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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
HE IS TRULY GREẤT WHO HATH A GREAT CHARITY.-Thomas a Kampio
A Chinese was killed yesterday by the noon train from: Kowloon, near the No. 47 Railway Briktige.
The Empress of Cañada, which. left Hongkong on May 14th, arrived at Vancouver on May 31st.
The Fire and Marine Insurance offices will be closed to the tran- saction of public business. on Thursday, June 3, (King's Birth day).
and to invite other Powers to follow suft, but at present the official Amurican attitude appears rather, one of interest in other countries reducing their armed forces than the undertaking of any such task herself. Prest dent Coolidge has given further (→ currency to that bellet by his latest statement, in which he stresses the desirability of a fur- ther limitation of armaments by European countries. The U. S. Senate's reservations to American entrance into the World Court have not increased European con- fidence in Washington's polier to wards international, questions, and, under the circumstances. there seems to likelihood of the United States, presenting any The eighth Hanoi Fair is to be definite plan for armament reduc- held this year from November 28th to December 12th Amongst tion. There was, a short while the participants will be traders ago, a very prevalent, belief that from the Straits Settlements. Ne- President Coolidge favoured limit-therlands Indies, the Phillippine Islands, Siam, Hongkong, China, ing the agenda of the League of
Korea, Japan and Macao. Nations' Disarmament Conference
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Wing Commander R. Leckie, D.S.0., D.S.C.. D.F.C., has beer appointed to H.M.S. Hermes, for duty as Senior Air Force Officer
(March 30).
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SINGAPORE' FOOD' PRICES.
SUDDEN RISE IN CONTRACTORS' RATES.
DUTCH SEAMAN DISCHARGED.
AFTER MEDICAL EXAMINATION.
Confirmation of the remarks of
After being remanded for the the Malay unofficial member at the defondant to be examined by a Inst meeting of the Legislative qualified medical practitioner at Connell regarding the increased the Government Civil Hospital, the cost of living is afforded by the Dutch senman, John Pater,, of the experience of one of the leading West Indies, who was charged hotel managers in Singapore, who before the Harbour Master, Lieut. told a Straits Times representative Commander G. F. Hole, with that no less than four of his con-refusing duty on board the 1.5. tractors had notified him that they Grange Park, again came up this
morning.
interided to increase rates.
In the case of. Ash the increase is 19 per cent as compared with pleading that he was suffering The defendant refused to work, prices in December of last your, from hernia, but after being the contractor explaining that he supplied with a truss he "still has had to pay higher wages to refused, saying he was still. In his fishermen to prevent them go-pain. ing to work on rubber estates.
As the result of the doctor's An increase in the price of eggs report he was discharged this has also been notified, the reason morning. given being that large numbers of the bukit fowls died in the recent drought and eggs are now searce
OTHER CASES.
temporary, there is unfortunately
Five bont mistressos and masters were ench fined $5, or five in Singapore.
It is interesting to note that days, for causing obstructions at whereas an egg could be purchas- the Ferry Farf. One master wax For using two printing ;resses,ed here for 2 cents in 1917 the fined $10, or ten days, for carrying other than passengere for which registration adnot price is now 81⁄2 cents, an increase cargo Mustard & Co., Ltd. to land armaments, calling an-
He was found to be other conference, preferably at been obtained, at No. 2 Wu On which means no less than $88.00 baggage, Washington, to deal with naval Lane, a Chinese was to-day charg-a year extra for this particular carrying twelve bags of sand. matters. But in view of presented before Major Willson and re- hotel, which uses 800 eggs a day.
Another contractor complains feeling, it hardly seems likely that manded for a week, on an appli-hut as a result of the dry wea-consequgat withdrawal of large
cation from the Director of Crim-ther affecting the market gardens, shipments of cattle. this proposal will be pushed for-ingl Intelligence,
he will be compelled to advance While the local conditions giving. ward.
The record of rainfall as regis-the price of vegetables by no leas rise to these increases may be On the general question of dia-tered at the Botanical Gardens for than 25 per cent armament, it is believed that the month of. May shows that in 18 America is against the abolition days there was no fall. The hea- viost fall was on May 21 with 1.39 of submarines, though willing to inches and the lowest on May 30 consider any reasonable proposals with .01 inchos, the total for the for limitation, but her attitude in month being 5.83 inches. regard to cruisers is not so clear,
A Jumble Salo was held at the though it is evident that she is Union Church Rooms yesterday dissatisfied with the present reafternoon in aid of charities. Mra J. Kirk Maconachie was in charge, lative strength of Britain, Japan assisted by a willing band of workers and herself On the whole, il and an apportable sum was realised would seem that at the present time most of the articles on sale had between 2.30 and 4 p.m., at which
WALLACE---On May 31st at Tsingtao, -10 Mr. and Mrs James H. Wallsee, a son, Michael Anthony.
The Telegraph
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2. 1926.",
AMERICA'S POLICY.
President Coolidge, in his
Memorial Day address, struck conference the United States i been disposed of..
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Damage to vacant land opposite King's Buildings in Nathan. Road was alleged against a Chinese
In the case of ment the in-no assurance that the 'increases erense is 15 per cent., and for will be temporary, the process of . less important customers than raising prices being a much easier
this hotel it will be 20 per cent. one than lowering them. The reason is said to be the Another factor which has raised restriction of the importation of the cost of living in Singapore is) cattle from Bangkok. Patani, Ke- the higher wages now demanded Jantan and the Siam coast, and the, by Chinose servants..
The Vorning Joen!
a good, if somewhat idealistic out to employ her influence in a note when he made a plea that quiet way to the end that the de- nations, should join in laying liberations may not end in fullure aside suspicions and hatreds to and we believe that in this task turf contractor who was charged you've had a hearty fill. You're gratuitous fees, it has
sented.
fi
before. Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with removing soil frem the lot. The defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $4,
The dinner hour is over, and in such matters as tips, and other been sittin' by the fireplace, with a lot argued. A man who has many of time to kill. You ask the wife coat room concessions at big what's doin', and she tells you, not hotels in New York says that the a thing. And then there's trouble" average tip of a woman to the brewin' when the doorbuil starts to controom flunkies la 10 cents ring.
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against the 25 cents, or more, from It's just a couple neighbours men. Waiters and taxi drivers. who've dropped in for a spell. The and maids in dressing rooms will wife is feelin' peppy and she rushes report the same. Is this entirely round pell mell to get the table thrift? "Partly," says an obser- ready for a game of cards or two. ver. "But the basis of it is that You're sleepy as the dickens, but men have come to possess a ges- ture of the bragart. They are You fight that drowsy feeling fearful of being considered cheap
a guflicient extent us to agree and capacity American presence amongst themselves upon methods at the gathering is duly appreciat- of mutual relief from the neces-ed by the other nations repre- sity of maintaining great land and sea armaments. It is per
The return of notifiable diseases Militant Nationalism.
for the 24 hours ending May 31 fectly true, as he said, that this
be- gives one Chinese case of small-pox Military dictatorships ave will be impossible if the nations
coming the fashion in Europe just and three Chinese cases of enteric constantly have in, mind resort to now, and the fact that Portugal fever. For the week ending. May war for the redress of wrongs has just become the latest of five 29 there were four cases of diph and the enforcement of rights. post-war examples of this type theria, two. Portuguese and two there's nothing you can do.
of thing, lends force to the argu-Chinese, death ensuing in one The trouble is, however, that man- ment that the Latin temperament case, two Chinese cases of enteric, kind has not yet sufficiently de-is not particularly well suited to both of which died and one Chinese with a twitchin' of the face. You and want to make a flash in front feel your head a reclin', an' you of their fellows, particularly trump your partner's acc. You're when there are women present. veloped a sense implying willing- the parliamentary form of Gov- case of small pox.
biddin' very crazy, in a suit you A woman is different. If there is ness to submit disputes to arbi-ernment. One finds that political
Charges of damaging the public cannot make. But you don't know any comment on the size of a tip revolutions are frequent in Latin tration, although, happily, there countries where there is a diflu pavement in Haiphong and Peking is a growing realisation of what sion of power, but that when Roads, by driving iron stakes into what you're doin' 'cause you just she immediately becomes the p
can't keep awake...
dignant party; flares, about and the ground, were brought against: The hours have never seemed so spouts indignation. And she geta the Court of International Justice there is a strong dictatorship" or
five cobblers before Mr. J. H. B. lead, there is a much more com-
long Your torture is a fright away with it." can do in this regard. The League placent and constant obedience
Nihill, at the Kowloon Magistracy You very soon are thinkin' that this morning. Greece and Italy,
The defendants they're going to stay all night. At of Nations, also, has proved its to orders.
were all said to have been seen last you serve some luncheon at the their mosquito bites. That was Americans pay 91 cents each for suc- utility on more than one occasion, Spain and Poland have all
cumbed to the rule of the strong driving small implements of vari- breaking of the dawn. The wife the average for every man, wo- and we believe the time will come military leaders, scheming polus sizes and shapes into the says, "Gee, I'm glad you came," man and child in the United ground for the purpose of erecting while you're just glad they've gone. States last year. This mosquito when this great organisation will ticians having been forced
tax of 91 cents amounts to $100,- play an even larger part in the of office. And it is significant to helters as a protection against
the rain. Fines of $3 were im- Teacher (To lisping pupil) 000,000, according to Mr. Arthur. notice that in every case, the dic- affairs of the world and be the tatorship is all on the side of in-posed in each case.
Now, tell me what a panther is..
Stringer, of the Gorgas Memorial Pupil The
who makes Institute. The damage was done medium through which many in-
panths.
by the malaria mosquito by tran- ternational differences will be ad-
smitting 3,000,000 cases of chills justed. We would like, however,
and fever.
over
out
and
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They were stranded on an is-
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I'm hungry." shouted Myrtle, And Jack replied, "Let's muku
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and through the U. S. tariff com- mission demanded to see the coat sheets. The fight, of the chemise ia merrily on! Who wears 'em
Twas found whilst strolling anyway in this day of feminine
tense patriotism and nationalism: There is no extraneous "interna- tionn?" influence to be seen
that the Rev. Father Buenaventura The ten children of Isaac J.. nothing but a fervent rallying G. Parades has been elected Forbes, of Leroy, U. S. A., city, to see the United States throw around the national flag. Na-
its rathér
Two great nations, Austria and becoming more Superior General of the Domini- the scales at more than unnecessary tions are thus scruples about linking up with Intense in their divisions, more can Order. The new Superior was With one exception each weighs Serbia, once went to war over a Provincial of the Philippine more than 200 pounds. Mr. Forbes pig. We are now waging the ambitious and certainly more the League, for we feel convinced possessed of vitality.
was one of a family of 11 Ken. Franco-American war of Islanda from 1910 to 1917, and on several occasions visited Hong- tuckians. Dictators--Musso- that if America only joined up, cords of the
chemise, says a New York writer. It seems that Uncle Sam got there would be registered an imini, Pangales, Pilsudaki, "Primo kong during his tenure of office. de Riviera and Cabecadas are the Superior of the Community
worried at the shiploads of pink. mense step forward in the diree- mainly the records of the
and flesh and maize and nile and canary and jade and tion of international amity.
peach time struggles of their respective and pastor of the well-known Church of the Holy Rosary. He
chemises that came to the country With regard to America's at countrico-struggles which were: is in his 60th year. titude towards the Disarmaments contended by
mainly, for the right to exist. It these "strong Conference, which President men" that the smooth, casy- Coolidge says she enters in the talking politicians, the men of arrangement and compromise, the utmost good faith, recent advices schemers and such-like, are out from Washington tended to in- of joint with the spirit of things dicate that her, policy would be just now and that it is mora ener conciliatory rather than aggres-getic nationalism that needs vi gorous expression. There is ob- sive, and passive rather, thanvious danger on that line, but the active. Even in Government cir- Latin peoples of South Europé eles it is apparently recognisedacem particularly well suited in temperament for spectacular de- that American diplomacy in monatrations of intense patriotic Europe has suffered somewhat of fervour, So far, not one of these a set-back in recent years, largely countries has provoked the resent- ment of any other, but Signor by reason of a certain, lack of Mussolini has, at, times, been dup- defuiiteness. In policy. At the gerously near to earning it. It is Washington Conference, the Unit- to be hoped that this militant na- ed States was in a position to tionalism will not go to its logical lengths; because that will inevita- Imake sacrifleas. in disarmament bly mean war.
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