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TUNING
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
ANGLO-FRENCH DEBT.
JUNK MOLESTED.
LET NO MAN DE BOREY HE HAS POINTS STILL OUTSTANDING. DONE GOOD, BECAUSE OTHERS CON- CERNED WITH HIM HAVE DONE EVIL
Fielding.
London, May 18. At the conclusion of further conferences between Mi Peret and
CHINESE GUNBOATS TAKE
ARMS AND LICENCE,
How a trading Junk was
headed and far too shrewd and practical to want to start anything. in the nature of. a revolution, Thoy may, and do, feel keenly about their grievances, but they have learned from experience that the best and the wisest way to
The Empress of Russin is due Mr. Winston Churchill and niso molested by gunbontà, flying the secure redress is not to embark here at 4 p.m. to-morrow, and will Franco-British financial experts Chinese naval flag, is told in a to settle the outstanding points report which has been made to on the path of revolution, but to berth at Kowloon No. 5 Wharf.
on which an agreement was not
the local police. operate through constitutional |
reached in previous negotiations, Baroness Clifton and Mrs. Sa communique was issued stating The junk in question is No. channels when matters arlse
Barton, wife of H. M. Consul that the ground had been 4144, the master of which states which call for attention. We have General at Shanghai left for Home thoroughly explored in the spirit that on April 23rd he left Hong- no fear for the future of the Homon Monday in the R.M.S. Empress of cordiality and a friendly tone. kong for Wong Kok, Heung Shan.
M. Peret returns to Paris to district, with a cargo of kerosene. land or the Empire, for we believe of Canada.
morrow to meet the
He reached that place in safety, French that the masses will in the final
The Chinese Catholic Young Cabinet and hopes to return to and after putting his cargo ashore resort be always willing to listen
Men's Society are holding their London shortly. In the meantime, stayed there for fifteen days. On reason and common-sense.opening ceremonies on Sunday French experts will continue con one of the days he was there five flag; approached. He estimated Foreign trouble-makers would next at 2 p., in the Hall of the versations with experts at the gunboats, flying the Chinese naval
British Treasury.-Renter.
there were about a thousand doubtless wish the facts were Society, at 16, Caine Road:
soldiers on the boats. One of otherwise, but again and again
them came alongside the junk, and twelve man boarded her. They demanded to be shown their arms and ammunition, and when they found them, they confiscated them. Before leaving they also took the master's licence, and notes to the value of $108 in Hong kong currency, a
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926.
A Chinese was accidentally
the British working man has killed by being buried under a
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shown that he refuses to be made fall of earth while, excavating on. a tool of by glib-tongued agita-the hillside at No. 6 Bowen Road.' tors. The early calling sit' of the His body has been taken to the
Public Mortuary. general strike may be taken ps another proof of that point, and an outcome which must have caused as much chagrin to foreign ill-wishers na it has brought gratification to all who have the future welfare of the Empire át
heart.
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COTTON MATTERS.
BASIC SELLING PRICES.
London, May 18.
A private meeting of the Ameri. A Chinese, living at 25, Banham Strand, was bitten by a dog he can Section of the Master Cotton longing to his father. He was spinners Federation of Manches- sent to the Government Civil Hoster, has unanimously approved n American yarns and has empower. to Kennedy Town.
ed the Short Time Committee to pital; and the dog has been sent plan for basic selling prices of take a ballot on a scheme they will draw up as soon as possible for a plan to be worked in con- junction with short time.-Router.
Mr. R. Taylor, of 119 Wongnel chong Roud, has reported to the police that his son was bitten by a dog in Kennedy Road yesterday. Popular Castle Peak.
The boy was treated by Dr. danger. The popularity of Castle Peak Valentine and is not in and some of the beaches along the Neither the dog nor its owner have road thereto la, accord. been identified.
indication. ing to present
Two coolies were sent from the going to be even greater this
it was last. On Sai On Knitting Factory, Kilung year than
While they were
having a rest in Des Voeux Road came along Central, three men and stolen one of the bundles valued at $160.
May
ITALIAN CONSUL.
PROMOTED TO PEKING.
Shanghai, May 19.
The North China Daily News states that Commander Rossi has been appointed Italian Charge d'Affaires in Peking. His depar- ture will make the American Con- sul, Mr. Cunningham, the Senior Coneul 'here--Reuter.
FRANCS STILL FALLING
UNREALISED HOPES. Sunday afternoon, no fewer than Street, Shamshuipo, with two bun-
38 motor care and 17 motor cycles dies of singlets. (many of them combinations) were counted stationary either at Castle Peak itself or along the road towards Tsin Wan. The oc- cupants of these vehicles were out for the afternoon, either bathing During the week ended or en picnics, and when the above 15th there were two fatal Chinese figures are carefully pondered it cases of small-pox, three cases of will be seen that the number or diphtheria one British, one Portu- people must have been quite large. guese and one Chinese, of which one The point of it all is that the proved fatal, one case of enteric people of Kowloon are taking an fever and one case of influenza re- increasing
of the ported. During the 24 advantage heaponing motor car, either by ended May 17th there were possession or hire, to get out and further Chinese cases of small- enjoy the healthful pleasures of pox..
In consequence of the beaches that are opened to them
The following vessels are ex-selling, francs further slumped to by means of this coastal road. At Castle Peak there are now well pected to be in wireless communi- closing at France 172, Belgium over 20 matsheds, but it is to be cation with Hongkong to-day: 173 Reuterspecia hoped that the Government does Empress of Russia, Nagano Marn, Madison, ...Daviken, totally the Castle Peak beach to President become as hopelessly overcrowded Tango Maru, Van Overstraten, Fooksang, Meriones, as is the beach at- Repulse Bay. Takada,
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hours two
OVER 170 TO £
London, May 18.
continuous
on the junk were not taken.
Two small cannon which were
A WAR ECHO.
AMERICA REFUSES CAPT. KARL BOYED.
Washington, May 18. The State Department has ine dicated that it felt that public opinion in the United States would support the reported action of the American Embassy in Berlin 're; fusing to visa passport for Captain, Karl Boyed, an ex-naval attache to the German Embassy in Washington, whose dismissal from Washington for a violation
of the neutrality laws of America, was one of the dramatic Incidents. leading up to the entry of the United States into the war, Reator..
INDIAN DISTURBANCE.
SERIOUS AFFAIR IN BENGAL
Calcutta, May 18, communal disturbance at Kharagpur, Bengal, resulted in
seriously injured Reuter. Ave persons being killed and 21.
One aspect of the calling off of the general strike at Home, which is worthy of more than passing notice, is the disappointment which this development must have been to extremists in various part of the world who had hoped that Britain would be plunged into red revolution as a consequence of the We all unfortunate upheaval, know the extent to which Soviet Russia held this thought, for the Trade Union leaders of that coun- try were quick to seize the op- portunity of showing their "sympathy" with the British workers. Within a couple of days of the ordering of the strike. Is it not time that the Govern- Kinngsa, Atsuta Maru, Koteu the Central Council of the Soviet ment recognized and shouldered Maru, Mishima Marue, Hosang, Trade Unions passed a resolution its duty of providing, at the public Kidderpore, Eumacus, Tjiliwong, calling upon the whole member expense, some bathing facilities Totomi Maru, Thitaroem
for the public either somewhere Tainun. ship to contribute to the British along the Castle Peak Road or at: Strike Fund. Without even wait- Castle Peak itself? Or must
An old Scottish lady was en- things be allowed to go on, willy- Shanghai ing for a response to this order,nilly, until we get a condition of elaborate praparations are being gaged in teaching her little grand- National Hardware Men's Asso- the Council transferred a consi-'affaire comparable to the unlovely made by local Chinese to celebrate daughter the most perfect of aup ciation
state of Repulse Bay? If there the anniversary of May 30. One plications, the Lord's Prayer. The Atlantic City that he opposed the What was true of Russia was were just a little governmental en- full day's holiday, it is proposed, pious lady gravely and slowly re- purchase of automobiles on the
terprise in this direction it would shall be given all classes. It is hearsed the short,
simple instalment plan because, it made well known for extravagance... true of the professional agitators make all the difference betweer to be noted that no other form of sentences "so
the all, and
Instead of buying autos by child re- of other countries as well, in the the present consistent grumbling celebrating the day is mentioned, us
them demurely until instalment," Mr. Fernley said to a sense that all pinned their faith and pleasurable appreciation. In- and in all probability the an- peated on the possibility of a real revolucidentally, there's going to be a nouncement in question comes she came to the words "Give us reporter, "we ought to emulate the
parking problem at Castle Beak from student sources.
his summer if Sunday's numbers.
derable sum to London.
tion breaking out in England. We
d, leaving road width for one car
and
in
Several Chinese organs
have stated that'
The
The Very Idea!
Secretary T. J. Fernley of the
declared recently in
this day our daily bread," when young Philadelphia. bookkeeper. the child looked suddenly into her
George, said this young Not even the picture of Sun Yat-face and earnestly added the naive fellow's wife, we have now got. notice that even a Canton journal row very much. The road on
which the cars now line up is only sen is to be permitted in the rooms request, "Ay, and butter on't $1,000 in the savings bank.
"Great!" said George. Finel" devotes, much space to a lengthy just wide enough for two to pass of students at Tung Chi Univer, granny."
"His wife gave him a thought- article in which the strike is re-abreast and if there is a long unaity, an engineering and medical
"And we're the only family in ferred to as evidence of the de- broken line of parked cars allow college at Woosung, where recent Miss Alma Currie, high school ful look.
this street, she went on, that cadence of a "dwindling Empire."
only, there will be serious incon-ly all pupils professing to be, ad-girl, discovered gold under her The writer of that article does not venience and not a little danger toherents to the Kuominting Party own doorstep near Teague, Texas, hasn't got an automobile,
The gold was in the shape of coïns
""But we've got something," It is have been ordered to quit. attempt to predict the results of opposing through traffic. $1.00
u matter well worthy the attention Kiangsu Commissioner of Educa- and totalled $37,000 in value. The said George, that no other family
farm on which the treasure was has." tion. has likewise forbidden the found was occupied a few years the strike, but he asserts, that the
of the police.
study of Kuomintang literature: struggle "will strengthen the
ago by a man supposed to have It appears that the students do not operated a gambling and drinking unity of the world workers and
mean to take this lying down.
resort. further revolutionise the Euro
They assert their right under the Constitution to read whatever pean working-class," Other com-
books they please or become affili ments by Canton extremists also,
ated to any political party. Both go to show that the opinion was
sides are reported in the Chinese widely held in these circles that
press "to have gone to extremos in the dispute. the strike signalised the break-up of constitutionaliam in
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In view of these and other prognostications, it is assuredly comforting to feel that the strike leaders at Home soon perceived the dangers of a prolongation of the dispute and agreed to call the mon back to work provided the negotiations for a settlement. of the coal question were resum- ed. We have always held, und there are plenty of incidents which could be cited in support
of the submission, that the British
masses are inherently sane, level
12.09
Des
LORRY OVER BANK.
This picture of the modern
day, on
Will show you what is..
wrong.
The young make love: much
quicker,
but it doesn't last as long.
Many hearts are readily touched by suffering at a distance,
"What, George??
"The price of one," said he."
Our sympathy is divided equal- ly between the man who was arrested for stealing Vallverware right after the doctor told him t take two ten-spoons after each meal,
Instructions to the Fasciats resemble those of the mother to the nurse concerning the baby. They are to find out what the people of Rome are doing and tell them not to.!
EXCHANGE RATES.
Rugby, May 18,
170 *17175
20.45
20.44
38.59
84.45
1994
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45%
Shanghat
Yokohama
2/11%
1/11 4.86.0
181
18.17
22.87
104%
30.75
the road six feet in front, like best?" the driver of motor lorry No.
75%
1/5.31/32
2/2
just look at the weather we have had
of Pak Wal, applied his brakes
20%
and swerved to the right.
The wiser the man the harder it
British Wireless.
The lorry went over a bank Into is to discover what he knows. a paddy field where it overturned.
Letting someone else do your thinking is just thoughtlessness.
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TWO MEN INJURED.
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Here is the Intest. "Now, my
boy," said the Scots minister, "you"How do you do, Mrs. Robinson? Owing to a water buffalo cross-knew the parables. Which do you It must be five years since I last Baw you!" "Yes, it must be. The boy hesitated and then re- But why have you never called 1676, which was travelling in the plied like that ane whaur round to see me?" "My dear, New Territories near the village somebody loafs and fishes."
In 1924, according to latest There were three men and one Mothers don't complain if baby Canning Town has the cham- returns, 1,218 persons were killed women in the vehicle, and two of daughter cries for the moon, pion egg eater in the person of in the mines of Great Britain, and the men were injured in the face, Walt'll she grows up-she'll want Essie McLean, who recently
devoured 42 eggs at one sitting. 197,111 disabled for more than arms, and legs. They were taken the earth. three days.
to hospital