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their spits out on the victora. All these things Indicato lack of die- cipline amongst the students, and until they learn to submit to au- thority, there can be little hope of their becoming really useful citizens, with a due sense of values. and a rightful outlook on life.
If the Chinese student wants to find an outlet for excess zeal, outside the sports, field, there are plenty of openings for him in the sphere of charitable and social work. That is will demonstrated here in Hongkong, where it is,reux- suring to realise that so many Chinese youths are keen on seizing the opportunities presented by the Boy Scout and St. John Ambulance movements. The training which is given under the auspices of these organisations is of real value, and, as a result of it; the
24, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
PHILOSOPHY DOES NOT LOOK INTO
PEDIGREES SHE DID NOT ADOPT PLATO AS NOBLE, BUT SHE MADE HIM SUCH-Seneca
Two Chinese cases of small-pox were reported on Tuesday.
There was a clean bill of in tho Colony yesterday..
Mr. F. C. Mow Fung has been appointed Secretary of the Kei Tack Motor Bus Company.
EUROPEANS AT LAW. Witness explained that
TAILORING PARTNERSHIP
DISPUTE.
amalgamated with a tailoring firm styled J. T. Shaw, who oc cupled the same premises.
RENT PENT,
In reply to Mr. Turner, witness Before Mr. Justice Wood, in said he felt responsible for the the Supreme Court this morning, real debt, and it had already been Mrs. A. Simpson, of 10 Fang Tai agreed upon to sign a promissory Terrace, Wongnolchong, was the note. He added that Mr. Sinip plaintiff in an action against Mr. son, who, it was stated was an health. Nägel, tailor, of 8, Des Voeux employee, collected $150 direct Roud Central. The amount claim from a customer before he left," ed was $817.86, which was on and also $20 after he loft. amount stated to be due to the Mr. Jones suggested this was plaintiff for items contained in because wages were owing to an account, prepared by the do- him. fendant, and rendered to the A document was produced from. plaintiff on March 22nd of this which Mr. Turner tried to show year. Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones was that Mr. Simpson was also a part- for Mrs. Simpson, and Mr. L. D. her in the business, but this was Turner defended.
donied by the plaintiff. Mr. Jones uld the parties en-1 tered into a partnership on No debt, said if the defendant agreed Mr. Jones, referring to the rent vember 1st, last year, at B, Des to give a promissory note, then Voeux Road, and that partnership naturally their claim against him was dissolved on March 22nd: of would bo reduced by the amount this year. There were certain ne- he paid. counts which were prepared by Mr. Turner: My client is only
been imposed against Halphong on Quarantine restrictions have
account of cholera.
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The weather forecast up still noon to-morrow is: South winds, moderate; occasional rain,
According to the old Chinese calendar to-day is the feast of the
{Tien-ti-ton-hua) ....
members are able to take their great-to-seen and Earth the defendant at that time, which too anxiously eller
part in essential civic service. It
is
when we ponder over such ac
Passengers disembarking from the Empress of Asin from Manila on Tuesday, included Mr. J. M. Me. Hutcheon. Judge P. Borbon is a through passenger to. Yokohama,
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ahowed that $817.80 was duej
Mr. Jones said the claim was to Mrs. Simpson." He understood really brought to enable Mrs.. that the debt was admitted.
NOTHING PAID."
Simpson to pay the debts.
Judgment was given for the plaintiff with costs; a stay of exe-
Mr. Turner: That is so, my cution being granted for fourteen Lord. He added that nothing had days, for the matter to be arrang [been paid.
ed. Mr. Jones said in that case hej would not call evidence.
16-17, Connaught Road, Contraltivities as these, and are told that the students are keenly supporting the anti-leper organisations, that we have great hopes for the future of the rising generation in China. The "forthcoming wedding. is With the opportunities now pre-announced of Mr. Charles Henry Dodson, proprietor of the Motor sented to them, the students can Cycle Exchange of Tung Hing said that after he had gone into found. He burgled his own house
Mr. Nagel, in the witness box, rise to take a big part in the sal Road, Hongkong, to Miss Eugenia partnership with Mrs. Simpson, he and, threatening his wife with a vation of their country, and by Holliday, of 2 Tung Hing Road. discovered there wero certain practical Interest in communal service, rather than by interfer
STONE-On June 22nd, at Gov- ernment Civil Hospital, to Mr. and
Mrs. W..F. Stone, a son,
The Telegraph
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1926.`
STUDENT ACTIVITY.
It was most gratifying to ob serve from a statement made in Hongkong a few days ago by the Rev. T. C. Wu, General Secretary
per sphere, they can best serve
the needs of the time.
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Too Obstinate.
Lord Birkenhead has roundly berated the miners' lead- ers for their obstinacy of attitude characteristic of miners upon which we commented two days ago. of the Chinese Mission to Lepers,The cry of "Not a farthing off and that everywhere in China he has not an hour longer" has been monotonously reiterated, blocking found the students most eager to the way to any negotiations and help in the beneficent work of this making the prospect of peace fade
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Sitting in the lower deck jumped her. into the water. Picked up by a sampan, the would-be suicide was taken to the Government Civil Ilospital.
Chief Detective Inspector Grant, on retiring on pension from the Hongkong "Police Force, left by. Empress of Asin to return to his home in Scotland by way of Canada, this morning. number of friends and former colleagues assembled at Blake Fier to see him off.
Japan's meanest man has been
items owing by her to various dagger at dead of night, stole Yen As the ferry launch Man Lee people. When he entered into the 55t was again the eternal was drawing away from the Yau-partnership he had no knowledge infatuated with another woman triangle. The husband had become ence in affairs outside their promati Wharf yesterday, n young some back rent, and two elec and needed the money desperately. Chinese woman who had been trip fans which were owed for by to buy his lady fair a nice kimono, One early morning a woman In reply to his Lordship, Mr. called at the Kamata police sta- Turner said the defence was tion-Kamata is about midway that they were entitled to set between Tokyo and Yokohama off certain amounts which were and described the visit the pre- owed by Mrs. Simpson, and which vious night of a masked robber had been taken over by the de-who, at the point of a dagger, took all the money she had in the house. fendant.
Mr. Justice Wood:-Against the This money she had saved by claim you want to set off certain doing odd jobs here and there. The police got busy and the same items? A large Mr. Turner said that was so afternoon arrested a man. The and his Lordship would see woman was sent for and, to her that he had paid the sum of chagrin, and astonishment, the $8.76 the balance from the amounts masked burglar was none other set off, into Court. There was than her own husband. A gnol miners are doing more to spoil In a fit of delirium produced a debt of $680 in respect of back sentence await Japan's mennest their original case than did the from a long illness, it is content for business premises. muu Trudes Lion Congress by calling jectured that a woman who died morning from injuries the foolish and fated general this strike, and it is indeed a pity that the miners' leaders are so lacking in wise leadership. Nothing con- structive has been contributed from the miners' side since the early days of the dispute hat autumn, when the Government came to their rescue with the sub-
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most hopeful sign and one which augurs well for the future work of the Mission.
In campaigns such as are carried on by this body, it is of the utmost value to Interest the rising generation, for by so doing there can be created an attitude of sympathy which will grow as time goes on. The acourge of leprosy is well known in China, and we are hopeful that the efforts of the Mission will do much towards the eradication of this disease. Happily, there is
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It seems strange that in all the -talk about the question of divorce, the obvious remedy for what many regard as a deplorable state of affairs should not have been pro- posed before. The remedy is so simple that it must have occurred to
many others. Let the Methodist Board of Temperance,. Prohibition and Public Morals' immediately put through an amendment to the Constitution of United States prohibiting marriage. The fact that marriage
the
Amongst the passengers leaving sidy. The Government (by means by the s.s. Empress of Asia to-day of the Samuel Commission) and were Mr. and Mrs. Archbutt, Mr. the owners have both made sug- and Miss Birkett, General F, Rod- gestions for the needed "readjust-rigues, Mr. P. W. Massey, Mr. J. P. ments, and although the owners' Taggart, Mr. S. Komer, Mr. P. I. first proposals would have work-Newman, Mrs. M. S. Strawn and ed a hardship on the miners' and Miss Strawn, wife and daughter no lack of willing helpers' to. 43-
of the American Delegate to the gave them justification for re- sist in the work of relieving the fusing to accept the terms, the Chinese Tariff Conference, Bufferings of those who owners have since made a modifi-
Mr. H. J. Best, of the Public stricken and also to broadcasted offer which deserved better
treatment than the summary re Works Department, was involved abroad information which is cal- jection it received at the lands of in an accident" which occurred culated to prevent the disease the Miners Executive, Publie yesterday afternoon as he was from spreading. In this connec opinion will surely react to driving through Morrison Gap ill-considered Road. Near the Stubbs Road Lion; the formation of a local auxi-Conduct such as that. and there is junction, a woman suddenly for Jiary is a step in the right direc-open talk in the more moderate sock the side channel and, getting Lion, for there are two leper settle- Labour circles of a separation be- into the way, was struck down by tween the Mining Federation and Mr. Best's motor-cycle. She was ments not far from Hongkong, and the remainder of the Labour only slightly injured. excellent as is the work which Party. The Federation has neve:' has been done, at these places, a forgiven the TU.C. for "forsuk... need exists for further financial ing" the miners on the occasion à?
the general strike, and the decu support if the best results are to ration is made that the miner be attained.
were not even informed of the T.U.C. decision to call off the gen. eral strike and to throw themselves on the uncovenanted mercies of Agra, Talthybius, Suiyang, Dloem- Mother Why, Tommy! You've in the suburbs of Paris has de- the Prime Minister. There isfontein, Bandoeng Maru, Ceylon taken half that piece of bread in livered to her house every day 100 litres of milk, in which she takes Maru, C. Lopez Y. Lopes, Mantua, one bite. Sayang, Hirado Mar, Laisang
Tommy-You said a mouthful, a daily bath?" Tilawa, Amazone Mara, Coblenz, mother! Theseus, Soochow and Kashmir.
mittee has declined, on the score Bible, and has always been in- The Middlesex Education Com- is favourably regarded in the of cost, to purchase a skeleton for timately associated with the the use of Teddington Arts and Christian religion, will of course, Crofts School, but suggests not trouble the Methodists at all.
E. P. Adams, In Life.
The following ships Are ex instead a travelling skeleton, pected to be in wireless communi- which could be taken from school cation with Hongkong to-day: to school." In the case of the late Deucalion, Tango Maru, Pres. John Brown it was only his soul Jefferson, France Mary, Lungshan, that went marching along. Van Overstraten, Muroran Maru.
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The Paris Prefect of Police ie being asked by a municipal councillor
Is it true that a dancer living
It is, as we say, a most Hopeful sign that Chinese students are in- teresting themselves in this work of mercy. Unhappily, in recent much internal soreness and frie tion between the various sections
The allegation may well be true. years, the student body in China of the Labour Party and it is en-
The culprit may retort that her has come into disrepute through joying the reverse of populari
"Without laughing too much nt doctor has ordered it for her com the ill-advised activities of the among the general body of work-
our plexion, and that there is no legal the song that pleased more unruly element. Particular-rs throughout the country. The
Mining Federation, particularly, As becomes professionals, the parents, we can see that they are ruling as to where the complexion.
She can also ly has this been so in regard to is earning for itself the apprHome railmen
are criticising. obt fit food for anybody who begins and ends. the occurrence of almost innumer-brium and resentment of many the state in
knows what is genuine," Dr. P. quote the ease of "Old Q.," the which the have
C. Buck, at the Royal Institution. "wicked" Marquis of Queensbury, able "strikes," many
left thing, the with whose livelihood it is direct- volunteers OB
one of whose eccentricities it was, ly interfering. We view it as dis- and are otill telling each
and not the least reprobated, to slighest provocation, whilst we finetly unfortunate that develon other stories of exploded boilera A woman with "ten names was take a bath of milk every day. have also seen how presumptuous ments should have taken the and fires allowed to go out. The granted a divorce last month. "It And, anyhow, she does not go so some of the students have been in course they have, and hope that costume of volunteers is particu-is not her fault," said Lord Mer- far as a sister in the profession Interfering in the political affairs even yet a change of heart on th.larly the subject of inexhaustible rivale, that she has all these who, in the days of the Empire, part of the miners will be man, reminiscence, and the prize appar-names." Perhaps not her fault; not only took a daily bath of milk, of their country-assuming the ted
ently goes to that volunteer plate-but one of them, certainly, was but afterwards gave it to the poor. layer on the Southern-who turned her misfortune. right to dabble in mattera with i
up for duty in córrect City clothes, which they are wholly unfit to
with yellow gloves, patent shoes, A Chinese in possession of two bowler hat, and rolled umbrella. deal. In the realm of sport, too, fully loaded pistols was arrested As his work was there have been many instanced yesterday evening, about eight long stretches of sleepers and hal- to tramp over similar to that which we reported o'clock, in Shanghai Street, Mong-last carrying a heavy iron ham- yesterday us having occurred at kok, by detectives who had gone mer, this costume was almost a Ly called her on the phone.
out in search of armed robbers, miracle of unsuitability Yet the Wuchang, where students defeated following on information that a worker in question refused to be Customer: It's pretty tough in games have gone the lengthy of raid in Shamshúips had been deprived of his umbrella through when you have to pay 90 cents for creating disorders and having planned.
a weck of service.
a steak.
"You'll get
ring," he pro- mised her, "If you will be my own." And when she said, "I will,"
he almp
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A zealous," but untrained, re- former had secured permission to speak at the county gaol.
"Brothers, he pleaded, lose no time in turning to the pathway of righteousness. Remember, we are here to-day and gone to morrow. A
"Don't kid yourself," came gloomy voice from the rear got eighteen years hero yet