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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SUNDAY 1HI
No 21,850
六拜禮 號十三月一英港香
HEROIC TALE OF THE SEA.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30,
HONGKONG MAN AND ROBEY
1926.
RECENT BURGLARY.
CHINESE SENTENCED FOR LARCENY.
Burglars entered 16, Whitfield, Cansoway Bay, on December 9th) TROUBLE WITH SHUTTER; and stole property to the value of $70, including me artificiall What appears to have been anpearls, a suit of clothes and a attempt to commit a burglary roll of cloid.
It was not until
GALLANT RESCUES. BY U.S. SEAMEN.
JOKE AT WANT COMMITTEL'S "MXPENSE.
日七十月二十
CANTON'S INCREASE IN REVENUE.
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SINGLE; GRPY 10 PENTS
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.$2000
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
Signs of dementia: A Shanghai A man working on a popular man has written to a friend in newspapor seldom suffers from Hongkong for a loan of $300. cold feet. Probably because of
the good circulation.
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The Birmingham Watch Com- mittee, the "kill-joys" of the City of Brass and Banns, as it is now
GOVERNMENT CONTROL. BRITISH APPRECIATION.
Clearly à case for the Lunacy popularly nick-named, would pro- Rugby, Jan. 29.
In a report to the Committee of Commissioners.
Mutton chop whiskors, and bably be keen to meet the "man
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"Cloatees are said ta bo The British Government hus ex from Hongkong" who recently Folitical Affairs by the Treasurer,,
Wo As water is to a drowning man, London's latest fashion. pressed through its Ambassador made them. the laughing stock of Mr. T. V. Sung, states that the cost is an acrpunt sent through the presume that Angora cream will the Magasin General, the well: Tastlay this work that two of Washington, Its keen apprecia George Rober, at a érowded Birection of revenue for December] Post Office.
the country by preaching to Mr.
he used for the latter.
DO doll inscribed: "Even dolla have dollars, which is three million begin again enquiring what the heated waiting room "topside"
About next June we'll have to It is said that the new steam- to wear socks in Birmingham,"
dollars more than the former avez wave-length is to the Financial is preferable to a seat on Barker tion to the bare legs of one of age monthly collection.
The incident followed tho objee-
Editor of the Times.
Hoad these cold nights.
known French store in Beaconsthe men emersed in the theft field Arcade, is at present engag ing the attention of the police.
the
showing that the trousers and
ment with hard labour.
||tion of the "nction of the captain and crew of the American liner President Roosevelt in rescuing the twenty-five men of the crew
The ordeal
mingham Theatre, a large firessed reached a figure of over six million
house."
The Treasurer observes that this
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old flap-bunters did not beliovo in the conservation of natural. ‚ resourcos.
The shackles of peace are costly.
Nowadays a husband's fazor
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But then again, the wife's clared that the human face is hair is twice as short. |getting longer, must havą, passed sumed full control of revenue col-
Since the Government has as-through Hongkong recently. lection and the Army has been paid
were apprehended by the detective responsible for investigation' of It appears that when
the case, and they were charged manager, M. Laugier, arrived at the
at the Magistracy this morning
of the disabled British steamer Pavlova's dancers, and the subse- store yesterday morning, he found;
One of the men was found to i that it was impossible to raise the be wearing the coat of the suit Antinoe. The British Govern quent banning of Robey's famous big iron shutter which covers the and in his pocket were the tickets ment has conveyed its sympathy song, "I Stopped, and I Looked, and surplus of three million dollars will ingredients of a new cocktail.
I Listened." Robey took the doll go to support the Army, at pre- you really must gargoyle shop window. "An examination waistcoat had been bron pawned.
to the relatives of the seamin of to the footlights, and, to use his sent composed of six Army Corps,
☐ ☐ revealed the fact that an ailempt|The other man was wearing the President Roosevelt who lost own words, "she brought down the and he hopes from the new taxa- On account of the tremendous had been made to force the shutter waistcoat alleged to have been their lives in this gallant rescue
tion on land, consumers' surtax on number of curios purchased by Practically made up
from some of the stolen of a British crew.
every prominent
our recont visitors, we under- from the top, as several of the iron cloth.
newspaper in England featured tobacco and wine, and the mono-stand that the name of the ship Inths were so bent that it was quite Convicted in a charge of simple of the Antince's crew and the Pre- the joke of the Hongkong visiter poly on the sale of kerosene, that has been changed to "Bulginland.", bludes only last half as long.
the following morning, the com- impossible to move the shutter. larceny, the prisoners were each sident Roosevelt's efforts are toldments being as many as varied, at the end of May, the surplus
The curious part of the affair sentenced to six weeks' imprison
in wireless messages from the reference being made to "petty revenue will reach ten million) that the Marghir- must have sought
President Roosevelt, which is tyrannies" and the shock that the collars. to gain an entrance at a point fully
bringing the Antinoe's crew to "Kill-Joy Committee must have re- ceived in listening to a song which fteen feet from the ground, but
Plymouth. For five days the has been heard in every town in this was probably due to the fact
Antinoo was drifting helplessly England, and hundreds of times in that above the windoye are» two.
In the trough of heavy seas. The London, without anyone turning MORE TROOPS SÚRMIT. quarters of her officers and crew
hair." large fanlights large enough for a
Meanwhile Robey still man to trawl through. This was Fallowing the report of the fall were all flooded. Four engineers the Birmingham star possibly known by the burglars, and of Klangehow and Hoitow, and worked ceaselessly to keep the loss eyebrows are the, must have attempted to force the light of General Tang Poon pumps going until they were dri-limits, his eyes round Burror,ment bad to make good the deficit A health expert says we should the shutter down so as to be able yun and his principal cermander's, ven from the engine-room by the bat his lips are just Go to filme by means of loans, These loans eat less. Weshall, unless some tosfet through these apeṛtures. A further report is received which inrush of water. During the his famous word "dash." In an total a big sum and are to be investhing happens to present prices.
In the circumstances, it seems states that all districts in the north three days, the stokehold fires and interview he deered the Watch tigated before a further report is
were not of Halman, together with most of the engine-room were noted and Committee as ay intolerable nyl-made. noticed at work. They may, of the districts on the east and west the steamer yas powerless, Pesance. course. feared detection and bir coasts, have raised the white gfect discipline
The "man from Hongkong" has maintained Was ried off without completing thiir and sont reprosomatives to the aboard. "Wireless Officer Evans now been run to earth and he as- Izak, ar.
The other hand,adquarters of the invading army remained at his post until the ap-sumes the personage of Revenue have giyen up the attempt oxing offering terms of submission, which parafus failed. In the issibility of moying the were accepted. shutters,
strange that the men
HAINAN ISLAND.
The President Roosevelt made
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The Fanling huntsmen believe that it was a wild eat the hounds by the Treasury, the expenditure has been saved regularly for the looked as civet wanted to escape. China should he prosperais. It killed last Saturday, bocause it on each Army Corps has totalled past 15 years. $2,500,000, In the past, revente
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appears on during the Yuct Kuan regime weat We remain calm but unfor
ridicu-into the pockets of the militarists, tunately not collected. by their whilst at the same time the Govern
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Officer Ward, who has fust return- ed from Home. Robey afterwards graphed photograph, which he now Bresented M. Ward with an auto highly values.
YUNNAN EXPEDITION.
THE QUESTION OF COMMAND..
It is reported that General Chang
Kai-shek, accompanied by a large
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Now definition: A highelor is
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Some bands dispel music.
In the case of local Scots, 'that suspicious bulge. must not be taken for a half-mutelkin. It may only be well-thumbed Burns.
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It must be the strong, fresh a man afraid of being seen before air which causus Fanling golfers
to sleep so woundly. breakfast.
☐ O That magnificent super-produc- A Kowloon lady complains that her houseboy left without tin. "The Womun Pays." has drawn record houses in Aberdeen. any warning. She's lucky; we
DO know one who left his mistress without any jewellery,
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says a
Some of that spring lamb would be fino if it wasn't for the springs.
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As regards the People's Armr many efforts, by means of rocket At present the shutters are still which had given much assistance apparatus and lifeboats, to get a down, it has '@g Then found im to the Canton Army, the terms are possible up to the present to matender discussion and their finaline to the Antinou before there, and the police are carrying settlement will rest with General finally succeeded. Two of her
newspaper heading. Must be our. In future we may expect the unt investigations,
Li Calum whose arrival is ex-men, whose death is much deplor
ed, lost their lives in the first of COMMUNIST INSULTS. staff of officers, with a battalion of old friend bogey.
Hongkong Government to pected hourly
DO the Cadet Corps, left Canton on the These attempts..-British Wireless.
advertise for masters capable of A scientist bas found out that teaching the Doric 27th instant by the morning train ground diamonds give off a re- nd .beyond Matriculation for Shiu Kwan, ostensibly with the pugnant odour, Mr. MacWhirter Standard. object of inspecting the railway suggests that boiling a cabbage and localities in which the recent would be much cheaper.
DO robberies on trains have occurred.
CANTON ARMY.
REORGANISATION COSÍPLETED.
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WORKING HOURS.
INTERNATIONAL.. CONFERENCE IN LONDON,
Rugby, Jan. 29.
RESENTED BY THE ARMY.
arrived and pumped out oil with Great Britain by Communist pro- excellent effect, but lost sight of pagandists.
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Scarlotina is still provalent in Canton.
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Thus with a period of ten days after the first landing of the Cai-
A THRILLING EPIC. Lon Army, the island of Hainan is
New York, Jan. 29. practically subdued, and the exist England and America are ring-
The following letter from the tence of what was known as the ing with the heroic rescue of the war Office is published in local "Eight Districts Confederation." crew of the ss. Antinoe, which, in which comprised all the districts the terse seamen's language of the command orders, to be brought to
In some quarters.it is thought that The Government's idea of a south of Kno Chow, together with President Roosevelt's Captain Fried, the notice of all ranks:-- The military scheme having Hainan Island, under Tang Poon forms a thrilling epic of the sen,
the presence of a large staff of good citizen is one who isn't too been completed, the Canton Gov-yan, has come to an end.
"I am commended by the Army officers in the party is for the pur inquisitivo..
in Hongkong those days, we fear beginning on Jan. 24, when wire-)
that born fools have a hard time ernment has tssard orders that
less and compass bearings showed Council to forward a copy of a leaf- pose of Investigating and reporting.
the A pessimist may have his faults, outgrowing it. the whole Army will under
that the Antinoe's own estimate of let which has recently been distri- on the military situation on
· ប his ideas about Chinese the direct control of the Com-
aer position was one hundred miles buted to the troops throughout but General Chang's absence at a politics are
frontlers of Hunan and Kiangae, but
generally pretty
In the midst of a waltor of mittee of Military Affairs, and in
in error. The President Roosevelt
solutions as to how to be saved, future, in times of peace, all
time when Mr. Wang Ching-wai accurate.
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no one has yet thought out an orders to the General Oficers will
is away attending the Wuchow
In view of the prosent hard effective scheme for the disposal be issued, by the Committee, while
the Antinoe for twenty hours. I am to say that the Council are conference, is a conundrum to the
times, we do "think that Mr. of discarded razor blades. in time of war, Field Marshals
They re-found, her on Jan. 25, satisfied that all ranks of the Army Canton people. and Commanders-in-Chief will be
heavily listing to starboard, her deeply resent not only the efforts
It is surmised that General Winston Churchill should not have forgotten the local product
Reading of Sir Alfred Mond's created, upon whom special powers,
engine fire room flooded and hatches of the authors of this and similar Chang's personality is required to will be conferred by the Govern-
Replies have now been received broken. Capt. Fried ordered a life-leaflets, to beguile them into acts settle with General Chu Pui-tek, when comenting the bonds of secession reminds us that Joseph ments.
boat to be launched, whereupon a of disloyalty but also the insuit the delicate and difcult question friendship between Groat Britain had a coat of many colours and from the Belgian, French, German
was the greatest politician in and Italy, The full tores of the standing and Italian Governments to let squall hit the ship and upset the thrown at them in the indecent of command in the intending expe
Egypt. Army is to be 20 Divisions, dividters addressed to a conference to others rescued
bont. Two were drowded and the remarks which the authors, in their dition against Tang Chi-yao, whe The world is progressing. An
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ed into six Army Corps ench core consider the possibilty of secur-exhausted and covered with oilter, imagine will prove attractive forces on the Kwangsi frontier.alive,
What we want is a disarma- with difficulty ignorance of a soldier's true charac-is reported to be concentrating his ax-President of Mexico is still posed of three Divisions.
ment movement aimed at the The ing effective international agree Thereafter, until Jan. 27, con-
one-hand bus driver who picks 19th Division and the 1st Super-ment for regulating hours of work tinuous but fruitless manoeuvres matter of complete indifference to General Chu Pui-lek would no: The welfare of the troops is a Being the senior Yunnan officer, Disciplined Division are placed in industry.
Newspaper headline:"Avin. his teeth with the other. under the direct command of
A were made to get contact by means these persons, whose object is to mally be appointed to the com tors among the Canaries. General Chang Kai-shek.
After considering the replies of lines fired by a Lyle gun and also reduce the Army to a state of in- mand, but in the present case, reporter must have seen a couple A snob may be virtunus but as received, the British Government by boats. The line broke sixteen sficiency and untrustworthiness in when so many issues are involved of the "Hermes" poople in a often as not he has also a bad has decided that trade invitations times, until an apparatus was im- the hope this will assist them in politically and militarlly, the bird shop.
☐ O to attend the conference in Lon-provised at the suggestion of an their aim of creating a state of Cunton Army cannot afford to en- COLONY'S FINANCES.don shall be sent to the Govern- artillery expert on board, and affairs out of which they hope, to ploy a man of his ability on this The man has been discovered If the Government is really. ment in question. The Minister twelve men were got off on the profit, although it can only bring expedition. It is absolutely neces who introduced rabbits into serious in seoking to prevent the of Labour, Sir Arthur Steel Mait-afternoon of Jan. 27, and the re-in its train disorder, loss and suffer- sary to have a Yunnan General as Australia. We boliove the use of offensive weapons, why land, will accordingly arrange mainder at midnight, including, the ing to others.
chief commander, and the question K.R.A. is offering a reward for not try gagging some of our for the issue of invitations at an Captain, who was carried aboard,
the scalp of the gentleman who rumour-mongers ? carly date-British Wireless."
"I am to request that you will hus still to be settled.
introduced cats to Kowloon. communicate the contents of this]
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THE POSITION AT END OF OCTOBER,
At the end of October last, the Colony's credit balance of assets and abilities had Fallen to $10,849,145, the revenue for the month having been $2.093,760 as against
expenditure an $2,540,568.
of
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The Colony's revenue for the first ten months of 1925 was
M. BORODIN.
REPORTED GONE ON LEAVE.
It was rocontly reported that
$19.858,282 as against a collection the agreement of M. Borodin, of $20,291,436 for the correspond- under which he acts as adviser to fing period of 1924, so that in spite the Canton Government, has been of the strike there was but a small extended for a further term of falling off in receipts. There was three years.
having been without food for two days. The President Roosevelt's
crew were in a state of collapse. Reuter's American Service.
ANOTHER U. S. MINE DISASTER.
FIRE STILL RAGING.
New York, Jan. 29. A message from Benton Illinois,
A report now to band says that says that a number of miners have
letter to the troops serving under your Command, and inform them that a copy of it is being communi;] cated to the press in order that the public may be made aware of) this insult to the moral character, loyalty and intelligence of the Army."
FALLING FRANC.
APPEAL BY M. DOUMER.
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The Parson who was five minutes late at a local wedding, was possibly giving the parties a chance to change their minds.
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There is no truth in the story In fairness to our Scots friends, however, we deny, that tho in that women shop all day and buy Paris, Jan. 20.
a nothing.. The urgent néccessity of immventor of the bagpipes was
Hielander who got the idea diate measures to check the fall of
Ford cars can now bo had with the franc was the text of a speech through stopping on a cat.
coloured bodies. The idos, pre- COBHAM'S PROGRESS. by M. Daumer, in appealing to the
We prosume that what is sumably, is that the stricken Chamber to vote, the Government's measures, because u crisis mount by those big midnight Pedestrian's last impression of
earth should be a cheerful one. would mean unemployment and posters at the Peak Tramway in which
that there'll be no car after the misery. He said that the franc'in
last one. April last year was worth twenty- eight centimes gold, it was worth eighteen cents in December and challenge to "sing from memory The best thing about attending now nineteen-and-a-half. He said 40 different songs be accepted, thees Government & Heuroa.
ARRIVES IN NORTHERN RHODESIA.
now
a much heavier expenditure, how- ever, this amounting to $22,116,636 M. Borodin stipulated that he been entrapped as a result of an na against $10,819,633 for the cor- should have two months' leave of responding ten months of 1924. absence before begiaping his new explosion in a mine at West Frank The principal increase was shown term of service, and it is stated fort. It is
nder the heading of Public Works that, ho accordingly left for several have perished in the Livingston, Northern Rhodesia says that inflation last year amounted fo
aordinary no less than Vladivostok by a Russian Volua-gemeensaver
believed that "A
London, Jan. 29. message received
from
The population of Canton is vory dense. We
Should the local, strong, men's