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MONDAY, FEB. 1, 1926.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
·OF
DR. WU'S SPEECH.
FREEMASONS AT CHURCH.
FIRST ANNUAL CATHEDRAL SERVICE.
spirit behind them but when that spirit is the right one, the words mean everything. In the TRUE GLORY. LIES IN THE caso of the peoples of America SILENT CONQUEST OUR- Continued from Pugé 1.}`.
BELVES,—Thompson. and Japan, the spirit, we feel |
of Hongkong Any Hongkong de- sure, is waiting to be givon ex- The tomperature at Shanghai legatton should properly be com- pression. Let the two countries at 6 am. to-day was 21; in Hong-posed of British with Chinese to There was a very large attend- got together and come to a firm kong it was 56.
aasist them, as it cannot be re-regnlia at St. John's Cathedral last ance of local Freemasons in full understanding." Then yot a The weather forecast for to-peated too often-since the Hong-evening, when the first annual further step will be taked to-morrow la-N.E. winds, strong: kong Government refuses to see the service of the Hongkong and South Wards the goal of universal generally overoast, somo drizzle
China District Grand Lodge was paint that the strike is not against eld. Freemasons from all the the Chinese merchants of Itong-ecal lodges attended, forming in Mr. H. W. Ray, of Hongkong kong, but against the British and procession, headed by the Hon. Mr. Amusements, Ltd., left for Lon-
the British Government, don on Saturday, on the 8.8. Atsuta Maru.
peace.
or mist..
Protection. Bound up as is. Hongkong's prosperity in customary thines)
We are asked to state that the with the freedom of its grout port, here is an almost personal entries for the Fanling Hunt interest for us here in the vexed Steeplechases close to-day to Dr. problem of import taxation which F. Pierce Grove.
as during the past few months baan engaging the serious alton- Amongst the candidates electod tion of politicians at Home in the at the French Municipal Council guise of the Safeguarding of election in Shanghai wore Mr. E. Industries Act. Arguing that S. Wilkinson, Mr. L. Basset and Britain is, primarily, a manufac- Mr. L, Blum, suring nation, the politicians now
P. H. Holyoak (District Grand Master), supported by Mr. J. Owen CANTON'S EFFORTS,
Hughes (Deputy Grand. Master), Dr. Wa claimed that the Canton rear..
After referring to further points, with the clergy bringing up the Those taking part in the Government had repeatedly shown service were the Bishop of Victorin its sincerity, remarking:
The Rt. Rev. C. R. Duppuy) Rev. First. We sent a High OficialScott (Naval Chaplain), Rev. G. T. to Hongkong to discuss the situa-Waldegrave and the Rev. G. E. S. tion with the Hongkong Governor, Upsdell. though we need not have done so. The Bishop preached a sermon Government explained their dif- Masonic Order, and appealed for" Second. When the Hongkong full of special reference to the ficulty over dealing direct with the inancial, support for the new cathe strikers re the political terms, we ral of the Fukler. Diocese now proposed a way out of it to assist being built at Foochow the settlement.
Fourth. We said to the Hong-
THANK-OFFERING.
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH RAISES LARGE SUM.
"
in power at Westminster have His Excellency the Governor puton the Statute Book a nieasure has kindly consented to inspect which empowers the House of the H.K.V.D.C. on February 8th, Third. When the diffully re-
The service closed with the sing Commons to declare an import at 5.45 p.m. on Murray Barracks garding re-instatement was later procession of clergy choir and ng of the National Anthem and'a duty in respect of cortain goods Parade Ground. in certain trades, and there have
brought up, we also suggested a way
Freemasons, been-ondidus arguments and dis
out, by recommending compensa-| During Morning Service yestion instead of re-instatement in cussions as to whether, for terday in St. John's Cathedral.cases where this was impossible. instance, knivesor scissors should the Right Rev. the Bishop of
this come under
protective Victoria licensed the Rev. N. V kong Government: As soon as you Lariff." All manner
of time-Halward. M.C., M.A, to act as agree in principle to the economic wasting attempts at definition his Diocesan Chaplain. have annoyed all but the
terms, we would use all our in- Occupants of the ministerial)
fluence to urge the strikers to effect A roport from Canton states benches. But it is a curious fact that on Thursday last.. between
an immediate settlement.
With the object of raising a that while Great Britain has been the hours of noon to G o'clock, least four occasions demonstrated church expenses, yesterday. was The Government has thus on at sum of $3,000 to defrey various adopting by an acrimonious selecthere wore six cases of robbery its sincerity and its desire to pro- specially tive process the political policy committed, five in varicus parte mote an early settlement.
observed by St. of Protection, there has lately of Canton, and one in Honam.
Andrew's Church, Kowloon, as ben a very popular movement
Dr. Wu claimed that the Canton Ehank Offering Sunday. There AMERICA AND JAPAN.throughout Central Europe for the
abolition of tarifis "That part of dent Jefferson, which sailed from and made none.
Government had made concession were large congregations both The silk shipped por .. Presi- after concession, whilst Hongkong morning and evening, and the Europa which is bound togather this port at 5 p.m. on January Wu said" in conclusion, to under-
It is difficult, Dr.services were very heartily "parti- economically by the great com-4th, arrived in New York at noon stand the attitude of the Hongkong was preached by the Rev. G. E. A "Locarno pact", between morce-bearing rivers of the Rhine, on January 27th, having been 22 Government. It may be that there Arrowsmith, and in the evening
ciputed in.
In the morning, the sermon the United States and. Japan Danube and Vistula, and which calendar days and 19 hours in are two factions in Hongkong-by the Vicar, the Rev. G. B. that is what is being advocated is now composed of a number of transit.
more or less small tatos. as just now by influential leaders in against its former composition by
one faction conciliatory and de-Lindsay. 'sirous of a
During the evening Three men armed with re- Realising that by the one or two large Powers, is find-volvers entered the residence of fuction filled with the pride and collection was made in addition
settlement-another.
service, the special thank-offering conclusion of the Locarno Treatying by sheer force
stances that tariff, barriers are of Kowloon City at 1.30 this while the Hongkong Government amount of the thank-offering was
a widow inside the walled section prestige, of Imperialism.
Thus to the usual offertory, and the the world hus moved an restricting what would otherwise morning, but on someone outside talks of Its readiness to settle the the very gratifyingly large sum of appreciable step carer an be a relatively large flow of trade blowing a police whistle, they strike, in reality nothing concrete 83,353,31 to which the day's usual. enduring
prominent It is the immediate economic decamped without having stolen done. peace, newspaper writers and public giving riso to
offerings, amounting to $174,15, pressure of the times that is
It may be that Hongkong thinks was added, making the total of growingly
that the strikers and merchants are $3,527.46. speakers are asking why the popular demand for the free and spirit of that compact cannot be unfettered intercourse of trade has decided to great $4,000 to the there are two parties In Cunton The Canton Municipal Council tired out with the struggle, that Applied to the relutims between That statement is made on the bereaved family of the late Dr. extremists and moderates, that authority of a leading British W. Schramcier, Advisor to the there are divided councils here. If America and Japan. One writer politician who has recently unde who says frankness is essential
Municipality, 45 a token of so Hongkong is making a big mis- in discussing this matter, states of these small states is an urgent ment during the past two years has already disclosed its real at-
He says that the economic unity appreciation of the valuable ser- tike.
vices rendered to the City Govern- As to the Canton Government, It that." for a good many youre the desirability, and he takes the ex- people of America have lived umple as
unity of Europe and of the whole
America.
of circum-
a study tour of the Continent.
up
one ou which to
under the strain of foreign com-. petition, it falls back on tariffs. We believe in the logic of that argumer.t.
EXCHANGE RATES.
anything.
Rowe.
THREE RESOLUTIGNE.
WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT.
TRANSFERRED TO SHANGHAI.
titude towards a settlement and ita with the notion that some day base the plea that the economic arrived by the President Jackson provided the terms are such as are and most highly respected re Amongst the passengors who desire to assist in bringing it about, One of Hongkong's best-known the United States and Japan world must eventually be Yates, Judge and Mrs. W. D. chants and worthy of the cause in F Audott, recently left the were Mr. and Mrs. Leonard acceptable to the strikers and mer-sidents, in the person of Mr. E. would come to blows. "We base," cognised by its leading statos Askren, Judge and Mrs. B. S. which our fellow citizens died in Colony on being transferred to he erys.
"a big feet in the men. Britain, he Naye, is Pacific. and Japan does likewise, doing a puter table and Mrs. W. S. Brown, Mr. Avernment has made sincere efforta Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Grosscup, Mrs. G. F. Haslam, Mr. Shanghai and Canton. The Go-the Shanghai shipping office of when, in order theoretically to Now and then, some of the bolster
Cameron and Mr. O. S. Benbow in the past and will continue to Co., Ltd. certain industries political leaders on both sides
make similar efforts in the future. Mr. Aucott has been in the
service make ill-considered speeches that
of Messrs. Jardine. Amongst the passengers who
Matheson and Co. for about add to the mutual suspicion and
passed through Hongkong by the The following resolutions were twenty years, the whole of which hostility." Developing the point,
Atsuta Maru was Mr. Lucien passed by the meeting:
has been spent in the firm's ship- Blum, manager of Messrs. J. UII- he asserts that war between the
Resolved that this meeting ping office in Hongkong. Recent- mann & Co., of Shanghai, a new-considers that the report of ly during the absence of Mr. R. two countries within the next
ly-elected moriber of the French Mayor Wu as to the unofficial Sutherland, he has been acting as decade is not at all improbable,
Municipal Council there. He is conversations between the Govern-shipping manager, and on the and it is difficult to so at present
on his way to Colombo to meet ment and the Hongkong Govern- latter's return to the Colony Mr. how the United States could get followst
Today's exchange rates are as his wife and family.
ment is satisfactory;
Aucott has been transferred to Resolved further that where the Shanghai office, whore he involved in war with anyone
Rugby, Jan. 21.
St. John's Cathedral Churcli 46. the present strike is will in all likelihood remain for else. That, he says, is not jingoNew York
Paris
Body has decided to go on with patriotic demonstration of the several years. Socially, Mr. 4.80% the scheme for a new chancol people for the honour of the coun-
Aucott has been very populär talk; it is a plain facing of the Brussels
100.88 organ casing, a plan of which is try and Whereas the workers have during his lengthy residence facts. Then he makes a strong Geneva
26.28 hung on the west door of the made immense sacrifices cheer here, and he has taken a parti Amsterdam
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Cathedral. This will involve, plea for the adoption by both Milan
cularly keen interest in educa- Berlia
120 with structural alterations to the fully for the cause; (*. nations of the spirit. which made Stockholm
Therefore We, the merchants pointed a member of the Board
tional matters, having boon a 18.16 organ, a suni of about $14,000, of tho Locarno Treaty a possibility.[
Copenhagen
1967 which $6,009 has already been
Canton, ball unite to- of Education in Desember, Oslo
23.9 paid.
gether with them and assist in 1924, also The iden is intriguing,, and Vienna
being one of the 91.56
every way, in order that the desoldest members of the Com there would certainly be univere Helsingfors
Prague
mands of the strikers may be inittee of the Diocesan Boys' al approval of any scheme which Madrid
completely accepted by Hongkong. School. In his early days worked towards this end. There.
Lisbon
in the Colony, he was al keen footballer, playing at backy for the Hongkong Football Club for several years, and on many*** occasions representing Ewo in the inter-hong games with Taikoo.
Associated prominently with. him in the Nocial life of the Colony has been Mrs. Au
has boon one of
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Regulations have been issued 41 by the Captain Superintendent of 24 Police in connection with the 6/1 firing of crackers during the 48% Chinese New Year celebrations. The firing of bombs, electric flash Grackors, and that type of de- tonating cracker known บะ
golden coin is strictly pro:] hibited,
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SHIPPING NEWS.
VESSELS NEAR PORT,
WONDER DOG.
RIN-TIN TIN AT THE QUEEN'S.
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Rio is no reason that we can see why Buenos Aires the representatives of the United Shanghai
Bombay
States and Japan should not sit Hgkong
Kobe.. down together, with un. open re-Silver (Spot) cognition of the perils that face Silver (spot) the two countries and an honest desire to remove them. Some
With reference to the proposed The principal attraction in ott, who conversion of Yuot Show Hill, yesterday's change of programme the koonost workers of the agreement" might be reached
the former official rosidence of at the Queen's Theatre won "The Mothers' Union and also a mom. making possible a further reduc-
the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a sub- Lighthouse by the Sea." This is bor of the Cathedral Women's tion of the load of armaments un-)
scription list has been opened for quito a good picture and chiefly Guild. Tho many friends of Mr. the raising of funds and it is to be commended because of the and Mrs. Aucott wish them every der which each country labourá-
stated that the following have wonderful things done by Rin-Tin-happiness in their new sphere. an agreemont that would permit
subscribed: -The Nan Yang Bros. Tin, the dog who takes a leading the people of both countries to
Tobacco Co., Ltd., $5,000; the part in the work of outwitting a look to the future with a little kong.
Canton Electric Co. and Lum Laibig gang of rum-runners, the St. John's Cathedral Notes Sang $1,000 each; Mr. Lum Yat-climax coming when this clover welcomes the new chaplain to the more hope and a little losa Glenfalloch, Fontainebleau, An-mus, Director of Public Works, animal re-illuminates the light- Bishop, the Reverend G. C, Hal- foreboding. That there is desire kor Hongkwa, President Cleveland, Mr. Li Mun-tak of the Far East house after the gang had extiu- ward, M.A., who arrived in the for peace between the two peoples Atsuta Maru, Solviken, Tiisala, chants Tobacco Co., Mr. Tang excitement galore in the picture, J. T. Holman, who leaves on fur Bank, Ltd., the Chinese Mer-guisbed the lights. There is Colony on January 29. The Roy we have no doubt that desire Hozan Maru, Glenshiel, Kanagawa Ma Tsui-yung, of Sincere Co., some fine coa scones, is excellent. kindly consented to be responsible Anking, Fausang, Kotsu Maru. Chak-yu, the Salt Commissioner, whilst the photography, including lough on March 2nd, has very should be expressed in some Maru, Slavic Prince, Nagporo. Ltd., Mr. Lee Sing Kee, of the Other features in the pro-fer the Cathedral services during tangible past. We realiso, of Seangbee, Tjibodas, Kalgan, Banic of Canton, Ltd., Mr. Choy gramme, which is being repeated February. Rev. L. B. Eowell course, that words on paper moon (Tilsalak, Japan Arrow,
Taikwa Maru, West Cormona, Chang, of the Sun Co., Ltd., Mr. to-day are the Pathe Gazelto and a goon up to Peking to take charge nothing unless thoro is a genuine Castly,
Corby Chan Sing-Mce, of the East Asta-Christie comedy which gives some of the Legation Church for like
fino Honolulu scenery.
poried.
At noon to-day the following vessels were expected to be in wireless communication with Hong-
tic Bank Ltd., $500 ench.