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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 9, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
loss for the present impasse in the coal mining industry. The geno rat strike was bound to collapse
THE GOOD IS ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL, because of its obvious injustice, THE BEAUTIFUL IS GOOD! Whittier.
and inherent wrong, and Mt. Bald
The weather forecast up to noon win is not to be praised so much
to-morrow is-Eastwinds, bocause of the collapse of the moderate; overenst, some rain. iri strike. but for the manner
The Empress of Asin left" Kobe which he conducted matters dur this morning at 6 o'clock and is ing its run. That he has por-due at Nagasaki to-morrow, at the' mitted the present hopeless fall- same hour. ure of all the costly winter-time
Found dead at Fanling Railway efforts to avoid an open breach Station, the body of a Chinese road in the coal-mining industry is to coolie, employed by the FWD
has been taken to the Kowloon have committed an error, although mortuary. In saying so much we do not over-
the look the fact that. problem is no full of unusual difficulties Everyone will agree that it is not right that one particular industry should.. enjoy special treatment
Mr. A. D. Barretto of Saigon, formerly of Hongkong, drow Lance. Gaye in the Calcutta Derby Sweep. He sold a half share for 12,000 rupees.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS COUNCIL.
RESULT OF COMMITTEE'S ENQUIRY.
::
AFTER BASEBALL MATCH.
INDIAN ASSAULT CASE.
At the Central Magistracy this morning, before Major Willson, a NEW SCHEME EVOLVED. summons was brought by A. L. Rumjahu against Omar Ismail for London, June '8.
an assault alleged to have been A resume of the conclusions committed after a baseball match of the Committee which recently
at Happy Valley on Saturday, Mr. met at Genova to consider the pro-Gordon Lensk appeared for the posed reconstitution of the League complainant, whilst Mr. L. D.. Council, and which, provisionally, Turner was for defendant, who will re-meet on June 28, was given brought a cross-summons.. by Viscount Cecil in the House of Mr. Leasks anid he thought the Lords.
case should not have been brought He stated it was agreed there into Court. should be nine instead of six non- - His Worship-I am going tá permanent members to hold office ask if there is any chance for it Passengers disembarking frem for three years, one-third to retire to be settled out of Court. and be made a charge upon the the President Jackson from Manila annually, of which only one might Mr. Leask: If your Worship
Montrose, Mrs. Madelin-Valentini, agreed by a two-thirds majority opportunity. thing has been done as an ex-wife of the French Consulat pedient and the nation has paid Manila, Captain and Mrs. RB, otherwise those retiring not to away millions of pounds it has a Lovett and Major L. Ahern of be re-eligible until three years which we would settle would be
the United States Army.
later.
the withdrawal of the summone The idea was that there would issued by Mr. Rumjahn.
enable Mr. Leask:-I am afraid that if diphtheria and a Chinese case of be rotation: of office to small-pox were reported. During members. sitting on the Council as that is my friend's attitude, there last week two Chinese cases of non-permanents henceforth to as- can be no question of a settlement. small-pox were notified, a British
His Worship-I will put it back. for the moment.
perty is easy to operate; doos Frest of the country, but when the yesterday were MrE OF R.be re-elected if the assembly will adjourn it, we may have an
not injure papers or fabrics and the cost is insignificant. Your inspection of Phomene
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MARRIAGE.
right to expect the success of that expedient and not a "hopeless
..
On Monday a British case
of
elected
Mr. Turner:The only lines on
Mustard & Co.,Ltd. breakdown and catastrophic strike. It would have been cheaper and wiser to have faced the trouble last August or to have continued paying until the differences were adjusted. Unless Britain is going to cease to be a coal producing SCHNEIDER-FRANCO.—At the German Consulate and afterwards country (an unthinkable proposi at the Chapel of the Convent of tion) the present differences will the Little Sisters of the Poor, Tungshan, by Monseigneur A. have to be adjusted at some time of fresh milk by, condensed milk saw no reason why it should not) Fourquet, Canton, Bishop of Can- ton, on Saturday, June the 5th, 1926, C. A. Schneider to Alda Augusta Franco.
case of diphtheria and four Chisume office immediately nese cases of enteric. There was instead of at the next New Year: one death from amall-pox and The now scheme would make the
Mr. Turner asked that a date.be three from enteric.,
Council fourteen, assuming that fixed for hearing, saying he would- Germany came in in September, or let his Worship know if a settle In the London Zoological sixteen if the United States and ment were reached.. that: The complete replacement was rather a large number, but he Society's annual report it is stated Russia entored. Admittedly, this Later on, the case was adjourn-
ed until this afternoon.
The Telegraph
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1926,
THE HOME STRIKE.
L
Although it is quite true that there is something to hope for in the very fact that negotiations, bes tween the owners and the miners are going to be resumed, the state ments which have been made by
either side still reveal adamant
has notably reduced tuberculosis." We understand that this condensed milk is supplied by the Nestle Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Co.
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COUNTESS OF CATHCART.
TO BE MARRIED ACAIN NEXT WEEK
work successfully. The Commit- tee thought that three of the non- permanents should represent South American Statós.--Reuter,
ANOTHER MEETING CONVENED.
Geneva, June 8. The Session Committee on the composition of the Council has
London, June 3. fixed June 28 for the adjourned
The Daily Graphic announces extraordinary session of the Coun- that Vern, Countess of Catheart, cil, convening it before the meet-is engaged to Mr. Gideon Bois ing of the Assembly in September, sevain, of the well-known Dutch
American banking tanuly, Bois- This indicates that.no agreement sevain says he only met hor a few has been reached with Spain and weeks ago and that the marriage Brazil with regard to the future is being celebrated next week. coniposition of the Council.
Reuters American Service. Reuter.
or another and there is much lack of wisdom in all this dalliance.
With the arrival from Ilome of the newspapers covering the out- break of the strike, one learns for "
AT THE THEATRES. the first time of the actual monet- ary difference in wages which the
THRILLING PICTURE AT miners would have suffered if they
QUEEN'S. had accepted the owners pro-
The current attraction at the posal, based on the Coal Commis
Queen's Theatre is "Barbara sion's report. In some cases the Frietchie," a film which deals in "cut" amounted to as much as forceful manner with an incident of the American Civil War. ''It 38. 1d. per day and the averages nn old-world- tale, with loss to all classes of mine workers picturesque settings, and is note
as well overfbs ba, per day. On worthy not only for excellent the face of things-high cost of also for some vivid, portrayals of photograph and good acting, but living, etc. this suggestion was fighting between the forces of the an unfair and impracticable one, North and South. A strong love but we are inclined to think that out. The leading characters are interest is maintained through- the miners are too unbending taken by Florence Vidor and when they say they will accentsible for much of the success of Edmund Lowe, who dre respon-
no reduction of any kind. There a picture which is worth seeing. having a disastrous effect on the must be compromise on both sides The next change at the Queen's nation's industry and commercial
will be "The Night Club," starring and the only issue ought to be
One of the new steel giants rising. Wallace Beery
The tightest man in London is and Louise welfare and yet the contending
a in the Times Square belt In New one of proportions. Perhaps one Fazenda, which commences to the fellow who listened to parties have not abandoned their day in the not too distant future morrow, whilst beginning on Sun Sunday sermon and turned off his York will contain famous stones respective standpoints one » iota some of the loaders will recognise day "The Lost World," Sir Arthur radio when the collection was from all parts of the world.
In the facade of this building Conan Doyle's stupendous story, taken. will be shown for four days.
will be Africa, India, Scotland- The longest wearing trousers, or what have you. China's Tariff.
on record are claimed by Bayard From Scandinavia will come the From to-morrow until Saturday. Conner, 84, of Coatsville, U.S.A., fragment of a historic fortress," According to a statement made at 5.30 and 9.15, the attraction at who has worn the same pair for from Australia, comes a bit of stone Locker Lampson, Britain in the House of Commons by Mr. the Star Theatre will be "His 58 years. The trousers, still in from the rock on which Captain
now People." This picture la said to good condition, were stands definitely committed to the rank with the very best. It shows Conner's wife in 1868 and he has from the Imperial Palace, Berlin; woven by Cook stepped. Another comes granting of fariff autonomy for that fine old artist, Rudolph worn them regularly since, he another from the Municipal China on January 1st, 1929, The Schildkraut, Treaty in which this concession is characterization of David Comin-Bays.
in the glorious.
The story is simple. It finally drawn up, for the disturbed reveals the Cominskys, David and
attitudes all against, the pos- sibility of a resumption of work Britain is entering on the sixth
week of a coal strike which is
that really matters. The work- men say that they are quite pre-
pared to meet the owners again
to talk matters over but they will
not depart from their attitude of
no wages reductions and no longer hours. One wonders, in face of
·
that.
a stand like that, what earthly use
is a meeting at all unless the
to be recorded has not yet been sky.
THE STAR THEATRE.
The Very Sara!
He
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Idea!
The
Theatre, Paris, erected during the reign of Napolean III; a fragment:
owners are prepared to agree to
What the Bull Will Wear of Greek marble from the Diony
Imperial Palace in Japan. the mines re-opening on what they state of China has made progress Rose and their two children, Any observing man who has at san temple; stone blocks from the by the Tariff Commission extreme- Morris and Summy. They live in tempted to pat a bull wearing a have said are impossible terms.ly difficult. Whilst we are the the Ghetta. Morris is the student red necktie, has probably become great wall of China will be repre The owners, for their part, state first to agree in principle to China's and
father's favourite. fully aware, says a columnist, that sented, the Mayan, ruins of Yuca- that they canhot pay the same demand for the exercise of tariff Sammy is the fighter beloved by colour has its place in the field tan the Buda Burg, built by King Bela in the twelfth century, the rights, we must confess our sur his mother, who intiuitively senses of action and reaction-Editorial cathedral at Kheims; the Johore wages as now for the same amountprise, that Britain should be pre-his sterling traits. Sammy nur Note in a California paper.
the
· CORRESPONDENCE.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]
He law the boarder Itiss his
wife. E
You'd think that he'd have
scored her...
Causeway from Singapore to the Malay peninsula; the League of Nations building, Geneva; bits of. an Aztec. pyramid-and so on through historic spots of the ages. When these have been properly. installed by the masons it will be - possible for one to cover in a few glances a huge kaleidoscopic: BEC• tion of all times and all peoples. First Globe Trotter-"I just
The building is to be the now. passed by the ex-kaiser's home Paramount Theatre. and heard him singing."
But, shucks, he never aid
a word.
He used to be a boarder.
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Second Globe. Trotter What Eve"Mrs. De Trop has blue was he singing?"
First Globe Trotter-Ain't
Sonna Town
gonna reign no moʻ.".
blood in her veins.”
Adam"Haa abe taken anything for it?
of work as now, and that there pared to acknowledge that right tures the little family through its must be lowered costs of produc- China to her part by definitely in the love of Mamie Shannon and without at the same time requiring weals and woes, finding comfort tion pending the application of pledging herself to the abolition of her mother. The ending warms the recommendations of the Coallekin. As the new Article in the to an endearing pitch, fading out Commission and a possible reduc- proposed Treaty now stands, we with a smile and a tear in the are told, the two undertakinga ara. happy reunion of the Cominsky tion by that means, The Goy not interdependent. It would, in- family. ernment's proferred subsidy of deed, seem that Britain is willing three millions sterling has lapsed, to make a definite pledge herself, whilst merely expecting some sort and, although the Government is of, vague promise on the part of doubtless still prepared to help China. This is how we read Mr. to some extent, the amount of Locker Lampson's statement that before completing the negotiations, that help is at present an u Britain. "would undoubtedly ex- known quantity. There are not pect China at least to initiate mea- fow who think that the Govern sures extending a fair hope for mont might have done a little This lekin question has so long been the utlimate abolition of likin,”
Sir-At this nionent one important bridge game. It was a baseball from the top of the tower under debate and consideration that feels hopeful to know that acmore than the good woman could and the person who finds it receives As the Lord Provost said at we surely might have hoped for tive efforts are being made to bear. She took him to task so 10 cents from the merchant whose Edinburgh when presenting Mr, something a little more definite resume negotiations to end the bitterly for his boxehend play that name it carries. A roservoir car-
than Mr. Locker Lampson's words strike and boycott. I hope the slapped her face and pushed rics enough balls for three weeks, Stanley Baldwin with the Free-quoted above. "A fair hope of those who are vested with the her violently against the table. But dom of the City, the Frime Minis-ultimate abolition" is decidedly great responsibility of effecting Now she le suing for divorce, com- She: But you told me you can
vague and unsatisfactory. If the a settlement will bear in mind plalaing that he is addicted to so not meet your creditors." Powers on their part are willing to these words of a prominent Nor-veral other cruelties, such as He Oh bai Jove, that's ad concede tariff autonomy to Chino, thern Chinese "The things twisting her wrists. Somehow or awful fib. Why, 1 meetstofi nothing could be more reasonable that divide us are superficial, other one's sympathy goes out to wherever I go, really]" than to expect from the Chinese but the things that unite us are this lady. It is bad enough to be Government, a binding agreement fundamental. Yours etc. on its part simultaneously to put
INTERNATIONAL an end to lekin taxation:
Hongkong, June 8th, 1926.
mare.
tor has brought the country through one of the greatest crises in its history fu connection with the late general strike, but we do not hold the Prime Minister and his Government altogether blame
THE BOYCOTT.
It seems that a man in Chicago The town clock of West Chester, trumped his wife's ace during an U: S. A., every day at noon casts
beaten up, but as for having your One of the quickest ways partner trump your ace-well, did study astronomy you evor play Bridge?
boxing
taking up