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the call of Empire in the Great War that we begin to realise what the Canadian connection really means.
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THE FOOL IS, WILLING TO PAY FOR ANYTHING BUT WISDOM. NO MAN BUYB. THAT' OF WHICH HE SUP-
POSES IMSELF TO HAVE AN ABUN- DANCE. ALREADY.Simms, .
The as. Jeypore left Shanghai
on the 5th instant at 5 a.m.x
yesterday at 7 a.m. and is due hero
550,000 troops were raised for The Bishop of Victoria and Mrs. active service, of whom 400,000 Duppuy are going to Yunnan-fu
which is at the remote end of the were sent oversens. Of those lat- diocese, says St. John's Cathedral ter, nó fewer than 190,000 Agured | Notes. in the casualty lists, 44,000 being killed or dying from, wounds. Besides fighting men, Canada sent munitions, ships and food to Europe, to say nothing of the big
number of deroplanes „sliu con- 'structed' or, of the miles of rail-
Dr. Hing, the Mexican Minister to China and Japan, is expected in Canton to-morrow, where, it la reported, he will Interview the Foreign Minister, Mr. Eugene Chen, on important affairs,
The engagement is announced of Miss Liddell, daughter of the
ways she tore up and despatched Rev. J. P. Liddell, of the London to France. She also raised five Mission, Tientsin, to Mr. F. S. war loans and also made big ad- Turner, of Messrs. Mackenzie and vances to the Muther Country, Co.
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The Telegraph
FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1926.
A GREAT DOMINION.
By special request, Mr. Rupert all kinds raised a total of $90,000.- Baldwin, A.T.C.L., will give organ 000. Much more could be aid of selections from 5.35 p.m. to 5.55 Canada's part in the war, but her, on Saturday evenings, in St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon dur- material help pales into relative ing the summer, insignificance beside the undaunt-
CORRESPONDENCE:
DOMINIONS' STATUS.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong. Telegraph.]
Sir-In rending Mr. Wallace's
RUSSO-TURKISH TREATY,
FUTURE OBLIGATIONS.
DEFINED
Moscow, July R Simultaneously with the ratifler speech on Dominion Day, I was tion in Constantinople on June 8 sorry to notice that the occasion of the Russo-Turkish Parle Treaty was used to preach the doctrine of the Independence of British the Soviet Ambassador and the Colonies and Dominions as distinct Turkish Foreign Minister have from a united Empire with the signeda Protocol declaring: British Isles as Headquarters,
We are all naturally proud of the firstly, that when the Paris British Empire, and it is a healthy Treaty was signed the two parties sign that the sons and daughters had no obligations towards any of the great Motherland should de- desire a voice in her deliberations, third Powers in contradiction with But overzealous. Colonial patriots the Paris Treaty and, secondly, should endeavour to discern the ef- parties have undertaken no such fect of their independence on other important parts of the Emobiigations since the signature; pire, what w
and thirdly, the parties will not Canada, and rightly so. But to go while the Treaty is operating.— Self-government has been given undertake any such obligations a step further and grant the right of independent action in affairs of International Interest, is a step which must be viewed with the
Beuter.
BIG RAILWAY WORKS WANTED.
Berlin, July 1. The Ukrainian Government fa
ed bravery and valour of her men Hotels, Ltd., have issued in booklet The Hongkong and Shanghai on the field of battle, in which conform an account of the proceed, nection we cannot forget the ings at the yearly meeting of the heroic deeds performed in the Company, together with statement Second Battle of Ypres, at Vimy in English and Chinese.
of accounts, which is printed both
Ridge and in the Arras-Cambrai Baltic. The memories of these At a meeting which is being grent services to the cause of civi-held this afternoon, the Legisla It was Canada's National Day lisation will never be forgotten, i proñosals for the rebuilding of the the Imperial Government, and work said to be about £6,000,000.— tive Council will consider revised and to-day, all through the Em-bridge on the Taipo Road near the ing was the fact that it was obpire, Canada is looked upon aa ene level crossing between Taips and
Tape Market Railway Station. of the most loyal and staunch members of the great British Commonwealth of Nations, and a tablet on the west wall of the decided to erect
one whose future bids fair to out-St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon to shine a glorious past.
the memory of the late Sir C. P. Chater. The Kowloon Dock Com, pany is being entrusted with the work.
jesturday, and particularly pleas-
served here in Hongkong. The Canadian community here is not a large one, but what it lacks in numbers it more than makes up in 'loyalty to the King and the Empire, whilst in times of stress its members can be counted on to
take their full share of the burden
that has to be borne. The idea
To Our Readers.
Ideas have a habit of persisting long after the
Cause of their
It has been
greatest apprehension by every RUSSO-GERMAN DEAL. subject who thinks Imperially,
The Imperial Government hes long since recognised the claims of the great, British nations overscay, and Imperial Conferences have been invoked as a result. Mr. Wallace right to conduct and settle affairs would apparently give Canada the concerning the British Empire in negotiating with the Rhalometall of Germany's biggest general, according to the Canadianong outlook, instead of advising the machinery works, for the sale of the latter's entire locomotive Foreign Office of the Canadian as- pect of the particular question con-department. The Russians pro- cerned. This desire to weaken the Pose to "-erect the works at British Empire is to be most man staff for the purpose of voice of London as representing the Kharkoff and take over the Gar- strongly deplored. Far better for building engines for the Russian the Colonies to be represented on railways. The purchase price is for the British Empire as a whole
Reuter presenting, one voice in British questions, instead of a chorus of voices, possibly not united. Ima so proud of the great traditions Australia when under the yoke of Isles," let them give practical proof gine the conduct and attitude of that centre around the British
extreme labour control. Also, if by upholding the present cohesion Colonies were given complete free-which makes those Isles the Hend- dom of action in International af-quarters of the British race. fairs, the priciple might well be ex In conclusion, Mr. Wallace points tended to the various States which out that Canada'ia only 56 per cent make up that Colony. I don't British. A party division of that know Canada, but I Imagine that 55 per cent, and a united 46 foreign weakened by the adoption of such on behalf of Canada, as represent- Australia would be considerably por cent would mean a foreign voice principle. Also, would the othering a British nation at an Interna nations be prepared to accept tional conferencel
Enclosing my card Yours etc.. equality with junior nations form-
IMPERIALIST.
The case in which a Chinese of Canadian exiles in Hongkong origin has been removed, and it his wife, at Aberdeen, was again is charged with the murder of foregathering once a year, on the is because an old-fashioned idea mentioned before Mr. R. E. Lind anniversary, of the establishment is apparently persisting among sell at the Central Police Coust
some of the readers of this paper this of Federal union is an altogether that we venture to write this little | Reynolds asked for a week's for. ing part of the British Empire?
morning, when Inspector excellent one, and we trust that as "domestic" note. Some years ago mal remand. This was granted. the years go by this observance of we started giving a page of the day will grow in extent and pictures every day, and it was
sheerly because enterprising A coolie, aged 28 years, employ
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Lane,
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recognised as one of the Colony's in catering for news illustrations admitted to the Ho Miu Ling Hos- that we were obliged" to buy our pital yesterday, suffering from main social functions. Hongkong
pictures from the United States. injuries received through being is, despite the intervening waters Although the service of news
knocked down by a number of bags of the Pacific Ocean, in close com- pictures we purchased was quoted containing cocoanut meal falling on him The extent of the man's mercial touch with the great Domb
being "international" in nion of Canada, thanks to the nd-character, it was inevitable that Jajuries is not known.
American pictures would»» pre-
The
Canton Municipal Tele
If British natione overseas are
Hongkong, July 2, 1926,
The Very Idea!
He jumped right in his
bathing suit.
Twas much too large. And
then
He took one dive into the air:
And jumped right out again.
mirable shipping services provid-dominate. In order to give a more
A California condor in the That's the baby population of ed, whilst these facilities, to- British tone to our illustrated phone Administration is negotiat- Washington Zoo, one of four re- many a small American town and gether with those supplied by the pages we made enquiries at Homeing with foreign manufacturers mairing birds of an almost extinct more than could be found in many but the only picture service it for the "Installation of a modern species, has Inid an egg. The egg blocks walk along fashionable railways across the Dominion, was then and still is pos- Automatic gratem costing $2,000, is valued at $750. But the condor Park Avenue. enable growing numbers of Hong- site to buy from England 000. The deal was at the point of will not be allowed to hatch her kong people to make the trip Home is a purely photographic ser- being closed with a German firm own egg because she tried it by that route and in this way gain vicat a very high cost and when more favourable offers were before and smashed it in incuba- from which it would be pro- received from two American Com- tion process. This time the ex- a personal knowledge of the won hibitively expensive to make a panies. The transaction is still pensive egg will be placed in an
incubator. derful natural beauties of the daily page of half-tone process- under negotiation.
Thus does even naturb recognize country. As time goes on, we engraved blocks. But we have, for some many months past, been
of the child may not be best for it. the fact that the biological mother have no doubt that the intercourse under special private arrangement
we are reminded of criticism Masteringham wonderful speaker That's the celebrated Miss between Hongkong and Canada with the London Times and also
heard the other day of a woman They say she talks like a book.” will develop to an even greater, with the Shanghai Times whereby
who leaves her baby in a special "That's right with one excep we are able to use n selected lv. extent than at present, and number of their own photographs, belonging to Mr. Nemazee and goes about her business of atore
child nurse's care dach day and tid. trust that no opportunity will be and in addition to this we are driven by the chauffeur, apparent management. Perhaps she, like lost to foster those relations, to under, a contract with a well-ly swerved In Robinson Rond, near the rare condor, knows enough to the mutual benefit of both places. known pictorical agency in Lon- the Roman Catholle Cathedral, in do her own job and leave a job
don from whom we are buying order to avoid a number of chil- that isn't hers to another! When we think of Canada, how pictures dealing exclusively withdren playing on the road and, in ever, it is usually in a larger and big British events. In addition doing so, struck the girl down. more comprehensive respect that to this we give a weekly feature of
A Chinese girl about six year old, was knocked down by a motor car shortly after 7 a.m. on Wed- nesday and died almost immediate
The car, which is reported as
is, her relations to the Empire claim that there is.
local pictures. We can rightly. The lapsing of the loen! Or a whole. Despite all that her de- international happening of which reported to have resulted in a bigdinance restricting house rents is
tractors would say to the contrary,
するど
are firmly convinced that
Canada is to-day more closely wed!
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we do not, a quick time, give number of landlords raising rents piciorical representation.
on their property. ·A·local Chinese
Lady Caller: Is Mrp, Park Smythe in town?
Scullery Maid D'you think I'd bo scrubbin' these 'ero stops if shio wasn't?
"What's that?" "You can't shut her up."
The reason so many people never get there, is because there": is a place they always wish they were, no matter where they are.
There is amusing irony and pungent courage in the refusal of Fatty Arbuckle to necept hie, attempted banishment from the When certain influences thwart-
A wife enusually, tell screen
ed his attempted reappearance as
film actor, following the tragic: San Francisco enac, and even pres
As it was only yesterday that press, correspondent,, who visited husband where he is going to any we heard the loosely-thought-out several premises in the principai he has been and it lan't breause ded to the Empire than ever in her statement repeated that the Telo streets of Hongkong during the she knows where he was history. Her status as a great graph's pictures were "all Ameri- past two days has found that the self-governing Dominion is one of can we have gone through our large property owners have so far In the crowded, noisy heart of vented his directing, pictures papers for last month (June) and made no attempt to raise the Manhattan'e East Side, just over under his own name, Arbuckle which she is justly proud, and al- this is what we find:-Apart from rentals, and those few who had the edge of "brasstown" on Allen adopted a nom de cinema. though she may demand-as she pictures in our Motor Supplement already done so have informed street, is a unique tenement.
This ostracism was nominally to | has a perfect right to do that due and also apart from two special their tenants that, in certain For many years it has been preserve the morals of children
consideration be given to her pages of the English und Austra cases, the new rentals will be known as "the baby house
Han Test Match teams, we printed about 10 cent, higher. In a few views in all matters involving the 220 news pictures. Of these, 67 cases, the Increase has been about foreign policy of the Empire, that were eithor, local or concerning 15 per cent. fact in no sense betokens any de- Shanghai; 98 were of British or European events; and 60 were of sire to break away from the American origin, including as they any means inconsiderable. We Motherland. Indeed, as we under did pictures of events of world-have gone to special pains to make stand Canada's aspirations, they wide interest. Seventy-three per our pictures as British as possible, rich The morals of children. are that she shall shoulder-more published ware
cent of all the pietures we as local as possible and as roure non-American sentative as possible, and we have responsibilities rather than less. And the cost of all these pictures here said so in order to help But deeds count more than words, the buying of photographs and defeat the lingering servival of and it is when we ponder over the making of blocks-la not by an out-of-dute idea.
who, it was argued, might bo Looking at the hordes of chil- somehow infected by seeing the dren cluttering streets and side banned comedian's name on the walka, playing » tag about the screen. Fatty countered by pushearts and staging ball games directing several pictures under În defiance of windows, one the suggestive name, Will B. Good. wonders how any particular place Prospering a little he has now could be singled out as a baby changed the name to Will Good-
seem to have been safeguarded- This particular tonement earned at least not notably disturbed by a name because, in a place that this subterfuge. And now thes houses 60 familles, there are 200 alinaedcome babfen-yes, 200 babies athered Marion Davies in "The In one yellow brick dwelling placol it fa, rumou
Irect