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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1825.
shall never be party to any folly that might recall the madnces .of. the past and prove, those sacrifices |to have been made in vain.”
DAY BY DAY.
THERE IS NO DUTY THE FUL- FILMENT OF WHICH WILL NOT MAKE YOU HAPPIER, NOR ANY TEMPTATION FOR WHICH THERE | IS NO REMEDY.-Seneca.
There were no cases of notifi- able disease reported yesterday.
Captain H. J. Hardiman, of the!
East Yorks Regiment, has gone on retired pay.
Captain G. A.. Clements, Royal Regiment of Artillery has re- tired, receiving a gratu y
......... The Trade Outlook, Mr. Baldwin's very optimistic reference at the Guildhall banquot; to the industrial outlook rather belies what had hitherto been the general impression, namely, that Britain's trade position was going from bad to worse and that a orisis in the near future is prac tically inevitablo. It has, of course, been realised that the stabilisation of peace in Europe by some such means as the Locarno Pact stood to ullor It should be noted that the the situation a good deal, and it woekly Polico Dance will be held is distinctly encouraging to read on Friday instead of to-night. of a British Prime Minister of the cautious nature of Mr. Bald- It is notified that Major V. win predicting that the peaceful Coates, Indian Ariny, has been settlement of the difficulties of promoted to the rank of Lieut.-; Western Europe will opon up/Colonel. largo consuming possibilities, Mr. Baldwin also referred to the de- Among the passengers from oline in unemployment, but that Singapore arriving by the s. decline can only have been of Andre Lebon yesterday, were Mr. quite recent date, because the E. F. Cox, Mr. Campbell, and Mr. latest Home papers to hand still C. L: Dunbar speak of an increase. He certain-
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ly sounded a right note when he "Faust" was produced by the appealed to Britishers to be prac-Italian Opera Company at the tical and to encourago industrial Star Theatro last night, and was rocovery by buying British goods, greatly enjoyed. To-night, "Ma- That was a little bit of advice dame Butterfly" will be the at- which we of this Colony might traction. follow "with every advantage to. ourselves and those at Hoine. It
Rov. J. Kirk Maconachio, is in the development and encou-pastor of Union Church, Hong- ragement of inter-Empire trade kong, left Tilbury on October that Britishers can do a lot in the 10th, with Mrs. Machonachie, by way of helping themselves, and al- the Kamo Maru for Hongkong. though we are not abit unmindful The Kamo Maru is due on Mon- of the tremendous possibilities of day next.
the European markets for British
AT THE RACES.........
CHESS MASTER'S VISIT.
DRAWS WITH REV, N. EVANS.
A fonturo of the chess matches | played at Kowloon in the Central British School yesterday evening by the visiting Sorbian master, Boris Kostich, and thirteen local opponents, was the comparative ease with which he disposed of twelve of them and the good play of the thirteenth, the Rev. N Evans, with whom the visitór played a drawn gamo.
Moving about from board to board, Kostich soon exhibited his mastery of the game, and the close of play came about two and a half hours after the opening moves,
Those playing against the visitor Wore: Sir H. E. Pollock, who had to leave before his game was con-"
Mrs. R. M. Dyer leading included, Mr. D. Carvalho (Chess Loch Rannoch (Mr. Reid up), Club), Mr. S. G. Hayes (Cheas winner of the Shatin Plate at Club). Mr. H. Randall (Chese Saturday's Extra Rabe Meeting. Club), Lee Cheongeng (University), (Photo: A. Fong).
Signalman Purcell (RE.), Mr. A. Brooksbank (Chess Club), Rev. Noel Evans (Chess Club), Mr. A. Spencer (H.M.S. Kharki), Mr. 'T. A. Rozario (Club Lualtano), Mr. C. Sequeira (Club Lusitano), Mr. R. E. Dastur (Chess Club) and Mr. J. H. Van Denney-Luhrs (Chess Club).
The arrangements for the visit and for yesterday's matches were made by the Kowloon Chess Club.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.] A Denial.
Sir. Since the death of our The veteran, Spotted Sand (Mrhas been raported in a certain fathor, Mr. Liao Chung-Kei, it Davies up), being led in by
goods, we think that the eventual Last week's health return shows AFTER SEVEN YEARS. and more permanent consuming three fatal Chinese cases of ty- contres for Britain's manufactures phoid fever, two non-fatal cases will be found within the realm of of cerebro-epinal fever (one Italian the Empire itself. The Premier's and one Chinese), one fatal Chi- It has fallen to the lot of com-hopeful feeling, based on. "more nese occurrence of diphtheria and Mrs. T. E. Pearce after winningnewspaper that he had left a mentators on this date, during the orders received," is indeed a wel- one non-fatal English caso of the Shatin Handicap. (Photo
that come one, and we sincerely trust paratyphoid fever.
that it will not be falsified by
past few years, to recall momentous "Cease fire!" of
A. Fong
KOWLOON Y.M.C.A.
he
1918, subsequent events. If Labour puts Passengers arriving by s.e. Tan- and the high hopes that followed the weight of its organisation on da from Australia yesterday in- the signing of the Treaty of the right side of the scale and
cluded Sir Matthew Nathan, tries to help out instead of to Versailles. As time went by, the exploit, it might well be that Major W. H. Greene, Mr. and Mrs. W. Dovey, Mr. and Mrs. H. remembrance of the great sacrifice Britain has at long last turned Jones, Captain L. W. Smith, Pro- which Armistice Day, recalled but the corner of her industrial de-fessor Namae, and Mrs. V. D. FORMAL OPENING THIS
pression. Matters might very Labrum and son. served to emphasise the bitter after-easily, however, go the other way. math of war, the ideals shattered, and the absence of prospects of
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bank at Hongkong. This report, deposit of $300,000 with a certain
however, did not come to our knowledge until lately. In view of the fact that our father was s man of honesty and integrity,.
did not losva auch great sum of money. Presum- ably it existed only in the malicious imagination of his enomics. We have boon instruct- ed by our mother to make it known to the public that if any. The forthcoming woddinge are The European Y.M.C.A. which body produce ovidence of any Our Telephones.
announced of Mr. Frederick Went has been orected on a plot of land bank deposit of our late father's lasting peace. We ourselves on So many complaints are to be worth Turner, of No. 24, Ashley at Salisbury Road, Kowloon, in Hongkong or elsewhere, for each such occasion, looking back to board those days regarding our Road, Kowloon, to Miss Rosana provided by the Government, is $330,000 or indeed for any sum telephone service that we trust Lily Radley, who arrives in the practically completed and nearly above $10,000, we will donate it the expectations of the past, have the expert who is shortly to arrive Colony by the 8.8. Macedonia ready for occupation. It is to be for the support of the strikers. mourned the portents that suggest from Home will be able to put Mr. Austin Darley Wall. Surgeon, opened formaally by H. . the Kindly have this published in ed those tragic years of conflict into effect some arrangement by of Shanghai, to Miss Margaret Governor, Mr. Cecil Clementi, on your paper. Yours etc.
which the cause at the buck of Alice McGregor, who is en route Thursday the 26th. instant, at were but the prelude to lasting race these grievances will in large from England by the s.8. Antenor. 5.30 p.m., and boarders will be moving in at the end of the hatred and even greater Armaged- mousure be removed. We do noti
Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tong month. Thirty-six bedrooms are | don. Had we, the living, broken profoss to know what is wrong
with the local system whother entertained the Rt. Hon. Mr. provided for members, most of faith with the dead? Had their it is overburdened with work, or Ramsay MacDonald and Miss which have already been booked. fine sacrifice been in vain? That whether the plant is in a bad MacDonald, and the Rt. Hon. Mr. The charges range from $100 to know J. H. Thomas. and Mrs. and the $140 a month, according to the do we were hard to say, for history holds that, it is extremely difficult Misses Thomas to lunch at size and position of the rooms. many similar instances of hopes 10) ge: even moderately good Claridges on October 7th.
The purpose of the institution ja to provide good club, dashed and the fighting man for-service nowadays. Yesterday, the Rebort was one of the donors to ed some experiences which are club for poor gentlewomen, naur short, and it may be that there only too typical of what frequent- Sunningdale, a cause in which are some of us who would have it ly occurs. On three separate the Queen is taking a great in always thus. Yet the horrors of occasions he endeavoured to get terest.
through to a local resident but)
condition-but
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LIAO MONG-SING. LIAO SHING-CHI.
Canton, Nov. 7th, 1925.
NOISY DOGS.
AND IRRITATING MUSIC.
A lady writes to the Times:---
gotten. Memories have ever been writer of these comments suffer- the fund for building a residential under wholesome influence for The R.S.P.C.A. aro willing to take
a
young men from the homo up the cause of dogs chained in land, accommodation being gardens, but is there any society provided for mombors and for that will take up the cause of the non-riembers who are residing unfortunate people condemned to in the Colony for a brie: period.endure the noise of barking dogs? the late war, surely, must have only on the third was he even The painless slaughter-house Each section is to have its library, A neighbour has three dogs who shown how urgent is the call for abio to get exchange. That much gun of Madame Simon, adopted reading-room, writing room, bil- are all kindly treated, and aro realisation that such things done, he gave the number and at a Paris abattoir is a pistol of liard room, and dining hall. The never kept on a chain, but they although he waited fully three large calibre that kills without a bedrooms have hot and cold wa-make the lives of the people in should not be, and that the world minutos, no reply was forthcom- bullet. Simply pressing the ter laid on, there is provision for this house quite unbearable with itself must revolt against periodic ing, nor could he again, got ex-weapon against the head of the electric heating, and the shower- their incessant barking and how- change, with the result that the animal to be slaughtered sels off bath, bathroom and other accom-ling to be let in. A society for international blood-baths. There-
offort had to be given up and the a powerful explosive, and this modation is up-to-date and in ac- the protection of human beings is fore should we always keep green message sent by chit-coolic. drives a four-inch spiked tube cordance with the latest sanitary sadly needed in this dogs' para. the memory of these who laid down Some quarter of an hour later, on into the animal's brain with practice. Photographers' dark dise" (Hampstead),
another massage, it required two great force. The tube is returned rooms, and drying-rooms for Nor in Chelsea are the doge their lives in the biggest war of visits to the telephone-box before to the barrel for repeated use. clothing, are provided; and thoro silent. A number of residents history, for their now dumb lips an answer could be got from ox-
is a telephone on each floor. In formally complained, with signa- The fly, so much the subject of the dinning room the arrangement have left us their lust appeal, that change. That sort of thing in
distinctly annoying, to say the health campaigners at Home will enable three or four friends res, of the barking at a dealer's premises. Notice was thereupon we should ever hold as a sacred least of it, and there is all tho was taken by Dr. W. Peter for to sit together at small tables. served on this dealer to abate the Trust. "If ye brenk faith....
"more reason for complaint when his subject in many addresses to The bodroom furniture includes a nuisance, and the London County it ie remembered that the sub-Chinese in Soochow recently. He small writing desk for each room. Council summoned him at West- As it happens, this Armistice!
scribers' rate has recently been used illustrations of the fly about
In the non-members' section, minster Police Court. After ovid- Day finds the western world at the increased. The telephone, bu it six feet in length, and Chinese sleeping accommodation is pro-ence had been given of the com threshold of an era of bright pros-remombored, plays a big part in were much impressed, When a vided for visitors to the Colony plainanin woes, the case was the life of a city; and as a public fly flew down the sponker's throat and other non-members, at daily adjourned to enable the defendant pects and grand chances, Neverl
utility service it is frequently at one of these lectures and set
or weekly rates,
to carry out an undertaking, for has the ideal of international needed for the handling of urgent him coughing, there was a gener The reading rooms and library he said that since he had tho friendship been surer réalisation, messagos, where delay might al expression af sympathy. No are receiving special attention. notice he had got rid of some have serious consequences. For wonder the doctor is annoyed Papers and periodicals for the janimals, and he was prepared or the portents of long years of that reason, we hope that no when a fly enters his mouth," peace in Europe been more pro-time will be lost in remedying said the Chineso, "if the flies in former have already been placed now to remove an Alsatian wolf on order, and are now coming to hound whose barking was parti- This country are as big as the ones hand. The library has a fine cularly complained of mising. Coming as it does on the present shortcomings.
ho has shown. us."
nuclous in books left over from Hardly had the dogs been.
Bett. the former European department led when another Chelsea resid, The Central News. Agency, ro- of the Y.M.C.A in Hongkong, eat, alone and unaided, appealed cords a remarkable feat by Miss and arrangements have been to the bapo magistrate for defence Elleen Jackson, a 15-year-old made for a regular supply of new against music. He declared that in 1918, when bloody sacrifice was! I. S. REDUCTION SCHEME. Essex girl, who, accompanied by books overy month, whilst a num- his work as a journalist was seri...
one guide, ascended the Matter ber of books were recently speci-ously interfored with by the con- near its limit, should nid the
Washington, Nov. 10,
born, Switzerland; on the 60th ally purchased.
stant playing soven or eight hours decision of such as hesitate and
The Ways and Means Committee, anniversary of its, first agcont, Arrangements will be made for a day of a profossional pianist *. stay the hand of any who would according to a Committeeman, ra- taking seven and a half hours, both social and athletic activities. next door to him. The magistrate commends the drastic pruning of including halte, whereas the Pending provision by some explained that he had no power perhaps wreck the fabric of such taxes and the abolition of the so usual time is nine hours, exclud- philanthropiat of a swimming to deal with such a complaint, laborious construction. Let us not called nuisance taxes, Thus the ing halte, She began climbing in tank, the ground at the rear of and could only rofer the applicant lose sight of the background of the tax on all grades of cigars will be 1922 on the Dent Bonavou, then the building is being prepared for to the Chancery Division for a
reduced, the tax on alcohol halved, the Allalin Horn, accompanied games, and it is intended to have possible injunction. Perhaps, how war ers, and in glving as generous-while the taxes on jewellery, by hor 11-year-old brother. Later, it lighted for use in the oyonings. aver, bo might save bim the ly as possible for the dependents camera lenses, photographic films sho did the Koisor George, Broit! Mr. J, H. Hunt, D.B.E., an ox-necessity of such proceedings by of the dead and for the maimed and plates, sutonatie machines, Horn, and the Riffel Horn, and porionced Y.M.C.A secrotary sending an officer to call on his and works of art will be repealed other peaks, ofton without a from England, who is already in neighbour to see if any annoyanog men who survive, rosolve that we-Reuter's American Service,
guide.
residence, will be in chargo,
could be avoided,
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