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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY DECEMBER 10, 1926.
PROTECT YOUR CAR for its "veterans," as they call all by installing a their ex-servicemon, than any "PYRENE Fire other. In fact, thore has been
Extinguisher. political competition regarding "PYRENE" will which party could do the most, kill fire without President Coolidge, has declared damagoto the
engine, woodwork that he le against reducing taxca
DAY BY DAY
WITEN AFFECTION AND KINDLY FEELING ARE REMOVED, ALL SWEET-
NESS IS TAKEN AWAY. FROM LIVE- Cicero.
There was a further Chinese cn30
or upholstery.at prosent, although there are say-of typhold notified yesteday. Water spreads Ings under the headings of la The scholars of the Quarry Bay petrol fire; sand is terest on Public Debt and the cost School are giving a display on Fri-
day next at 11 am.
'inefficient and will put the ongine out of action.
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The ss. Yatshing has cleared for Canton. The 8.8. Szechuen left for the same port yesterday.
The local weather forecast up to noon to-morrow is:-North-east winds, fresh to moderate; fair.
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of prohibition enforcement. amount of money voted in support of the two fighting arms-the Navy and the Army is about the same as last year, for the Adminis- tration is proceeding on the very Hound policy of 'avoiding peglect in the country's power to defend itself. There are interesting ex-
At the Kowloon Magistracy esterday Pion Ram, a sepoy in the periments proceeding with an all 5/2 Punjabi Regiment, was com metal airship and in view of pos-mitted for trial at the Criminal Keep a
Sessions on a charge of attempted "PYR-
sible results emerging from these. ENÉ" handy on
murder of a superior officer at car and in garage.and changing ideas of aircraft, n Whitfield Barracks on November
halt has been called be the pro- posed construction of two large' rigid airships which Congress had previously authorised. The Bud- get reflects that Amerig is taking serious thought of to-morrow and that it is prepared to do every- thing possible to maintain the pre- sent peaceful tone of international politics provided other countries are similarly minded..
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The Telegraph
FRIDAY. DECEMDER. 10, 1926.
'S GESTURE..
AMERICA'S
Perhaps the most significant gesture made by Amerien recently
A Clush Coming? Followingen protracted lull after. the reverses suffered by Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, it would appear that war operations are soon like
16.
There were 74 vessels in Har- bour this. morning, the British nambering 40. In the course of the 24-hours ending at 9 a.m. to- day, ten steamers arrived and ten departed. The British figures were four entries and four cloar-
arces.
From Messrs. Donnelly and Whyte we have received a useful diary for 1927 issued by Mossrs. Jas. Buchanan and Co., for whose Black and 'White, Royal House hold and Liqueur whiskies they are agents. The diary includes rúles of golf, tennis, cricket and auction bridge. "
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A ricsha chartered at the Star Ferry, Kowloon, yesterday even
is not known.
The 'Colonial Dispensary has is-
in the cause of international dis-ly to recommence in Centrul China.ing, was in collision with a motor armament is contained in the Bud-The Fengtien armies, with Marcar at the Junction of Nathan and get which has just been presented shal Chang Tso-in at their hend, Carnarvon Roads, resulting in seem to have worked out a plan of slight injuries to the ricsha püller. to Congress-namely, President
campaign by which it is hoped to The European lady passenger was Coolidge's request that.Congress hold off the "Christian" General thrown out, but was uninjured and postpone the construction of the from swooping down on Peking took another ricsha to resume ber remaining three light cruisers whilst the issue is being fought journey. The number of the car out with the Southerners. The which were to have been started tatter have been content for some this year. The reason given for time to hold the positions gained sued a very pretty wall calendar this postponement is that the along the Yangtze and in Kiangsi, bearing a beautiful coloured study. and part of the Fungtion plan of mountain scenery, exhibited at United States is negotiating for would appear to be the safeguard- the Royal Academy, entitled "The an extension and widening of the ing of Nanking, which is situate Sun-Kissed Hills." From the naval armament agreements which in the province of which, General . Y. K. office we have received an Chang Kai-shek sta nativo. It effective office calendar on which were come to at the Washington has, indeed, been somewhat suris a representation of a painting Conference in 1921, and this is the prising that the Nationalist troops of a tes-house waitress by the first time that anything concrete have unt before now made an enfamous Japanese artist, Utamaro. has eventuated out of America's deavour to establish themselves at
this point: Whatever the reason The following ships are expect latter-day plea for further dis-or the halting of the advance mayed to be in wireless communica armament. The question of inter-ag, it seems clear that the Feng tion with Hongkong to-day national disarmament has loomed tien armies are now to accept the Nyanza, Chungle, Delta, Shantung, Southern challenge, and it may Linan, Fushimi Maru, Taming, up largely during recent montha,wall be that the real struggle for Tjileboot, Volshellu, Van Over especially in Europe, where a supremacy is about to begin. If straten, Tjipanas, Seangbee, Kut- special Committee appointed by the Northern scheme represents sang, Aegas, Kashmir, Roko Maru, a serious und determined effort to Tjikarang, Tjibesar, Helikon, To- the League of Nations has been try conclusions with the Southern tomi Maru, Kinshar, Meiji Maru holding a preliminary enquiry into invaders, we may expect heavy. Hermelin, Venezia, Nishiyama the possibilities of the suggestion. fighting in the near future, and Maru, Pres. Wilson, Malwa, Pres. the future of China may hand in McKinley, Pheumpenh, Szechuen, America's attitude has, been rather the balance whilst the issue is Menario Maru, Macedonia, Arn hard to define, so hedged about finally fought out. So far, the bien, Lungshan, Coblenz, Taikwo with reservations have been all Nationalist armies have had mat-Muru and Qanta. her actions at Genova, but that ters pretty much their own way, and it will be interesting to see Amerien isdistinctly paci-how they shape when battling un conditions in intention and ideal der severe winter
the Fengtien forces. has never for ohe moment against
There are a number of possibilities been seriously doubted. The limi- in the situation, some of great im- tation of naval armaments under port, and, should North and South really come to grips, developments the Washington Treaty was a
of historic significance may well great step in the right direction, be the outcome. and it says much for President Coolidge's optimism regarding the future that he should ask for the postponment of construction which was sanctioned after that historic Whether the projected parley. disarmament conférence results In a further restriction of naval forces is n malter differing ic- cording to viewpoints at the mo. ment, but the latest action of the President of America will be taken as an earnest of that country's real desire to lighten the burden of maintaining costly chines against possible contingen-
cies.
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América's budget as a whole Is a very interesting one for; al- though the fiscal year with which it is concerned docs not begin un- til June next, it is indicative of the growing prosperity of the na tion that large increases in the pensions of all, "veterans," whe- ther of the Civil War, the Spanish War or the European War, are bo- Ing provided. Of all countries which were actively concerned in the late war, the United States of
America has been able to do more
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21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM
"TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following items are extract-
ed from the Telegraph files for the week ended December 16th, 1905.
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The rate of the dollar on demand was 23. 0. 11/16d.
*
In connection with the Lienchau outrage, the Chinese authorities sentenced three Chinese to decap!- tation, four others to terris of im- prisonment, two to be cangued and five to be bamboocd.
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In the baseball match, the U. S. S. Raleigh defeated the Hongkong
Baseball Club by 11 to 4.
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Lass-meetings of Chinese were held in Shanghai and Singapore in favour of a continuation of the anti-American boycott..
The wedding took place at the Union Church of Mr. R. D. Gall oway, of Quarry Bay, and Miss I. Harrison. The bride was given away by Mr. Purvis, and was at tended by Maatera D. and L. Pur- vis na pages and Miss Holmes as bridesmaid. Mr. J. MacIntyre was the "best man.”
WHO IS "THE BAT?”
MYSTERY FILM AT THE"
QUEEN'S.
GRAMOPHONE MUSIC.
THE NEW COLUMBIA: MACHINE.
Thero is a real mystery. Alm Of recent years there has been being shown at the Queen's surprising progress in the develop Theatre just now, this being
Roland West's production, Thement of machines for the repro- down of a super-criminal known, outstanding achievements Bat." It' is a tale of the tracking duction of music, and one of the by reason of his strange garb, as
has
"The Bat," and whlist, of course.
benn
accomplished by the there are any number of impos- Columbin Phonograph Company ble situations, the story has been in the production of their Intest very cleverly woven. Everything machine known as the "Vi-tonal hangs on who "The Ent" fs, and
as the tale unfolds the audience Oglumbin." then another, member of the cast duced music is to be completely is loft in myetlication. First one, The ideal function of repro-
is thought the likely man, bat at
the end there is a big surprise, the true to those great artists who nature of which it would not be interpret the 'composer's score, fusing with it some of the magic of their own musical souls. This, the Vi-tonal Columbia does exact ly-by means of a technique for which no vibration is too fast (upper register), and, no "vibration too slow (buss).
LATE SIR PAUL CHATER.
Leaves £136,000, in England.
London, Dec. 9.
The late Sir Paul Chater, member of the Hongkong Ex- ecutive.Council, left property. in Hongkong of the net value of $5,000,000 and personal estate in England valued at £136,000 met.--Renter.
The telegram gives details of the deceased's buquests, which have already been pub- lished in full locally.}
fair to reveal. It can at any rate
Hearing these new machines for the first time, one, is conscious of amazing surprise at the extra- (ordinary volume and tonal richi
ness. Every faintest pulse-beat of music is registered, every shade of every tone of each instrument is faithfully reproduced with 1f9- like clarity.
The Anderson Music Company are the local agents, and we can
be said that very few people are recommend all lovers of music to 1kely to hit upon the right man.
test the quality of these excollent There is a very able cast, includ-machines. ing Jewel Carmen, Louise Fazenda, Jack Pickford and Emily Fitzroy, whilst the uncanny atmosphere is preserved throughout. We com-turing Co., Ltd., has issued nn The Hongkong Rope Manufac-
mend this picture to those who effective desk calendar for the love the unravelling of mysteries. coming year.
The Morning Jara! Idea!
The Earl of Oxford and Asquith the elementary, or graded schools has just released, coincidental with 7. The average in the kinder-gar- his relinquishing the leadership of dens, where the religion of each the Liberal party, a new book. The child or absence thereof is given by book is called "Fifty Years of Bri- the parents, the pencentage is 10. tish Parliament." It is another "now-it-can-be-told" book. It has The Lady Chapel of Southwark none of the virtriolie, backbiting Cathedral, which is to be restored, Bavor of that book by his wife, Mar- contains one of London's most ex- got Asquith, which sent all England traordinary tombs. The monument into panic as the great and the is the figure of a man so emaciated near-great discovered confidences as to appear almost a skeleton, It made to Lady Asquith laid bare in is supposed to be that of a miser her diary. The Earl, in a scholarly who starved himself and his ser manner, merely tells what has been vants. To test his, domestic staff going on in Parliament for the last he pretended one morning to be half century. One chapter on dead. As soon as the neirs spread "Political Catchwords" is especially below stairs it was duly celebrated interesting. The Earl comments by raids on the pantry and the on his own phrase "wait and see, cellar. Presently the "dead" man which he says becums political could stand no longer the sounds of alang, was "caricatured into a ma- merriment that floated up to his 'xim of policy," and was nothing room, so he crept down to catch the.. after all but "a common colloquial culprits. But he no sooner opened ism."
the kitchen door than one of the.. servants saw him, cracked him over In a thrilling battle with an eagle, the head with the first thing that W. M. Melrose, an automobile me- came to hand, and thus converted chanic of Auburndale, U. S. A, the pretended corpse into a real one.. came off victor. The eagle attack-
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ed Melrose's police dog and the Franz Lang, of Oberammergau man grappled with the bird. Mel passion Play fame, who is now in rose was severely scratched during London and has been expressing his the struggle, but finally chocked the admiration of the metropolis, is not
bird to death.
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Said he, "I love your eyes of
blue.
Oh, kindly be my queen." That might have been a lovely
speech,
the first, of his race to be moved to enthusiasm by the sights of Lon- don. Leslie Stephen used to tell how ho once brought a famous Swiss guide to England, and, seeing him gazing fixedly over the "dreary expanse of chim- ney-pots through which the train passed into the metro- suid politan terminus, said sympa- motor-car, in a case like yours, a view as we have seen together thetically, "Ah, that is not so fine
Except, her eyes were green.
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"You must take exercise,"
n physician to a patient. The.
gives the best exercise that"
from the summit of Mont Blanc." "But, doctor, I can't afford to "Ah, sir," was the unexpected reply, buy a motor car," the patient in tones of rapture, "it is finer" growled.
•
"Don't buy oné, just dodge 'em." said the doctor.
*
A motorist who ran over "and killed a child near Zurich paid her
The story is told of a very "high father £150 as compensation. The immediately bought a brow" Hollywood woman who in father vited an English nobleman as guest two-seater car with the money, an of honour at a dinner party. On act which has provided much cynical the night of the party there were comment in the Swies newspapers. guests in abundance but no noble-
of "Sir Matthew Nathan opened the Bowling Club's ··now
A report was received at the Water Police Station last night from the President Wilson, that during the afternoon, a vest, the property of a passenger, was stolen Kowloon from a cabin. With the garment ground. there disappeared a gold Elgin, watch and rope pattern chain, with a jade pendant attaclied, valued at $235, a gold mounted pen and a gold pencil case, which with the vest, brought the total value to $268.
*At the annual meeting of the China Tradora Co Ltd., reference was made to the scheme for amal gamation with the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd..
man. The next morning the hos- It is a kindly rogulation which teas. called the Englishman to permits our prison authorities to learn why he was absent. "I grant books to their charges. The wasn't hungry," was his reply. milk of human kindness should be poured out with judgment, however, Seven percent of the pupils and for we are credibly informed by a students
Czecho-Slovakia's recent distinguished visitor to a. schools, colleges, and universities London goal that ho saw an old are atheists, or without confession woman sentenced for drunkenness, according to the statistics just made poring over a book Fungling.. She public. Among the University was very old, very short-sighted, students the percentage is highest, but she was wrealling with it. Like namely 18 percent. In the Indus a heroine, The fact that it dealt trial Schools the figure la 18; in with a wet sport may have had its the Commercial Schools 12; and in appeal, of course.