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MONDAY, OCTOBER 25 1926.
CONTROL OF LOCAL AFFAIRS.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
THERE IS NO SLANDER IN AN AL
LOWED FOOL, THOUGH HE DO NOTHING BUT RAIL-Shakespeare.
The P. and O. 8.s. Nyanza, from Shanghai, is due here to-morrow morning.
Over the week-end, a case of a dog suffering from rabies has been reported from Kowloon.
ment of officials who do not alway's sock to discover whether their de- cisions meet with general approval or not. We have no fixed policy on big matters of local develop. ment because that policy, is not
The. F. and O. s.s. Malwa from in the hands of permanent inter-Hongkong, arrived in London on usts, but is subject to the indivi- October 21st. dual viewpoint of whoever might be in control at the moment. This is a very serious matter and one which will have to be attended to sometime or another. What Hong | kong is mostly In need of is n quickened public spirit among its. realdents, because it is only through the coming of that that the system against which we com- plain will be altered. It has been said that there is very little pub- lie spirit here because there is very little opportunity to express it, but that is putting matters the wrong way round. It is making the effect "the cause.
If there were
a display of live public opin ion events would inevitably shape themselves to conform to it,
Mistaken Zeal,
The following appointment was made by the Admiralty on Mon- day, September 27-Instructor Lieutenant S. B. Taylor, B.A.. to H.M.S. Despatch,.
CORRESPONDENCE.
-VIA SIBERIA.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph,}
Sir,-As I am desirous of travel- ́ ́
FRENCH GUNBOAT UNDER FRIE.
75'8 REPLY TO CHINESE TROOPS.
GUNNER'S MÅTE KILLED." ling home via Siberia in the spring Fronch 75's, which proved to be of 1927, I will be greatly obliged the best guns of the European if any of your readers who have recently travelled that way wil War, went into action with Chi kindly furnish me with the follow-nese troops who fired upon the ing Information;"
French gunboat Alerte as she was (1) What vins are required for passing Chichow, near Hankow, passport, and where can same be according to reports reaching obtained?*
Shanghai.
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The Alerte went under heavy tion on the train from Harbin be rifle and machine gun fire, from
(2) Can booking and reserva
made in Hongkong?
the Cantonese troops while paas- (3) Is it possible to break one's low. The Cantonese are result id
Ing Chichow, 80 miles below Han- · Members of the Holena May In-Journey en route at Warsaw and in the killing of a gunners' mate stitute are reminded that the book. Berlin for a, few days?
whose name was Lullien und in (4) What is the approximate the wounding of a machine gunner ing for the Musicale closes on Wednesday, 27th inst. An excel fare from Hongkong to London? who is now lying in the Inter lent programme will be given.all-in fare, ie, train and steamer very serious condition. When the (6) What is the approximate national Hospital at Hankow In a Advt.
fare, sleeper, food, tips, visas, etc. warship was fired upon, the..men from Hongkong to London?
were on the deck. Any other useful information
She replied with machine guns for a first-time traveller on the and seventy-fives, blowing up the foute will be greatly appreciated entire plan a from which the firing
Thanking you for the publien- tion of this enquiry, and enclosing are believed to be stationed at Chi Was directed. Southern troops my card,-Yours, etc.,
Internal injuries sustained by falling down the companion way of the s.s. Kutsang, caused the death at sea of Mr. Ma. So, of Amoy, on the way up from Singa- pore.
Mr. T. Rogers, lately with the Hongkong Realty Company, left by the Haruna Maro on Saturday, to take up an appointment with Messrs. Perry and Company of
TRAVELLER. Hongkong, Oct. 23rd, 1926.
Three junk people were each fed $10 at the Marine Court this morning for altempting to leave the waters of the Colony at night without a permit.
chow engaging in a battle with Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's forces at Wusueh On account of the fighting in the section of the Yangtze, telegraphic communica- tion between Hankow and Shang- hat was completely cut off.
Lulllen, who was killed in the Excellent results are reported
Incident, was 60 years old and a by the local branch of the Navy
native of Brittany. He was struck · League" consequent
In his temple by a bullet and he screening of "Zeebruggo" at the.
The death has occurred in Bom- received another in his arm. Queen's Theatre on Trafalgar bay of Mr. George Wittet, consuft- The machine gunner who was
upon
the
Day. Additions to the member-
strength of the branch up to 250.
A letter received from the Pro- vincial Grand Secretary for South China of the R.A.0.B. atates that the result of the recent concert for the Mrs. Jacob's Fund was the creditable sum of $970.36, which has been handed over to Major Rashleigh, R.A., Treasurer of the fund,
.
Bombay. Mr. Wittet designed lets in his left lung. mány notable buildings in Bom-
bay City and Presidency, including The s.s. Taishan will leave for the Gateway of India, the Prince Canton at 3 am. of Wales Museum, the Royal In Thursday and Saturday of this on Tuonday, stitute of Science, and the King week, returning from Canton at Edward Memorial Hospital.
p.m. the same days.
In common, we are dure, with many othera, 'we cannot help feel ing that the National Christian Council in Shanghaj is 'måking a big mistake by dabbling in politi-Singapore: cal questions, as it has been doing in regard both, to the question of missionary and educational issues in China. There is great diver sity of opinion on many napects of these questions, and we do not think that any good purpose is Mr. Amery's lengthy speech to served at the moment by the sendship number 65, bringing the ing architect to the Government of seriously wounded had three buk the members of the Imperial Con- ing forth of expressions of opinion ference on the subject of the nn-which are bound to be dissented from in many quarters. The ture and growth of Britain's co- Council itself admits that it is lonial Empire as viewed separate difficult to ascertain the opinion ly from the great self-governing of the general missionary body on Dominions has a special interest many of the points which have arisen during the deliberations of for us of Hongkong, inasmuch, as
the conference members, yet it this Crown Colony forms part of openly comes out and declares the British possessions of which that the time for Treaty revision" he was speaking. He rightly said has arrived. What is even more regrettable is that the Council that this Colonial Empire Fad should assert that missionaries do grown tremendously during recent not any longer need the special years and had evolved into a protection which they are guaran- teed under the Treaties, but should separate constituent element of depend, instead, on the provisions
Gold in the Arkansas valley has the Empire, entailing an enor for religious liberty in the Chinese mous amount of work on the Co-Constitution. We cannot think headquarters in the Orient, will too many women are looking for been badly scattered, however. The sand and overflow have allow lonial Ofice. The responsibility tive of the main body of Christian worth.
that this view is at all representa- be in charge of Mr. G. M. Hems. 4 husband in Spain.
From inquiries made, it appears ed the gold by this time to seep that Spain is going through a through to bedrock.. Until somo for the government of these co-organisations in China, at the mo-.
ex-matrimonial crisis.
instrument is invented to locate lonies rested; in the last. resort, ment. Surely within the past
The latest statistics show that the gold, Daisy says the riches of year there have been sufficient in pected to be in wireless communi- shid Mr. Amery, with the British stances of murder and barbarity cation with Hongkong to-day in Madrid during 1925, there were the Arkansas will be locked up as Parliament, but the colonies them- which missionaries have been President Monroe, Present Lin-1,800 marriages less than in the securely as if they were in a vault.
the victims to merit the safeguard-coln, Kwaisang, Loubertbie, Kiang-preceding year.
In Andalusia Cataluna and An elderly man, calling at ing, rather than the weakening, of 8, Chambord, Pronto, Honghwa,
selves had "autonomous institu-
£9
Mr. A. Brostedt, General Traffic Agent in the Orient for the Canadian National Railways, left by the "President Lincoln Fester- day, on a business. trip to Canada. During his absence the Hongkong Office, which is the Company's
The following vessels, are
The Very Idee!
There is a shortage of men, and
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tions in varying degree and in-
the protective rights to which for- Ankai, Arafura, Devanha, Taika Levante, there have been thirty girls' school to inquire after his creasing manner.". It is regard-eigners in China are entitled. It Maru, Ryoka Maru, Haruna Maru, por cent. more births of girls than daughter, was greeted by the ing this. thought that we of Hong- is all very well to speak of "re-Kohok Maru, President Jefferson, boys. This sounds. bad for the beaming principal.
"You must be proud to be the kong "ought to take the greatest ligions toleration" under the Chi- Glenbeg, Kiungchow, Batavia Maru future.
There are good reasons explain- head of such a large family," she interést, because the time is most nese Constitution, but, facts are and Soochow.
ing the lack of prospective said, "all the members of which more eloquent than words. Of. assuredly coming for an increase late, there has been a big anti- On her trip up from Bangkok husbands in this country. The appear to be so fond of ono
apparent in all with a large number of immigrants, Moroccan war has caused the loss another." in our local autonomous institu- Christian wave tions. The Governments of the parts of the country, and this car- the 8.8. Clara Jebsen 'experienced of a good reary young Spaniards, "Large family! What do you
not be glossed over as being any some trouble with those aboard Also, the increased cost of living mean?" he asked In amazement. self-governing parts of the Empire thing other than what it really is.
when it was notifled that the ship has forced numerous lovers to "Why," the principal answered, are based on democratic institu- Until there is some better show would call at Hongkong instead of give up their ideas of marriage, no less than five of Marion's of real authority in China, there Whampoa. A wireless message when between two kisses, as they brothers have been here to see tions, and there is every reason.
much-her." cannot be any surrendering of the was sent out notifying that police say they figured how why the local government of the rights accorded foreigners by ald might be required, but the ship they would ham to spend to create lesser-important "colonien, which Treaty, and the sooner the Na-eventually came into harbour with- home.. come under the Colonial Ofce tional Christian Council realises out any serious trouble being ex-
that, the better will it be for perienced. should, wherever possible, be de
everybody concerned. veloped on democratic lines. Mr. Amery referred to the self-govern-
Spaniards console themselves reading that in France there are more than three million women The Penang Turf Club's $10,000 without Husbands and for whom to charity has been divided as fol- the only solution would be to
ing community of Malta where THE CHAPMAN CASE. lows: St. George's Church $1,000, marry a foreigner.
there is an elected Legislature to 'control local affairs, and he could have named no more Imperially important place, for it is the base and resort for repair and refitment
that big inland sea. It is essen tial that all but local administra- tion must be in the direct hands of the Imperial authorities in Lon- don, but that fact has not stopped the grant of local control to local residents. The Legislative As sembly is composed of 82 elected
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sighing for the husband of their and Latimer were burned at the dreams who, is becoming more and stake only a few yards in front of it, after they had been convict- more improbable.
ed as Protestant heretics, Newlywed This liver tastes Towards the end of the eighteenth funny, dear."
century, when the front quad- Mrs. Newlywed "I thought it rangle of the college looked queer as soon as it came demolished and rebuilt, the gate from the butcher's, darling, and was taken down. Dr.. Harding 34.376. so I cooked three of those liver Newman; a fellow of Magdalene. 102.675 pilis with it."
College, Oxford, acquired it and
St. Andrews Church $1,000, the It has been suggested that "In
An ancient gate of oak, which Convent $1,000, Children's Aid countries where, the number of Fund $1,000, District Commissien- women is much above the number was set up nearly 800 years ago er for Malay Scouts $1,000, Po of men, the law be changed, long and swung for 500 years at the Leong Keok $500, St. Mark's, But-the Turkish fashion which forces entrance to Balliol College before terworth $500. The Club has men to get married once they are it changed its location,, has been Judge Neterer, of the Second U. also given £100 each to Dr. Bar- twenty-five, and to take a second found and returned to its ald of the British fleet in the Mediter-S. Federal Court in Seattle, denied nardo's Homes and the Fresh Air wife when they reach the age of place.
The gate was made and hung in a writ of habeas corpus to obtain Fund. The Penang Turf Club has fifty, provided they have not
In the mean- 1288 and it was already a vener- ranean, and its harbour is Eng-freedom for William Alden Chap-also been the first to donate $200 already done so. land's premier naval station of man, ex-clerk of the United States towards the Poppy Day Fund, time, the lonely.Espanolas keep on able antique when, in 1555, Ridley
Court, for China, who is charged 1926, with embezzling $30,000 of the court funds, and ruled that he be returned to Shanghai for trial, ag- cording to information received. last week by Mr. Leonard G. Hugar, Parin' United States District Attorney in Brusacla
Amsterdam Shanghai.
Barlin Chapman is now being held in Copenhagen the gaol of King County, Wash., Vienna as he is unable to provide a bond Helsingfors of G.$5,000, while an appeal te be- Lisbon
Buenos Aires Hongkong is perhaps the most ing heard in the Ninth United Shanghai backward, of any of the Crown States Cleuit Court of Appeals Yokohama which is also sitting in Seattle Now York Colonies from the self-governing In the event that the court of ap- Genova point of view, and yet we are con-peals affirms the decision of the Milan tent (or most of us seem to be) lower court, Chapman will prob- Stockholm
United States to take things as they are without ably appeal to the
Supreme Court
Madril protest of any kind. As we point- The decision of Judge Neterer Rio,
is the second victory that District Bombay Attorney Husar has won in his Hongkong
Silvar (spot) ago, the people of Hongkong are fight to extradite Chapman from Silver (forward) wholly in the hands of a govern- the United States.
members.
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hung it at the entrance of his "There's gold in those hills, private garden at Nelmes, in 2/4%
fo says D. C. Daly, famous old pros Essex Ivy grow over it and after Dr. Newman's death the gate was 4.84. 18/18 pector, "but try to get it."
The land to which Daisy refere forgotton, 111% is the valley of the Arkansas But eighteen months ago 18.135 River, where there's enough gold Rochelle Thomas of the Georgian 108% to pay the national debt, he says Gallery, St. James, London, dis- 3221 Daisy says it is well known that covered the ancient gate and pur 6.29/82 through the centuries the Rockies chased it. More than 100 coats, 1/5.56/84 have worn away several hundred of paint were scraped away and 1/10 feet. Gold and silver formations the old oak planks and struts
24% 2124 were dissipated and washed down found still in a perfect state
streams, the same as other mattor, preservation.
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