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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1926,
DAY BY DAY.
YOU and judicial system of their MUST country, very little bag bean OWN IT done along these lines ng yet. On
WONDROUS IS THE STRENGTH OF paper, the most praiseworthy CHEERFULNESS, ALTOGETHER PAST. schemes have been set forth, but, CALCULATIONS 118 POWERS OF EN-
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Ordinances fongkong. Alexandra Buildings, Des Voeux Road Central,
Bo far as the country generally is concerned, the reforms have not. advanced much beyond that stage. Dr. Wang also refers to the firm Intention of the Chinese Govern mont to perelet in the judical re form programme, but it would be pertinent to ask to which Govern- ment he is referring and whether it realty has the power to enforce
its mandates,
The P. and 0.8.8. Khyber from Hongkong arrived at Marseilles on
November at 7 a.m.
Rear Admiral Stirling is to leave for Home by the F. and O. liner Macedonia on December 11th.
The E. and A. Company's 3.8. Tanda, which left Moil on the 28th instant, is due here on December 9rd.
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Empress of Asia (C.P.S.S.) arriv- ed at Shanghai Sunday, left there yesterday, and is due here to morrow
CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph.
SUNNING DNQUIRY.
6-Capt. Holland," ang "sailor- man in passenger ships of 22,000) tons, with a man for every job, but what does he know of the China Coasters perplexities, in |their 2,000 ton ships, with 5 or 6 white men and
and the reat--perhaps pirates?
Sir-Candidly, I do not agree Do you not think, Sir, this could: with your opinion as to the com- be improved upon? Are there not position of the Sunning Piracy seafarers of 26, and more, years' continuous service in one Com- Commission,
I've been going to sea for over pany Fon the China Coast, 36 years and all the time have hail any one of whom could constantly dinhed Into my ears give His Excellency more Informa. "every man to his job and the cook tion on pfracy in an hour than the to the fore-sheet" and, at school whole six Commissioners could do before I went to sea, the man who in a month each? taught me the three B's used to set I am perfectly convinced that us writing coples on the black the Commissioners will pull every board, one of which was ne sutor ounce of their weight to make a ultra crepidam.
good job of work, however difficult, but they cannot cure piracy with out a perfect knowledge of the disense, any more than a butcher can cure cancer.
With these two for a text, I pro-
Passengers departing for San | eced thusly: Francisco via ports by s.s. Siberia Maru, included Dr. and Mrs.
-The Hon. Mr. Hallifax, have
and Mrs. W. Porterfield. E. W. Kirk and family and Mr.ing bi-lingual abilities and being a magistrate of experience, is pri- bably one of the best chairmen we could get,
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PROPELLER.
Hongkong, Nov. 30, 1926.
In the long run, extra-terri- toriality will be abolished. or that, we have no doubt. But no reasonably-minded person can ex- pect the surrender of existing rights without due, and proper guarantees for the safeguarding of the lives, the property and the trading rights of the nationals of
A Chinese nows agency reports that General Ho Ying-yüm, after 2 The Hon. Mr. Wolfe, is Capt. foreign countries. As to the time occupying Chuan Chow, without Supt. of Hongkong Police and when the giving up of these rights encountering opposition, has or mighty well he superintends that will take place, that is largely adored a general advance on Foo elcient organisation, but piracies THE WELSH SOCIETY,
chow, which is reported to be do not occur in Hongkong. matter in China's own hands.
weakly defended.
Sir, I am glad to note that the, 3.Lt. Com. Hole Is Harbour St. Andrews Society and the St." When that day does come, there
The forthcoming wedding is an- Master, but piracies do not occur George's Society never fail to pro- must be a recognition by China of
perly observe their national Saints' the usual trading and residential nounced of Mr. Charlos, Manners, in Hongkong Harbour.
chief clerk of the Hongkong and
4-Com. Miles, is a Naval Officer Day in Hongkong. Unfortunately. rights inherent in "the general Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., and would not be a Commander if the Welsh people here, although practice in intercourse among na-Ltd., residing at No. 25, Ashley he did not know his job as a Navall they have a localSt. David's tions" The Commissioners b-Road, Kowloon, to Miss Agnes Officer, but that does not include Society, do not seem to be so cn- lieve that China would give such Moran, résiding at No. 229, Yua knowledge of the China Coast thusiastic. If the Society is not
Tuen Road, Shanghai,
trade.
moribund, the Committee, I trust, an undertaking. Such rights, of
will get things going this year in course, already exist and it is no
good time to ensure reasonable pro- part of the suggested abolition of
Their ambition should be in pro- spects of success. on 1st March.
extra-territoriality to take them
portion to their numbers, though. Yours, etc., away. They have, however, in cent years been flagrantly violated in various parts of the country, Now that Part IV of the Extra-and in view of that circumstance it appears to us to be of the utmost Territoriality Commission's Re-. port has been released for publica: importance that they should be re stated and emphasised in no un tion, a stage has been reached at which it is possible to regard this equivocal terms in any eventua; agreement which may be reached vitally important question as com-
on the extra-territoriality ques ing more within the scope of
tion. practical politics than, has hitherto béen the case. Whilst it is true that the subject, in its main ag- peets, remains largely where it did, there is at the same time suf-
The Telegraph
TUESDAY, NOV. 30, 1926..
THE EXTRALITY REPORT.
5.--Mr. Goggin is doubtless a Two officers have been mentioned good organiser of a shipping bus with lines to the cruiser Calcutta would not boss the Bank Line for for their gallantry in swimming offness for, in these bad times, he during the recent Bermuda hur ten minutes if he were not, but midshipman, served in China on trade has been. learnt in an office ricane. Lieut. S. W Roskill, as a what he knows of the China Coast board the Durban; Sub-Lieut. C. and not where piracies happen. B. Alers Hankey, in January, 1922, was appointed to the Despatch in
China.
The following appointments were made by the Secretary of State for the Colonies during the month end- ed, October 10-Mr. H. A. Mills, Accountant, Post Office, Hongkong; Miss J. M. Nicolson, Nursing Sister, Hongkong; Mr. L. G. Morgan, B.Sc.. Asst. Master, Education Dept., Hongkong; Miss V. M. Burnett, Nursing Sister, Hongkong.
INTERESTED. Hongkong, Nov. 30th, 1926.
The Very Idea!
a Police Court.
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This world is becoming so frivol- brow stick and mascara to look like ous, they say. Everybody wants cadavers They paint green shd- St. Andrew's Day:
the things that come easy-the dows under their eyes and user al- frothlest shows, the Abdul Chafoor, a Government books, the frothiest music. Pub- "engaging corpses."
frothicat mest black lipsticks to resemble To-day all good and loyal Scots-
book ficient evidence in the contents of men foregather to do honour to House chauffeur, has reported to lisher's just announced
To be subjected to a constant the memory of St. Andrew, their the police that he Jost an over-
called "Creative Chemistry" has parade of animated corpses only the report to show that the gigna- Patron Saint, and here in Hong- coat from his quarters the day gone into its hunderd and fifty- serves a world right which wagged tories are really in earnest in look-kong, as in other parts of the Em- before yesterday. The loss was fifth thousandth copy, establishing its tongue so loudly about the rouge a record for any book of science, and lipstick of the girl who made ing forward to the time when pire, there will be much convivial-discovered yesterday and it is pre-
ity and rejoicing. In the Far Ensumed that during the chauffeur's Librarians, say that their book up with health is her ideal of beau many of the special rights enjoyed just now, foreign communities are absence on the previous day, a budget will not permit them to ty rosy cheeks, bright eyes, and by Treaty Powers can be abolish labouring somewhat under a cloud thief
opened the box in which the buy enough un science, philosophy bright lips says a girl writer
and psychology to meet popular ed. For the first time, there are of unrest and dull times, but that cant was kept and succeeded in
demand. set forth certain specific condi- circumstance will not in any way taking it away.
This fickle, giddy, brain addled oldest Old Moore, is cheerful in his Up to a point, our old friend, the dampen the ardour of our Scottish tians which should precede such
friends, who look upon this day as
Rescaling of the grant of letters age!
forecast for next year. The coal, abolition of rights, but, what is one to be observed in time-honour-of administration in connection
trouble will have been settled; but celebrations with the estate of the late Mr.
Woman at Bow County Court- more important. a number of modi ed fashion, with
in May 1927, we gather stressing their national outlook. Frank Birley Johnson, who died in
I ani a widow from choice.
there will be trouble among the fications", of existing usage areIt is a time, too, when thoughts England on May 2nd, 1923, has Poplar Woman-She complains miners, and "the coal settlement is urged for immediate adoption. of the old Country come vividly been granted to Mr. W. E. L. of my language and her husband is not working satisfactorily."
a fish porter. Summed up, the recommendations to mind and when the folk at Hom Shenton. Deceased was a solici
reads very like 1926, but no doubt. Woman at Bangor-All his fami- it will also do for 1928, for Old would appear to imply that the are remembered with love and af- tor, and acted as Assistant Land
But not only is St. Officer in Hongkong in 1918. His ly rushed at me, and I defended my Moore does not grow anw fection. Powers have no desire to insist on Andrew's Day an occasion when estate in the Colony amounted to self with a stick of sugar rock. cheerful as he looks into futurity, Man acensed at Highgate of driv- for he writes:The coal trade car special rights any longer than is Scotsmen re-unite; it is a time $12,187.
ing an unlicensed motor cycle-It never be restored to its old position, necessary in 'the interests of their when they demonstrate their char-
acteristic hospitality by entertain- Seeing a fitter, who had been re-
was not worth licensing.
of course. "His optimism that "the nationals, and that the best way ing those who have had the mis-pairing, some machinery at the
Man at Willesden--I want a sum- Government scheme will help to re- of dealing with the issue is to ar- fortune to spring from other the Oriental Tobacco Factory, Nathan moné against, a witness who de vive it very appreciably" is not range for a gradual relinquish-Scottish parentage. So to-night Road, walking out of the premises clines to have anything to do with shared by us. ment of those privileges as and there will be the old-time celebra-smoking a cigar stump, the Indian tions at the annual bail of the Swatchrian became suspicious and
In a country meeting house when conditions in China justify Andrew's Society, the members searched the man. In his pockets behaviour at Old Street-They ask brother stood exhorting his hearers which will be "at home" to practi- the Indian found four cigars. Ated for it. Magistrate You must to, testify. Hé procèded to enlage
not give people everything they
on the gift of tongues, and showed In the opinion of the Commis-tally the wholly community. the Kowloon Magistracy this mor
ask for. writer once stated that when the ning the defendant was sentenced
In placing a boy of nine or ten how man was blessed above all the sioners, the Powers would be Scotsman sets out to do a thing by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill to fourteen
animal creation." "No tongue can on probation nt Shoreditch justified in agreeing to the aboli-be generally manages to do it thor days hard labour. Mr. H. N.
talk like the human tongue," he ex- claimed. Whereupon the care tion of extra-territoriality as soon oughly; whether it be eating, Hendrikson, assistant manager; Juvenile Court, Mr. Clarke Hall said to one of the women probation of drinking or oven, perchance, work-procecuted. as the recommendations put for-ng, he makes a first-class job of
ficers-You had better see that he taker's parrot screamed "What!" The case in which a Chinese does not try to shave - himself" ward have been reasonably com- bit. We in Hongkong know how
"I don't like polo," (Laughter.) Some time ago the
"Why not?" plied with. It has always been true that is, and to-night there will was charged with possession of
boy attempted to shave himself, and, felt by all the Treaty Powers that that statement. Sassenachs, and sealed in boots, a biscuit bag and inflicted a long cut on the face.
"Too much horseplay in it," be ample evidence in support of arms and ammunition, found con- a hollowed cookery book, was con- there can be no question of aboli- cthers who do not hail from beyondcluded before Mr. R. E. Lindsell.
A will written on an eggshell was tion until China has herself given the Tweed to-day join in extending and Major Willson yesterday. Mr. newsboy; of Buenos Aires, bought probate court. The egg had been
Luis Lopez, 16, an orphaned
submitted recently in an English some earnest both of her willing. hearty felleltations to their Scot- W: D. Owen defended, and stated tish friends, appreciating them for that the luggage was given defer-
a tablet of bichloride of mercury neas and her ability to reform her their sterling qualities and know-dant by his brother's widow, and told the druggist that rats bother, the empty shell with an indelible with his last thirty centavos and blown and the will was written on Judiciary; and it is worthy of ing them to be worthy represente he did not know what it contained. ed him inordinately. He swallowed pencil. It was the testament of a notice that this requirement is tives of a rare which has done A fine of $500 was imposed and
the tablet whole and this enabled Manchester ship canal pilot. great things in the past and is the arms and ammunition were placed first in the conditions now destined fully to maintain its fine
him to survive and tell the police confiscated. suggested towards the end name f. traditions in the days to come, Nothing is, however, said regard. ing who is to judge the point us to when the recommendations have been "reasonably complied with." Dr. Wang Chung-hui expresses te gret that the immediate abolition of extra-territorial rights is not advocated by the Commission, but
the stop..
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that he had no place to sleep or ent Passengers who make the mistake- and wanted to commit suicide be- of trying to Board a street car Mr. W. C. Clark, of the Hong-cause he owed another, newaloy through the front door in Buenos kong Telephone Company, was in seven pesos. The rain had spolled. Aires may have to do battle with volved in a motor accident which the newspapers he hoped to sell in the motorman. The front door is The death occurred at the occurred at 6 o'clock on Sunday. order to redeem his debt.
for exit only, as far as the passeng- General Hospital at Shanghai Inat He was driving a car along the
'ers are concerned, and the front week, of Miss E. Fletcher, the lower road, to Repulse Bay, when,
platform is given over to a little Matron of the Hospital. Miss
private enterprise on the motor Fletcher was taken suddenly I hear a matshed, it ran into rall-
man's part. If a passenger wishes with internal trouble and although ings on the roadside, one of the
to take a package or bundle of con=" was too late to save her life. The Otherwise there was no serious everything possible was done it front mudguards being buckled.
siderable size Aboard the car, ho handy it to the motorman, and then he must realise that, however deceased lady assumed duty in damage, Accompanying Mr. Clark
walks to the rear to board the car. good the intentions of certain of Malaya in 1908 and, "apart from at the time was a licensed...
furlough, had been continuously Chinese driver, who was seated. The corpse make-up" is ond of The motorman, takes care of the China's leaders may have been in on duty at Penang, Malacca and, next to Mr. Clark, but neither was fashionable Mayfair's latest. The package, and receives his tip when Itheir offorts to improve the laws for the last four years, Singapore, Injured,
debs use grease, paint, powder, eye the passenger leaves the car.
All sorts of food he tried. And did, she lay? I'll say she
did,
She lay right down and died.