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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1926.
Panios of the West of England,
DAY BY DAY.
THE WISEST MAN IS GENERALLY WHO THINKS HIMSELF, THE LEAST 50.-Bolleau.
by installing a when the Chairman went the "PYRENE" Fire length of saying that the coal in- Extinguisher, dustry could take an exampleE "PYRENE" will from what had been done in the kill fire without country's tin mines, adding that damago to the
the rehabilitation of the Industry engine, woodwork
The as. Tanda, which left Moji yesterday, is due here on the 30th
or upholstery. had béon effected without Guv-instant. Water spreads a ornment subsides or State aid of patrol fire; sand ia
any kind. inofficient and will put the onging out of action.. *PYRENE" Ex-
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The health return for the three We are not, of course, suggest-days ended on Monday showed one
Chinese case of diphtheria. ing that the two industries' are in identical positions, for each has
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CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor, Hongkong
Telograph..
THIEVES AT CASTLE PEAK.
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AT THE THEATRES,
THE MANILA VODAVIL COMPANY.
The latest company of artists to visit the Colony is the Manila All Star Vodavil Company, which last Sir,---For the sake of others of night, after the usual picture pro-
gramme at the Star Theatre, Kow your readers, may I through your foon, entertained with a variety columns, give a warning concern of Itoms. The house was well ing thieves at Custle Penk?
Yesterday, at about 5 p.m., corilled, and applause was given tain articles, including the follow generously.
There was nothing very" ori ing were stolen from my car: pair ginal about the programme, but
tinguishor is amali its own special problems, Nor do passenger by the President Adams, glasses, a knife, some loose change all the players combined together"
in size, light in weight and onsy to handle.
we intend to infor that, the coal settlement is a matter which merely rests with the 'owners.. It
Mrs. A. Morley Horder was a
York vin which left for New ports, yesterday,
"PYRENE" does is, indeed, obvious to anyone who lightermen there have gone onpicion is that two, non, in ordinary of jazz their efforts should provo
not deteriorato and is always ready. .for .heo.
Mustard &Co.,Ltd.
Incorporated under the Companica
has followed the crials of the past few years that the industry will only retrieve its position if and "PYR- Koop a ENE" handy on when the owners and miners make car and ju garage. | joint sacrifices. It is not merely a question of the one side, or the other giving way; both have their part to do. Unhappily, not only do the miners appear to have adopted an unwarrantably stub- born attitude in regard to the question of wages and hours, but WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT. the owners also full to realise their obligations er to appreciate The marriage of Miss Alda the gravity to the nation of a Augusta Franco and Mr. C. A. continued deadlock on the issues Schneider will take place on involved: We are hoping to hear. Saturday, June the 5th, at 3 p.my
Ordinances Jongkung,
16-17, Connaught Road Contrål.
A Canton report states that strike, and that the working of argy, is on consequence impeded,
Thanking you for the courtesy Chinese garb, were the thieves. of your columns.-Yours etc.,..
J. H. GELBART. Kowloon, May 26th, 1926.
Beggars are often accused as thieves, but yesterday the palice to make the evening bright and were doing excellent work in cheery. Included in the cast are jazz-band players, and to lovers keeping beggars away. My sus-
pleasing. Several ting songs wore niso rendered, Maggie, de- seribed in the programme as the brightest of all, provided much fun, speaking and singing with a distinctly Scottish accent. The finale was provided with an entor- WEARING OF MEDALS. taining scene which, was well-
acted. The Company is "appeur-" Sir,-As there does not appearing again to-night and it is an- It is reported that Mr. Sun Foto be any definite ruling as to nounced there will be a completo.
upon which occasiona minature change of programme. medais should be worn, esteem it a great favour if you can supply the necessary informa- tion.
A registered letter containing a bank draft, reported, to have been lost from the Naval Yard a short time ago, has been found.
has been nominated for the post of Chairman of the Committee of the Kwangtung Provincial Govern
ment.
Acting Chief Inspector W. Kent is leaving by the s.. Malwa on Saturday on furlough. He is accompanied by his family, will be back in November..
shall
The Eternal Three," a power- ful and moving picture, dedicated to the physicians and surgeons of the world, is also showing.
This enquiry is made from the
QUEEN'S THEATRE. civilian point of view. One soine, times sees civilians wearing mina
There is a really excellent film - and ture decorations and medals at being shown at the
certain efficial functions, but there Theatre now," this being "Th
Queen's is always the doubt whether such Siren of Seville," which stars The big prize of $10,500 for the display is the correct thing with Priscilla Dean. It is full of mufti Personally, I must say thrils, has a strong love interest. in the Chapel of the Convent of even as we write, that a spirit ofing Steeplechase, was won by that favour the keeping alive of and is noteworthy for fine acting. the Little Sisters of the Poor, reasonability will assert itself in seven members of the Easma Club traditions by such outward and The bull-ring scenes are especial- Tangshan. Canton. No invita-
"R" Sweep, 3rd Hace of the Fun
tians will be issued, hat all friends / both campa, and that in the very who signed themselves the "Seven visible signs, and I do not think ty good, whilst the photography
Society Building. Canton.
will be welcomed at the Chanel near future the admirable recom- and to a reception afterwards-at mendations put forward by the the China Baptist Publication Coal Commission will be made the
Fungshang
basis of a new agreement leading to lasting peace in an industry which is essential to the nation and the Empire..
The Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1926.
What Communism Means. The cruelty and oppression and THE COAL DEADLOCK. the criminal neglect of the humanities which has been char- acteristic of Russian administra-
Aces."
Messrs. Carmichael and Clarke write us stating that there were some mis-statements in our report yesterday of the chartering of the 5.8. Lok Sun, one
of which was that Mr. G. D. Arthur was taking charge of the vessel.
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In view of complaints received from the Government Civil Hospital regarding disturbances caused by the firing off of crackers in that were vicinity, several Chinese
In each case prosecuted to-day." the defendant was fined $5.
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Through eating unwholesome fish on board cargo bout No. 842, two Chinese women have been re- moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital, and the body of a man who died through eating some of the same
that the wearing of minatures
"Decorn-
should be confined to decorations throughout is much above the only. Would it not be possible to average. Included also in the programme is a Century comedy, notify the public that tions and Medals should be worn" "A Fiivver Vacation," whilst the whenever it is permissible that news reel gives some excellent pictures of the arrival of the they may be?
Australian cricketers in England.
Enclosing my card.-Yours etc.
UNCERTAIN.
Hongkong, May, 25th, 1928.
Sydney, Mr. Bruce, the Federal Prime Minister, has stated definitely that the Govern-
ment will invite a member of the Royal Family to open the new} Federal Parliament at Canberra in 1927.
Mr. R. B. Salisbury's "Quaints" are appearing: at the 9.15 p.m. show in that great favourit, "No, No, Nanette."
TO:DAY.
Dollar on demand 25.2.13/16d. Lighting-up......
7.01 p.m.
The Very Idee!
If the coalowners, and mineration ever since that sorry country do not come together within the embraced the political creed of Bolshevism will surely go down in course of the next few days, it history as one of the most dis- would scom inevitable, that astrous and saddest paradoxes in fresh crisis will have to be faced the annals of communal govern
ment. Theoretically, Bolshevism at Home, for the Prime Minister is supposed to contain highly fish has been taken to the Mortuary. has clearly intimated that the Gov- idealistic aims and is preached as A fox terrier bitch, owned by Mr. ernment cannot hold open beyond being the road by which oppress-Stevenson, of the Dairy Farm, the end of this month the offer of /ed masses may find an Elysium of Pokfulam, bit a Chinese woman em- freedom and well-being, but the
Over five hundred guests were been particular, she wouldn't be any further subsidy. For the pre-experiment of its application in ployed at the house. The bitch was
fostering pups at the time, and has presented and enjoyed the hospi- one. produced poverty, sent dealock, both sides are un-Russia has
'been sent to Kennedy Town. The tality of the club, so graciously ex- woman was treated at the Govern-tended by Dr. Ward and Generat When Roosevelt was governor doubtedly to blame, and in his misery, dark social evils and vice that has made the word "Bolshe
ment Civil Hospital. recent letters to the Mining Asso-vik" synonymous with all that is
Farnsworth, of the souse commit- of New York a Rough Rider in ciation and the Minere' Federation bad in depraved humanity. Yea- A Chinese woman attempted to Years Ago."
tee-From "Albany Society Thirty Arizona wrote to him from
Arizona jail cell asking help and Ir. Baldwin has had the courage terday's telegram from Riga, tell-commit suicide by taking an over
explaining his predjenment. ing of the suffering among the dose of opium, and was sent to the Colonists in Palestine have u "Mr. Roosevelt, I am in jail for 10 May 30 with characteristic children of Russia, will, we are Kwong Wah Hospital. The body plan for producing hydro-electric shooting a lady in the eye," his
bluntness. Whilst it is admitted that the owners have made ad- vances on their original, position, their attitude is described by Mr. Baldwin as "uncompromising," and the miners are taken to task for the absolute refusal to con- Sider any alteration of wages and
hours.
Ar
of another woman has been taken power by transfer of Mediter letter read. "But I didn't intend to the Public mortuary. She is believed to have.committed suicide aqueducts to the Dead Sea. The tal. I was aiming at my wife."
ranean sea water through pipes or to shoot the lady. It was acciden-. by swallowing some fluid.
poisonous
sure, have touched the hearts and aroused the sympathy of all. When one thinks that no fewer than 650,000 waifs and strays are Hiving under appalling conditions, some in institutions ruled by heartless taskmasters, a great de- 'sire to be of some practical help wells up instinctively. The diff culty is the finding of a way, and doubtless one or other of the great International relief agencies will Recently, the owners complain- concern itself with the task. The ed of what they described as con- real danger, of course, lies ahead, tinued political interference with for the world will not suffer this neglect of the child-life of to-day the industry, but the Prime Minis-without reaping the inevitable cor- ter has neatly countered that paint sequences of to-morrow. There a by declaring that what, is termed a grave and ominous danger in political interference "has been the existence of a youthful army of uncontrolled, uneducated and untirely due to the, incapacity, now
demoralised men and women The timely assistance of the crew
and again so conspicuously shown
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ancient lake would be made to give
Young men in the Irkutsk dis- up 350,000 horsepower. It takes the Jews to bring the Dead Sea to trict of Siberia are kidnapping,
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When along came the spider To sit down beside her, The scare he intended fell flat; For modern Miss Muffet, She landed a buffét Which knocked him from
under his hat.
We are asked to state that Mr.life. Leung Koon-tai, the proprietor of the firm of Messrs. Koon Tal and Co., carrying on business at 24 Des Voeux Road Central as import and export merchants, freight brokers, coal merchants, stevedores and general contractors, is in no way connected with Mr. Leung Kam-shui, alias Leung, Kam-tai, of 21, Lee Yuen Street East, steve- dore, a report of the hearing of whose petition in bankruptcy was recently published in this paper.
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young girls and selling them to Chinese. In one instance a youth kidnapped a 17-year-old girl and took her across the Chinese bor- der, where he sold her to a Chinese for $25.
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Advice to mothers: Don't let it mike you just sick" if your young son has sneaked out brown....
Jesse L. Lasky, Adoph' Zudor, paper to smoke. Give him dad's Louis B. Mayer and Carl Laemmle old pipe. If someone has got to are the "big boys" of the motion be sick it might just as well bo picture game. You seldom hear the boy.
of these men they are behind the
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blonds and brunettes and sheilas A freight train rounded a sharp. and it might well be that Russia, of a police launch, yesterday whom you do know well. These curve near Des Moines at such a by the industry, unlike other in- unless there is some big effort to morning, prevented a suicide by a are the babies who put up the speed that a car jumped the track, They broke its couplings and rolled. dustries, to settle Its disputes. for stem the downward trend of passenger on the Star Ferry. The money to make pictures.
things, will
be the breeding man in question, a leper being boss the stars, Pola Negri, Gloria down an embarkment. With the itseliv' We are reminded in this ground of a force highly danger- escorted from Hongkong to Shum- Swanson, Norma Shearer and air brakes set, the train stopped. connection of the steady progress ous to the social order of the Chun, made a dash for the water others like clerks get handled in A brakeman recoupled the sec tions and tho train went on its whole world. The problem is ore from the lower deck of the ferry which in recent years has been that international statesmen can-
a department store. when it was in middle harbour. A
way, the wrecked car not being made in the tin mining industry not afford to ignore.
police launch was pussing, and in And where did these film goda missed until a crew of Inter in Cornwall. That industry had
response to algnals hastened to come from, each of whom is worth train saw it. There is, it seoms, considerable the spot and the crew pulled the more than a half dozen million" for very many years been in the
nervousness about the fate of the unfortunate man out of the water. dollars a piece? Only a few years When you kiss a girl in a quiet doldrums, and it became evident house in which Judge Jeffreys is He was able to resume his journey ngo each was an obscure cog: spot, it's quiet only because she that a thorough reorganisation said to have been lodged at Dorch to the border..
Lasky was a vaudeville actor; can't very well talk while being would be necessary if anything ester for the Bloody Assizes. At
Zukor, q clothing antesman; Mayer kissed. Although Captain Loriga hos Dorchester 292 persons received
a Maihe lumber-jack, and Laemmle like a return to, prosperity were sentence of death from the ruffian- obtained permission to return to a music dépler in New York's Tin to be registered. The leaders of ly judge, and 340 were actually Macao and fly his plane to Mani-Pan Alley. the industry got together, and, huanged. At one period of history, it is believed that he will not by the application of needed re-the house associated with such attempt the fight. The uncer- story would have been razed to form, they have succeeded in the ground and the site kept arrive in Macao from Calcatta, reviving a decaying industry to empty. But to-day the house is the time it will take for him to an extent that was thought im for sale, and urgent efforts are return to Macap and the time ne to be made to secure it for the Censury to install the new motor, possible. Mention was made of public!. Who will maintain that is belloved Insulelent for him to that fact at a recent meeting of the English are not a sentimental accomplish the flight before the
end of the month. one of the biggest tin-mining com- race?
The Tokyo Bah market is one of the sights of Japan. It occupies 480,000 square foot and is an assó- Twenty-seven students of the ciation of 750 wholesalers and 552 tainty of when his new motor will Colorado School of Mines recently brokers who operate under the
were arrested on a charge of steal supervision of municipal authori ing a wheel-barrow valued at $10 ties. Two thousand fish mongers to use in an initation ceremony
and buyera from hotels and res taurants assemble at this market away You can't blame a spinster for each morning and carr being particular; if she hadn't from 800 to 1200 tons of fish.