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worst and the most destructive olements are coming to the top.
DAY BY DAY.
AND
FORBEARANCE
It has been proved, too, that
PITY Bolshevism as interpreted by tho
SHOULD CHARACTERIZE ALL Soviet "leaders in an instrument ACTS OF JUSTICE. Franklin... of oppression and autocratic
The Observatory forecast for governance in no respact less
to-morrow is--N.E winds, frosh ;| cigorous in operation than the generally overcast, some drizzle Czarist rule.
or mist,
21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM
"TELEGRAPH" FILES.
IRAQ DEBATE.
(Continued from Page 1)
polley of the Government had been The following Items are extract-influenced during the last few ed from the Telegraph files for the
week ended February 13th 1905. yoars. It would mean that we
Inspectors Langley and Wildin should make ourselves ridiculous, succeeded in capturing six men in the eyes of the League of Na implicated in the piracy of the
Wo cannot bring ourselves to
Through being knocked downs.8. Holkong, of Pakhol," Theylons, contemptible in the eyes of think that this great country will by a tram in Doa Vooux Road, a were brought before Mr. J. H. the Turks and odious in the eyes of be completely ruined. It has an-Chinese was sorlously injured Kemp at the Magistracy.
the people of Iraq whom we should told resources which only need yesterday. He was taken to tho There were further boxing
Government Civil Hospital in an bouts by naval men at the Kow. have betrayed. It would mean the to be developed on organised and unconscious condition.
loon Dock. At the conclusion, desertion of a Christian popula scientific lines to yield immense
Commander T L Shelford, RNG tion who, during the last seven or- returns. Unhappily, howovor, its)
Members of the Helona May thanked the Dockyard manage- political leadors appear more Institute ure requested to tako mont on behalf of the Navy for eight years, had experienced a free- concerned with the stirring up of notice of the alteration in con-making the necessary arrange tom and happiness they had never
nection with the booking for the ments. strife in other lands than with Musicale on Thursday, February Superintendent-Engineer,
and Mr. J. Lambert renat possible.
Kow. the great tasks which lio ready 25th. Information can
Referring to the last part of the be ob-loon Dock, replied.
Labour amendment urging the Co- at hand awaiting attention. Their tained from the Socrotary. Advt.
The Rev. J. H. France acknow-ornment to use every effort to ex Grude conceptions of political
ledged a donation of $20 for un-pedite the admissions of Iraq to the Master Emil Charles Danon-employed Europeans, economy have caused endless borg. Hongkong's prodigy, is to
The Russian Baltic fleet, on ite League of Nations, Mr. Amery trouble in their own land, and give his third annual piano re- way to Japanese waters, was re- said that the only effective way of securing Iraq's admisalon was by unless steps are taken to counter cital at the City Hall on the 9th purted to be still at Nossi Be,
instant at 5.30 p.m. the widespread Soviet propaganda pertoire consists of over a hun-tween
His re- Madagascar. A conflict arose be securing her frontier and enabling the Russian Admiral. her to provide for her own defence in other quarts of the world, the dred pieces all played from (Rozhdestvensky), and the Ger- and co-operating with her to build The blight will spread with disastrous memory.
man companies supplying coal a stable administration. to mankind at
The colliers refused to follow the biggest step forward in that direc Beet on account of being in toction would be approval of the close proximity to the Japanese. Treaty. Mr. Amery pointed out
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FRIDAY, FEB. 19, 1926.
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The Rev. Brother Paul, the new Visitor of the Christian Brothers' Collages in the Far On the initiative of Mr. Percy that the effect of the new Treaty East, is now in Hongkong on his H. Holyoak, vice-chairman of the was to extend the term of the ori initial round of inspection. From Y.M.C.A., a pleasant Sunday ginal Treaty for 26 years as from hero he will go to Manila and afternoon scheme WAS put inte December 16th last, unless, as he expects to be back in Singapore operation at the City Hall. at the end of the month.
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confidently believed, Iraq was uḍ- mitted before that date into the League. There was nothing in the ew Treaty which imposed any new. military or financial obligations. The policy on which the Govert- nent were working of bringing tre British financial and military · res-
Taikos Football Club entered &ponsibilities in Iraq to an end in protest against the Naval Fare 1928 still held the field unchangéd. team for playing, non-eligible men He believed they could substanti- A solemn Requiem Mass was 3lly fulfil that polley within the celebrated at the Roman Catholic iates laid down two years ago.
Rev. Father Torres. Cathedral in memory of the late Mr. Amery concluded by relating the, progreas made in Iraq since the Mr. G. H. Potts returned from present policy was established. He declared that what we wanted
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then
anjust demands, we made a coward- There was a great rush of subtly surrender. scribers for the Chinese 5% loan
Mr. Ramsay. MacDonald, at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the crowds having to be
moved his amendment.-British controlled by the police.
Wireless,
LABOUR AMENDMENT REJECTED:"
London, Péb. 18. The House of Commons, by 265 votes to 116, has rejected the Labour amendment moved by Mr. Romany MacDonald, opposing the extention of the Irug mandate.
Government Reports. We were speaking just the other day to a local Government official who said that he was vory busy at the moment completing
The prizes at the new Regatta his annual report for 1925, and,
were presented by Mrs. F. II. May when, wo hazarded the opinion Generals Li Chung-yan and The steamer Liscum, due to go that that was very quick work and Wong Shiu-hung have telegra- north with recruits for the Peking earlier than usual, he said that phically raported to the Central Legation Guard, was to be fitted annual reports for most Executive Committee of the Kuo-out as a cableship on her return THE RUSSIAN FUZZLE. later than the end of February. on the Committee of the Canton
Governments were completed not minuing that they assumed office to Hongkong. In the case of the Public Works Government on the 13th instant, Department, he thought that this nice Lum Sum and Chow Loo, Some very outspoken views re- was a little later, generally, be dismissed. garding Russia have recently cause of the large amountof detail- ed information and also because been
by expressed
Count they had to wait forsome valuation the Canadian Pacific Steamships, Mr. W. R. Buckberrough, of Malynski, a well-known and ox- figuros. He agreed that the who has been in the Hongkong ceedingly forceful writer on publication of the reports was office for about seven years, a tiger hunting expedition at Pak
always months after the reports leaves the Colony to-day by the hoi. social questions, who has been had been prepared and handed in R.M.S. Empress of Australia on F. H. Bell, of the Customs. Owing we wanted was to be otherwise than He was accompanied · by. | vas stability and that the last th`ng on a visil g London. His to the Colonal Secretary's office, transfer to the Tokyo office of the to a variety of circumstances, they at peace with our neighbours. We observations are of all the greater but explained that there
was C.P.S. Mr. Buckberrough, who were unsuccessful. generally a lot of "shroffing up" has been acting as passenger
vanted Turkey to be active and· value from the fact that he has done by the chief Government agent in Hongkong, will take a arrangements for the salvage of peace was not best assured, if. in Capt. Owen Wilks completed prosperous within her borders, but studied the Russian problem at officials and that this, plus similar position at Tokyo.. His the s.s. Shrewsbury, stranded on the face of what we believed to be
the time taken first-hand, and there is much in
by the place in the Hongkong office has Government. what he says of which extremists plained why it
printers,
6x-been taken by Mr. J. M. Hender- the Bombay Shoal. was that the son, also of the locul office. in China would do wall to take publication of the reports was an note. According to this com-late in the year. We refer to this
Dr. George Henry Bondfield, matter because the general opinon mentator, ninety per cent, of the has been that the delay has lain D.D., of Alumhurst Koad, Bourne Russians are destitute to-day, with theseveral Departments. We mouth, for 30 years engaged in
It was reported that during the and that fact he attributes dir can soe the necessity and wisdom mission work in China, who was Chinese New Year holidays a for all departmental reparts to be a former pastor of Union Church, Jectly to the activities of the Com-"OK" by the Colonial Store Hongkong, left an estate of the less than eight ocean-going steam-
munist regime. The Russian re-tariat before they are passed for gross value of £2,665, with net era were lying at Whampoa.
At a meeting of the Royal Hong volution, he says, has been uni-publication, but we cannot see personally £2,586. He states: kong Yacht Clith and the Hong versally misunderstood, for that of printing, should take such an my memory in any way. I should konx Boat Cub, it was decided why this process, plus the process ff my children wish to perpetuats great upheaval was not the work inordinately. long time. We be- prefer that they should send an that the two clubs should amalga Mr. Amory, in a specch defend- 'ng the extension said the British of the Russian people," he lieve in the value of annual annual gift to the "Bible Society mate.
Captain P. W. Lyons, D.S.P.. re desired to live on most friendly reports whether they are publish-in memory of their father. This arguos, but of a small handfuled carly or late, because they is a suggestion and not a request. turned from furlough, and Mr. terms with Turkey and were pre- of Bolsheviks.The Russian make a record either of growth
E. R. Hallifax reverted to his subpared to do anything reasonable to masses," he says, are comor retrogression from which A Scot and a Jew went into tantive appointment of Assistan ensure stability and be at peace
lessons for future guidancs can partnership as proprietors of an Superintendent of pletoly indifferent to their form of be drawn, but we think that they omnibus, to ply between Charing police.
llongkong with her neighbours-Reater.
OIL GRABBING DENIED, government. Some of them are would be a great deal more inter
Replying to Labour allegations " religious and like church-going, eating to the general body of the
that oil Interests had influenced but they care naught who is their public if they were published as collect the fares they, tossed for went to Manila and bent the bes1 British policy in Iraq, Sir Ausles soon after the period with they choice: the Jew won, appointed player there at tennis easily, win-Chamberlain divulged that the Czar or President or rufer. They treat as is possible. There was a himself conductor, and the Scot, ning the eeries,
The French cruiser Sully war. only demand peace, and that is special reason for the delay last
All went marry as reported aground on a sandbant the last thing Bolshevismi will year, weadmit, but cannot we have journey.
theso reports a little earlier this a marriage bell, the hug was in Along Bay: Tonkin. give them." Ono teiling phrase of
year?
orowded with fares, the little Yid A telegram froin Londen stater which the Count makes use is that
danced round with his tickets that plans had been adopted in the revolution, the Russian
and puncher, rattled the pennies the Government for the construe in his bag and was as happy as tion of new fortifications, a new peasant lost sight of the one thing
Larry, At Highgate, the bus large naval dock, and increased
Sir Absten Chamberlain added. that he did know, and that was
pulled up and the Jew ran for barrack accommodation in Hong-tors and trustees we cannot bargain that the reply was:-"As manda- thut he knew nothing."
ward to congratulate his partner, kong. The standing garrison was whom he found to his horror to be increased by the addition of away the rights and interests of Regarding the fature of this!
Something new and unconven- his head twisted backward. At ing of two Chinese regiments.
sitting stone dead at the wheel, 500 British soldiers, and the rais-Iraq in exchange for a concession great country, the view is ex-
to British tional in the way of cinema pic-the inquest the coroner's jury
capitalists."(Mini- pressed that nothing is to be turca figures as the chief attrac found that deceased had died from at the Union Church Literary Club
sterial cheers). Mr. Percy H. Holyoak lectured the expected from
Russians tion at the Queen's Theatre in a dislocated neck! The Hebrew on "Morocco: it's people, customs Mandate was adopted by 260 votes motion prolonging the themselves, and the only hope of the current programme. This to this day, has never ceased to
116,-Reuter, the country is either its division is "The Wizard of Oz," featuring thank Jehovah for the fact that and tragedies," exhibiting lantern favourite Larry he won the toss. popular into spheres of influence by the Semon. It is a rather fantastic big Powers, or well-organised production, in which striking exploitation of its resources by spectacular effects, humour and foreign interests. This, says the thrills are cleverly interwoven. The children especially will en- Count, may seem unthinkable to
joy it, as it is really a fairy story those who imagine that Russia is translated into life; whilst there country like others, but he is also much in it to delight the
adult. asserts that she is actually a country without a national boing. pictures, including some of the Thesa and other views which are big Football Cup matches, and af put forward
admittedly very funny Mack Sennet comedy unorthodox and are hardly likely complete an excellent programme
Cross and Highgate Hill. As they Mr. H. R. Hancock, of the frin both wished to be conductor, and Messrs. Shewan Tomes and Co.
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A meeting was held at .the Kowloon Institute. to view the plans of the proposed new St The Rev. T. W. Pearce was a Among those present were the Andrew's Church, Kowloon, pointed a member of the govern
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Rovs. F. T. Johnaton, J. H. France,
Mr. A. J. Raymond presided at F. Icely; and Messrs. E. Osborne, the half-yearly meeting of the Pryer, E. C. Wilks, E. C. Lewis, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. AW. C. Jack, and J. Welsh. dividend of £1.10s, and of £1 per The wedding took place at the share was approved. The chair- Union Church of Mr: Alan Steven. man's speech was noteworthy for son, the popular assfatant mana- the absence of any comment on ger of the Dairy Farm, and Miss Chinese affairs.
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