed, or in the London Stock forgiven."
Colony's very existence is at stake that China has entered into Exchange, which requires fort-i Apart
Miss Catherine O. Lim B.A., in China's polities. The position Treaties which prevent that kind systems, too well-known to require of Amoy, lë spending hor holidays nightly settlements. These M.A, Professor of the University. bravery of the North African tribes. is ludicrous and it is because we
of thing. This latest news proves further elaboration, tend men, and their excellent, fighting!
believe that a virile branch of the right up to the hilt that there is eliminate all manipulators of no girl who has gone to America to in the Straits. She is the first qualities which have been utilised Chinu Association here would do
financial standing, thereby curbing from the Straits, and almost the a very real anti-British menace in speculation, which, after all, is the first Chinose girl who took ber by the European nations Now much to counteract the present South China-a menace far greater object of the present Commission degrees over since the Chinoso operating against the Riff-one position that we appeal for a large than is apparently realised at Home. of Enquiry. Enclosing my card, I visited the States. has to note in the present campaign attendance at this afternoon's We learn from the Hon. Mr. P. Hum, etc. the difference which modern arma meeting. It commences at 5.15 p.m. Holyoak that another public meet- ment has made in the effective sharp.
from the
undoubted
'Canton's Action.
even
ing has been called for Tuesday next for the purpose of giving the
.S. W. H.
Hongkong, August 20, 1925.
three
Miss W., Adame,
Illustrating the speed of game birds, a partridge flew into a tele phone wire in Massachussettes
amputatod. The head was found. at a spot 20 foot beyond, the body.
resistance of semi-savage races. The old days of the gaspipe gun and]
The action of the Cunton Govern- Colony a further opportunity of TYPHOON WARNINGS. with such spoed that its head was brand-bladed spear have given placement in promulgating a series of expressing its views in no uncertain to a period of up-to-date rifles and rules governing coastal shipping in manner to the Prime Minister at The following typhoon warn- heavy artillery. No longer do the which direct" discrimination is Honie, People at Home must be ings have been received to-day by
Ibrahim el Gharbi, known as tribesmen charge in deuse masses shown against the vessels of Britain made to realise that the welfare the American Consulate General, the "anti-Christ of Egypt and against their foe, but, with modern and Japan is indeed a serious one. of this Colony and the trade of servatory:
Hongkong, from the Manila Ob enormously wealthy, has been training in the proper conduct of It is decreed, apparently, that no
sentenced to five years in prison southern China is drifting to ruin
(1)-Cyclone or Typhoon E, of on white slave charges. Ho con- warfare, they take every advantage British or Japanese ship shall visit and that some direct action mast Southern Formosa, direction u trolled a large part of the Ostro of the cover that the territory offers, Canton, but that ships of other be taken. The meeting for Tuesday
underworld. and it is territory with which none nationalities can go there provided next has been called so that strong kitude E., 18 Latitude N., moving are more familiar than themselves. they omit to call at Hongkong. mesanges can get the authorisation This explains the magnitude of the Just how far that announcement is and backing of the foreign com- effort which the Franco-Spanish effective will very soon be discover-munity. After the latest news from commanders are finding necessary.ed, for it will take an act of war Canton, is there any need further Without; digressing, one can also to make it so. A British or to stress an appeal for whole note the part played in such a war Japanese steamer or a steamer of hearted support?
known
(2)-Typhoon in about 143 Lon
Wost.
Dr. John M. Clarke, New York state geologist, says the oldest known forest was growing & hun- The only bird in the world dred million years ago on the site which "bobs" its feathers is a na of what is now Gilbox, N. Y. He tive of South America. It nibbles bases his statements on imprinte off Ite tail feathers to produce a of the trees found in rock curious looking racquet effect. formations.