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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
YOU own greed." How distorted h MUST view of the netun facts that is we whose lot is cast in the Far OWN. IT
WOMAN IS THE SALVATION OR THE East know only too well Lori DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY: BHE Birkenhead truly represented the canÍES ITS SALVATION IN THE FOLDS situation when he spoke of Bri- | OF HER MANTLE—Amic!, Fishers in China being men, and The P. and 0.3nër Macedonia, women harmlessly and usefully which left Shanghai yesterday at living In the country ander assur 4 pm., is dus here at 6 am. on
Friday. incos given by former authorities. We have said before, and we re Having left Shanghai at noon peat it, that the foreigners in Ching yesterday, the P. and O. liner are just ordinary men and wo-Delta is due here at 6 am. on Fri men who are out East carrying on commercial, educational and other work, having no other desire than to live at peace and amity amongst those with whom they come into conthet. All that they want, and
There will be a Public Lecture at what they have a right to expect, the Helena May Institute on Wed is the safeguarding of their tradalnesday December 16th, at 6.30 p.m. and residential rights. They are given by Capt. Miles on Wireless neither oppressors nor exploiters, Telegraphy and Telephnny." "Ad-
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But extremists in China as well, as misinformed and tactless" ple at Home, help to spread the myth that fordignors in their con- tact with the Chinese are of the Bullying and oppressive type. Hence we get the Kuomintang troops being taught by catechism that Britain is their eremy be Cause alleged financial aid and
of encouragement given to militarists and by reason of the so-called ex-
dny.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE CAFE PARISIEN.
To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph
WIRELESS PROGRESS.
THE NEW BEAM STATIONS.
Rugby, Dec. 7. Questioned regarding the wire- Sir-It seems rather strange to lose, beam stations, Lord Wolmer, myself and many other patrons of Under-Secretary of the Post Office, the Cafo Parision that the Licons- stated that the agreement with the ing Bourd should refuse the licence Marconi Company provided for the to the manager Mr. Green (for, erection in this country, on behalf. after all, all platitudes to one side, of the Post Office, of beam stations they actually turned down Mr. communicating with correspond- Green, a long and respected mem-ing stations in Canada, Australia, bor of this Colony) on the grounds South Africa and India. The. of the Cafe "not fulfilling any ex-stations for the Anglo-Canadian service were now operating. The When I look back a few months stations for the Anglo-Australian and think of the many crowded services wore undergoing prelimi- evenings that the cafe has enjoyed, nury trials and were expected to be when I think of the happy crowded ready for their final tests in a fow dances of the Warrant Officers' weeks. Thus stations for the Club, of the colour, the music, the Anglo-South African and Anglo- exhibition dancing, I am inclined Indian services would, it was to think this statement a pretty hoped, be completed early in the
New Year British Wireless. poor excuse.
The Empress liners are to retensive want,” kata ver to the style of being painted all white. A start is being made with the Empress of Asia, now in duck at Kowloon,
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Posing as revenue searchers, robbers, visited a Kowloon lighter last night, and stole $16, the pro- perty of the lighter foreman. They bound up their victim before com- mencing on a search for valuables. The men made their escape.
All around us we have Cafes, large and small, Chinese owned- most of which can supply the neces- These places sary. refreshment.
MERCANTILE MARINE,
MEMORIAL. PROPOSED BRITISH WAR
Rugby, Dec. 7. Mr. Gosling, the leader of the Transport Workers' Union, intro- duced in the House of Commons Bill conferring on the Imperial
He
One of the patients admitted into the Government Civil Hospital yes-do not appeal to many Europeans as Desterday was a Chinese woman, who the Cafe Parisien does yet they is stated to have taken opium in an are, in the parlance of those in endeavour to commit suicide. She awful majesty above us, "fulfilling an extensive want," at least we pre- is now in a critical condition.
gume-go as they have their licences. Do you, Mr. Editor and readers consider that the needs of the Euro pean community should be attend- War Graves Commission power to: ed to as well as those of the Chi- nese? If so, may I ask why should erect a memoriai to officers and so many Chinese restaurants be men of the Mercantile Marine who allowed to sell refreshments in perighed in the late war. Hiquid form and a restaurant suggested that Stopney, a river- side borough in East London, For the 24 hours up to nine operated by a former Ally of ours o'clock. this morning, alx British during the Great War appealing would be a suitable site. ploitation of workers in the Con-ships arrived in harbour, and eight to bur former: Allies as well as to The Bill, which is backed by cessions. Lies of that character departed. The total arrivals were a great section of the British com- the Premier and the Labour and thirteen and departures fictoca. munity who dislike the club bar. Liberal leaders, was read a first Road, on 7th Decumber,. 1926, are readily believed by the masses The total number of ships in har- with its attendant brass rail, be time amid cheers-British Wire-
when assiduously spread by pro-bour was sixty-five.
turned down? pagandists. In the circumstances,. with irresponsible opinioas gain- ing currency at Home the truth being wilfully distorted out here, can it be wondered at that the general outside world gets so puzz. PATERSON-On 29th October, led over this China situation? 1926, at Lillian Cottage, 442. The spread of truth and honesty is King Street, Aberdeen, Sent- the great need, and' it can be said land, Valerie Lillian Murray, dearly loved infant daughter that no nation would welcome that of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Pater-more than Britain, whose policy in China has been so grossly mis- represented in recent times.
CASTRO-At No. 9, Kennedy to Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Castro," a daughter. (Macao, Shang- hai and Japan Papers please copy). -
SOL
DEATH.
The Telegraph
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER. 8, 1926,
FICTION AND TRUTH.
Commodore Pearson, who is re- lieving Rear Admiral Stirling in charge of the Hongkong naval es- tablishment, is due here by the P. and O. Hner Malwa, on Friday, accompanied by Pay Lieut. A. T. Thompson as Secretary, together with Mrs. Pearson and child.
Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Co. have issued an effective wall calendar, showing the B. I. liner Varsova and the P. and O. liner Razmak at Bombay. The custom- ury diary and almanack advertising these two lines have also been is sued.
It seems futile in this Colony to
less
Since a few months from the
make any protests. The best a little dancing, a little wine, to thing, I guess, for any live spirits help us forget the struggles we that may be left is to proceed to a are passing through. better land as quickly as possible, away from the twelve o'clock res- opening of this Cafe, I have been trictions, the drab misery of the a constant patron and I can assure life here for the average Euro-you, Sir, that I have never yet. pean-to leave this "morgue" as seen any rowdyism nor any in- quickly as possible. True, hun-fringement of the twelve 'o'clock dreds have already been forced out closing "curfew" regulations. by the present business conditions, Yours, etc., but our Government will not allow us the pleasure of a little music,
JUSTICE.
Hongkong, Dec. 8th, 1926.
He Hory Ja!
aortas.
Our Colony's History,
The return of the number of: Those who heard Mr. Lindsell's cases of notificable disease which occurred in the Colony during the lecture at the Helena May Insti
week ended last Saturday shows tute, and, to a certain extent also eight cases, all Chinese, of enteric all those who have read the news fever, of which seven were fatal. paper account of it, must have felt There was also one Chinese case One day Midas felt an acute A wealthy Englishman used to Amongst the mass of ill-inform that any resident of this Colony of cerebrospinal fever, also fatal. pain in his avala and/or aorta. take long walks in the country. ed comment on the China situa- loses a tremendous amount of in-Four Chinese cases of enteric Promptly he Rolled up to Sir On one of these expeditions he tion to which publicity is being teresting contact if he or she fever were reported in the Colony Tambulane Strawstreet, the Har- came upon a man who farmed a
knows nothing of the Chinese lan- on Monday.
ley-street expert on uvulas and/or few acres of land, and who was. given in London and elsewhere gunge and the meaning of place
removing some sheep from one these days, Mr. Lloyd George's numnes. it is, perhaps, inevitable The master of a cargo junk "Two hundred guineas," quoth Beld to the other with the aid of a
very Intelligent coollie dog. Bradford speech stands out as a that the majority of foreign resi- which left Tai Tong. Chinese Ter Sir Tamburlane, "is my fee."
Two hundred guineas is right," By the time the task was com dents here should remain unlearn-ritory, for Shaukiwan at 5 a.m. on glaring example of a man expressed in the native language, yet we December 6, with a cargo of fire sald Midas, drawing forth chequr pleted, the gentleman had taken a ing opinions on a subject regard-fear there is an over-readiness to wood on board, ran to the rocks book No. 18, and writing out a fancy for the dog, so he asked its off Fu Tan Mun pass twenty-four
owner if he wouldn't sell it. ing which he has no first-hand plead the difficulties most of hours later. The junk capsized cheque for £209.
The farmer aid he had no which fade away to a certain ex and sunk. The crew numbering, knowledge. This utterance has,
"Two hundred and nine pounds tent upon closer investigation. If eight in all were rescued by a is not," gurgled the specialist. objections, if he got a good price. incurred, as it deservedly should, one takes only the interesting fishing junk and brought back to "Add a Treasury note." Midas did. The gentleman offered £10, which was at once accepted. severe censure from many quar-legend which provides the name Hongkong.
with a groan.
After the deal was completed, the ters, and even the Liberal organ, That Ter Mur for the village just
"Have at thee," said Sir Tambur gentleman asked the farmer if it beyond Causeway Bay one instant- A Chinese woman was removed the Daily News, seeks to find exly finds a fand of great interest, to the Kwong Wah Hospital yester Jane; then, reaching for his lancet would not be more profitable to cuses for the ex-Premier. Lord and if we knew the origins and day suffering from a nasty wound stethoscope and theodolite. And breed such dogs instead of sheep. "No na," said the farmer. "I Birkenhead characterisen the significance of the names of cur in the head, inflicted with a menthe investigated Midas.
"Sorry," he announced in his can aye get merchants to buy speech is wholly irresponsible, in- Chinese streets we would, simi- chopper. The case is stated to be
larly, enter upon a much wider the outcome of a domestic tragedy, best bedside manner, "but your my sheep, but I canna aye get accurate and mischievous, which held of contact and understand the woman's husband being now uvula" and/or aorta points seven fools to buy my doga!" is precisely what it is. The ing with our Chinese friends. held in the custody of the Yaumati degrees away from the true north 29 trouble with Home politicians on
The advantages of a knowledge of police on a charge of attempted this and so many other questions top often to need emphasis here,
the language have been stressed murder. is that they can seldom look at but Mr. Lindsell's lecture didi Returning residents by the matters from other than the pure serve, in a popular way, to make and O. linor Malwa, on Friday, in
But, clude Mr."T. W. Ainsworth, Cap- ly party standpoint. If their the appeal more pointed.
without going into the Chinese tain P. and Mrs. Bell Smith, Mr.
"I have but three days to live," views did not go far afield, it language at all, the residents of C. W. E. Bishop, Mrs. H. Balean.
Mr. D. Dalgleish, Commdr. G. 8. said he, telling his piteous story, greatly matter, but this Colony could understand when their opinions are broadcast great deal more of its most in- and Mrs. Hartford, Mrs. A. O. "Can you make it four?".
"I can," said Dr. Hills, after at all over the world it is" peasible teresting past if they knew the Lang, Miss R. Luard, Mr. and Mrs.
significance of its European place A. Nicol, Mr. J. Russell, Mr. and brief examination. "You're good The Prodigy's Mother: "Of for ill-advised utterances to do a names mostly names of men. Mrs. J. Reid, Mr, and Mrs. A. R. for another twenty years. Straw course, I know, she makes little mistakes sometimes, but, you see, deal of harm. Anxiety to dis- Belcher's Street, Elliot Battery, Sutherland, Mr. P. P. J. Wode-street is an oast"-.
Thanks" gasped Midas, she plays entirely by car." credit political opponents can in Nathan Road, Peel Street, Mount house and Mr. B. J. Wynne-Jones.
"You've made me a happy man. The Prodigy's Uncle: Unfor Austin the list of such is almost this way work untold mischief to endless and contains within it, if !
How much?"
tunately, that's the way I listen," EXCHANGE RATES. the cause of international peace one had but the energy to search,
history and amity-a point which spokes the
of this little men of the Lloyd George type ap- with it. Too many of us are just Amsterdam
Colony, and of the men associated Brussels
parently seldom bear in mind. content to know nothing, or prac- Berlin.
Like so many other misinformed tically nothing, of the early history Copenhagen
of Hongkong, of the pioneers and
would not
Porie
people; Mr. Lloyd George appears the times in which they worke
to, have conjured a vision of for- Perhaps we need another Society Buenos Aires. eigners in China being a set of ug here--one which will interest Shunghat gressive people whose one aim is itself in making more readily Yokohama
available that which has already Gareyn
New York to exploit the Chinese and oppress
been written concerning the Milan them at every whip and turn. He absorbingly interesting history of Stockholm. thus jumps at the conclusion that the Colony they deserve all they get in the way of danger and discomfort. hence his remark that "forolgners”
in China are suffering from their
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You have only three days to live. In the central Sahara, men of Somewhat depressed. Midas many wondering, tribes go veiled. made for home, and, on his way, while the women are bare-faced. the humour seized him to call at Among these are the Tuaregs, who the surgery of Dr. Hills, a humble show evidences of having enjoyed a higher degree of civilization. than they now display. Though Mohammedans, the Tuaregs are monoganists and women occupy position of independence.
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last year had a difficulty, we re- member in Inding a singer who could impersonate his "Woman Without a Shadow."