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The Observatory forecast for to-morrow laN.E. winds, strong; generally overcast, some drizzle or mist...
The P. & O. s.s. Khiva, which loft Singapore at 3 p.m. yostor- day, is due hore at 9 a.m. on the 20th instant.
DEATH OF MR. BLAIR.
(Continucii, from Fage Lj
LEAGUE CRISIS.
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN
QUESTIONED.
London, Feb. 15.
In the House of Cominons, an
| So well and ably did Mr. Blair dis- charge all these duties that the Government presented him with a one piece of silver plate bearing the arms of the Colony "as an in-swering questions, Sir Auston dication of the appreciation of the Chamberlain sald that a special Government of Hongkong for
A WORTHY SCOT.' Another sphere of activity into
At this time of day there are
GOODNESS DOES MORE CER- few indeed who will contest the TAINLY MAKE MEN HAPPY, THAN | validity of China's right to HAPPINESS MAKES THEM GOOD. utánage her own Customs affairs, |--Lindor. and it was inevitablo that the The P. & O. 5.s. Macedonia, rasuit of the Conference in from Hongkong, arrived in Lon Poking, If there was to be anydon on the 11th Feb, at noon.. good in it, would have to aim "at] giving China Customs autonomy The data 1929 has, apparently, hoon agreed upon as one which allows China sufficient timio to put her Customs and likin affairs in better order, and it is beloved that there will, before that date. have come an appreciation by Chinese officialdom gonorully of the fact that there is an economic limit to the amount of taxation which can be levied on foreign goods. Prohibitive prices to the consumer fand he is the man who really pays all the taxes) will so decrease trade that tariff auto-
were always perfect. He was other questions until shortly before" strength to the he want to Geneva. nomy will, in the absence of sound
a tower of
Asked whether Germany's appli reasonability, prove a financial
Chieftain of the day, and he was the recipient from time to time of cation will be considered separately. other disaster instead of a benefit. And
many personal gifts from those from the applications of with whom he came in close con- States, Sir Auston Chamberlain if the authorities. of provinces, The Manila Observatory re-tact as an official of the Society, said that he was unable to answer town and villages are not con-ported ut 3.30 p.m. yesterday that it is generally conceded that Mr. for the League in the same specific trolled so far as tax imposition on the typhoon situate to the west Blair very materially assisted in way as he answered for the Foreign
of Balintang. Channel was filling placing the Society at its present Offee-Reuter, goods concerned those goods will never sell. The Central Govern- mont, therefore, is making itself BLAIR. In London on 15th
inst David Keay Blair, fate responsible for a very great deal Secretary of Hongkong when it promises to abolish likin, General Chamber of Com-and if that added responsibility merce. (By Cablel
will urge it on to assume a more efficient control of the civil ad- ministration of the country; then
services so willingly given to the meeting of the Assembly of the Colony on various occasions," League of Nations, had been con Mr. Blair was also a Justice of vened for March 8 to consider Peace for Hongkong.
Germany's application for admis sian. which Mr. Blair throw himself Asked whether he could "remove with energy and enthusiasm was
the considerable apprehension both the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society, of which he was a mem-here and abroad by stating if th Fire destroyed a matshed at ber during the whole period of his British Government were opposed Santin village, in the Now Ter-realdence in the Colony, and the ritories, yesterday. The damage Secretaryship of which he held to any considerable increase in the amounted to $40.
for many years. This latter post Council Sir Austen Chamberlain ho took over from Mr. T. W. Hill, roferred to the reply he had given and everything he did for the Society, was conspicuous for its on Thursday and said that he gave thoroughness and caro, with the that considered reply in the hope result that the arrangements for that he would not be asked any the annual Ball and Burns' Nicht
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DEATH.
The Telegraph
TUESDAY, FEB. 15, 1926.
CUSTOMS PROBLEM.,
a very beneficial step indeed will
have been taken.
Boycott Aspects.
The Empress of Australia is to leave for Vancouver at noon on the 19th instant, and not at 6 a.m. as previously announced.
A thief ontored the second floor of No. 69 Hollywood Road early this morning and stole money and property to the value of $230.
up,
AN UNTRUE REPORT.
Later.
high water mark of efficiency.
OTHER ACTIVITIES., Rushing out of a verandah in} Mr. Blair, during his lengthy Kowloon yesterday, a Chinese residence here, took a keen inter- Reater learns on high authority got into the way of a motor car est in yachting, and he, together that there is no truth whatsoever and was knocked down. He was with Mr. Frunk Smyth, will long in the report circulated abroad to taken to the Kwong Wah be remembered as being promi- the effect that Great Britain has Hospital.
nently associated with the pro- agreed to the proposal that per- gress of the Royal Hongkong manent seats on the League Council
A
manufacturer of
STRAITS PROBLEMS.
APPLYING ADVISORY. COMMITTTEE'S REPORT.
to
A Chinese has been admitted Yacht Club. For many years, Mr. should be awarded to "Poland, to Government Civil Hospital Blair was Sulling Secretary, and Spain and Brazil in addition suffering from serious cuts in his he did splendid work in connec-Germany-Router. foot,, inflicted with a razor. Ition with the Club's annual re
LEAGUE SECRETARY IN BERLIN. is stated that he intended to com- gattas. He put in a tremendour mit suicide.
amount of hard work as an offefàl·
Berlin, Feb. 15. of the "Royal" and it was in re- Sir Eric Drahamond. Secretary cognition of this that he was made of the league of Nations; has There are many aspects of the The police have received a re-vice-Commodore, and, later, Com-arrived here from Geneva and had boycott concerning which the at-port from Mr. Bew, of Messrs modore.
a lengthy conversation. with Herr titude of the Canton Government Dodwell & Co., Ltd., that a Yet another sphere in which Stresemann. It is emphasised In spite of the rather inexplicis surprising, but none seenis typewriter, valued at $500, was Mr. Blair worked hard and well that Sir Erle has not come to Ber-
more inexplicable than its apstolen from the office some time able silence which has marked paren: willingness to permit the between Tuesday and Friday last.was in connection with Free-lin to discuss the question of the masonry. For many years he was number of scats on the League the recent work of the Chinese boycott organisation to act as an
a Past Master of the Eastern Council, which is a matter for the Tarif Conference in Peking imperiun in imperio by arrogating
dog belonging to Mr. Scolin Lodge. of which he hnd Governments concerned, but to to itself powers and functions Noronha, of 21, Granville Road, long been the mainstay, and when confer with Herr Stresemann on looks as if there is going to be which rightfully belong only to Kowloon, has been sent to Ken- he left Hongkong he held the rank technical questions in connection an agreement reached. Wo judge constituted authority. This is so much, by a report just to hand well illustrated in the fate which dy Town for observation, as it of Worshipful Senior Warden of with Germany's entry into the bil Mr. Noronha's younger bro- the Grand Lodge of Scotland for League, as, for example, the hes overtaken some hundreds of ther, who received modical trout-Hongkong and South Chinn. which stages that there is con-innocent Chinese who, for nomment at home.
ceremony of procedure to be ad- In closing Ule, sketch of Mr. opted at Geneva.4-Reuter. fidance among all the delegates greater offence than attempting
Blair's career in Hongkong, men- that a compromise will be offect-to return to Hougkong, have
been placed in confinement under Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Firestone tion must be made of the fact that ed on what hitherto has been the most revolting conditions, as Jr., passed through the Colony during the war he raised and had big stumbling block. The main was reported in our issue of yes- from the States, on board the charge of the Signalling Section features of this expoater settle-terday by a recent visitor to President McKinley on Friday. of the Volunteer Corps during ment is that a revised tariff will Canton. Many, we are told, have Mr. Firestone is the sun of the which time he trained many re- sidents in the art of telegraphic fallen sick as the result of this well-known
signalling. He remained with be fixed to remain in effective imprisonment, whilst some have motor car tyres.
... this Section until it was disband- force until 1929, at which date had to be removed to hospital in
ed. In many other ways also, Mr.
London, Feb. 15. a dying state. If this is not sheer
The two years in command of Blair gave of his time and China will be free to negotiate brutality, then we do not know H. M. S. Bluebell, of Commander energy for the benefit of
Replying to a question in the the House of Commons regarding what independent conventional tariff what the team moans. Had A. R. Smithwick, D.S.D., have Colony, and his ill-health could action was being taken in connec
with any of the the of the suffering thus caused nearly expired, and he is to be be traced directly to the hardtion with the report of the Advisory been the result of what relieved shortly by Commander work and unsparing effort which Committee on Social Hygiene In Powers. The tariff increases the extremists are
pleased G. C. Muirhead-Gould, D.S.O., which were suggested by the toterm "Imperialistic oppression," who during the last year he he displayed in all that he under the Straits Settlements, 1926. Mr. Amery said that action was being Washington Convention will in we should never hear the last of taken a course at the Military
taken on the general lines suggest. ib. Incidentally, this eruel Staff College, Camberley. all probability come into effect
ed, notably the questions of the im treatment of Hongkong workers right away, and, as China is in-who are tired of the strike and
migration of female with male Through being run into by a
Chinese, in which connection H.E. sisting that her annual revenue want to get back. to the Colony
the Governor had reported already from the Customs to cover the rather knocks the bottom out of motor car in Queen's Road West
that there had been continued im- the Canton argument that it does yesterday, a Chinese has been
TO BE LAUNCHED TO-DAY. tho Government various debt services, the gradual
provement in the sex ration for not want the Hongkong strikers admitted to
many years. The questions of abolition of likin and administra-in its midst, that they fled, to Civil Hespital with serious in-
Rugby, Feb. 15. The New cruiser H. M. S. Saf-housing, education and recreation has been charged with using a tive expenses, etc., must amidunt Canton because of the repressive juries to his head. The driver mousUTOS of the Hongkong
at Porta- were engaging the attention of the to 100 million dollars at the least, Goverment, and that
their private car for public hire and folk will be launched
Government. It was hot thought mouth Dockyard to-morrow. She the Conference is now engaged presence in Canton has only with having inefficient brakes.
will be the first of five now light necessary to appoint the suggested mixed Commission but the medical on evolving a scheme whereby increased the difficulties of the
Administration. The mere fact Amongst the passengers who cruisers laid down in connection service was being organised on the be increased that these pour people want to departed by the s.s. President with the replacement programmelines suggested. He added that while return but are imprisoned and Garfield was the Hon. Mr. Henry of 1924/25 to take the water: The the Colonial Government aims at The delegates are ill-treated for attempting to do so Morgenthau, G.B.E., and wife, five vesicle, which are to be com-the disappearance of brothels, pre-
is u sufficient refutation of the Mr. Morgenthau was American Pleted during the current year, gress must be gradual. optimistic Of being able
be built by the the Government was closely attend- arguments mentioned. The truth Ambassador to Turkey from 1913 are the first to agree on this matter, and it is is, of course,, that but for the to 1916, and later was made Government under the limitationsing to the recommendation to in- this revised tariff which, it is pro- terrorist methode employed by the Chairman of the Greek Refugee of the Washington Trenty. They crease the personnel and extend posed, shall remain in force until boycott organisation, the whole Settlement Commission. He is will be of 10,000 tons displace the powers of the Chinese protec-
Istrike and boycott would utterly an Officer of the Legion of ment, as allowed by the Pact,, and torate-Reuter, 1929, at which date China shall collapso without the necessity for Honour,
will probably carry guns.-British Wireless. assume fril tariff autonomy and any negotiations whatsoever.
agreements
The tarith Can la mike that figure certainty.
be free to make such agreements with the several countries as her statesmen then see fit. Of course, likin has to be abolished right away, although, as yet, there have been no "ory convincing 'meas. ures outlined to secure that object, The class of goods on which the "interim" duties are to be im-
"ROOSEVELT'S" RECEPTION.
it
Paris
EXCHANGE RATES.
Rugby, Feb. 15. To-day's exchange rates are as
.132% 4.80 5/10
26.25
25.26 12.13
+40,28
120
.20.43 .18.10 18.71 28.88 .34.67 .1644/
New York, Feb. 15. The wife of Captain Fried and the wives of members of the crew posed is now under consideration. having previously boarded the ves- It is pointed out, however, in these at the quarantine island, there report to hand, that the question were happy; crowds aboard the 5.8. of the inclusion of the destination President Roosevelt on arrival from of these taxos and the con-Europe. Steamboats sounded their sumors taxos wherg likin aboli.
Hyrens and tens of thousands of lion is concerned, is still unsettled
waved. spectators cheerod and although of vital importance to There was an enthusiastic ceromony the importers, since such charges at a reception held abourd which are easily arbitrarily raised to was attended, antongst others, replace, oven lo sxeved, the exist- by emigent Britishers-Router.
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QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS. BATCH OF SUMMONSES.
London, Feb. 15. There was a long list of traffic In the House of Commons, Mr. cases at the Kowloon Magistracy Amery replied in the affirmative to to whether the this morning, including a number a question as
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of prosecutions of Europeans, the Government had suggested to. majority of whom were summon-Hongkong the formation of a corps' ed for leaving their cars unat- of Naval Volunteers, and added tened.
that the question of forming On a charge of leaving her ear similar. corps in Singapore and unattended, Mrs. "A. Murphy's other places of Malaya was under ..103 chauffeur was fined $4, while Mr. consideration. As yet he was not
Lytton was muleted. in a similar able to give details of the scheme. sum for leaving his car opposite Commander Kenworthy request- the Star Theatre.
ed that an offer for enllatment
34.56
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,46% .1/0 3710
3/05
..2/4%
1/10%
.30. 13/10
Dritish Wireless.
Bombay Shanghai Hongkong Yokomma Silver (pot) Silver (forward)
.40 18/10
Mr. A. W. Ramsay was find $5 should be made to the loyal and for disobeying the signals of an scamènlike Chinese colonists of Indian constable at the Star Ferry Hongkong and Mr. Amery said that-
be considered- Whart on the afternoon of Junu would have to.
31.
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