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The Telegraph ·
MONDAY, JANUAYR 3, 1927.
· BRITAIN'S POLICY.
MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1927,
"DAY BY DAY.
Regarding the point of the annc. tity or Treatles, that is very na- turally insisted upon in the Mem- orandum, for the whole basis wICH WOULD CAST ALL MEN IN ONE of International dealings rests on | 21OULD.- Channing. such observance. At the same
NO PROCESS 13.50 FATAL AS THAT
It la notified that Mr. Arthur.
Tenders are being invited for time. Britain openly concedes the point that some of the existing the construction of a Mechanical
Engineer's Office at Hunghom. "" Treaties are out of date, and she is quile prepared to have them re- vised. The trouble, however, is that at the moment there is no-one with whom
she can negotiate. What, therefore, is to happen in the Interim? Britain obviously does
NEW CANTON LIBRARY:
SUN YAT-SEN MEMORIAL.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
ANOTHER ATTRACTIVE
PROGRAMME:
First steps in the creation of the big nationalist library planned for There is a bright and attractive Chungshan University will be taken programme being shown at the within the next three months, says Queen's Theatro at present, and a Canton journal. An initial fund one which yesterday attracted of half a million will be raised. large audiences. Later in additional million will be The main picture is the Gold- raised, making a founding fund of wyn production, "The Confessions $1,500,000.
of a Queen," in which the leading. Dyur Bull esased to act as At This plan has been approved by parts are taken by Alico Terry and torney General on the 20th Decem-the Canton Branch of the Central Lowls Stone. This deals with. Political Council. The plans for Court life in an imaginary little ber, 1926.
the library foundation have already Kingdom on the Adriatic, and it been drawn up.
is a very colourful story, in which The foundation will include the dissolute and thoughtless
books and $100,000 of Chinese (ness in love when he gives up the books on gonoral topics. This Throne and retires to private life
Among the passengers who left by the Hakone Maru on Saturday
not insist on the strict letter of the were Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lay, and purchase of $700,000 of foreign monarch eventually finds happi-
Treaties, but it would be well if her
position in this regard, were made a little clearer. The great need is for all the Powers to come to agree- mont regarding this Treaty ques-" tion, and we still entertain the hope that that will be one of the results of the discussions which must take place on the Memorandum..
Mr. D. Gow.
The name of Mr. A. J. Bell, ACA has been added to the list of auditors qualified under the Companies Ordinances.
nucleus library will be augmented in Paris with his wife and child. by an early expenditure of $100,000 The film is of the usual high
standard which one associates
IL PUBLIC READING ROOM. Two hundred thousand dollars of with all Goldwyn productions, the million and a half-fund will be being lavish in its aéttinga. The Government School for the used for the establishment of a throughout. training of Asiatic perauns Social Culture Department at the In addition, there is o vory ships wireless operators re-opens university, with a public rending effective Prizma colour film, show at the Post Office Building to-day room and a library of special books ng some of the world's most on social developments, revolution-beautiful birds, as well as a very The 8.9. Arafura, of the Easternary history, conomics, political funny Christio comedy. aud Australian Lino, arrived in
sciences and sociclogy.
The next change of programme port this morning with the Aus-
Important social pamphlets will will be on Thursday, when Mary
be will be available at this library. Maga-Pickford tralian mails..
zines on social topics will be sub- "Sparrows." acribed for regularly.
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Lord Inchcape's Speech. The speech of Lord Inchcape de livered at the annual general meet- ing of the P. and 0. Company 'never" fails to be interesting to us here in Hongkong by reason of the very close association between us and the Assistant Land Officer to be a De- foundation will be the special mem, ese affairs.
Any-
His Excellency the Governor has appointed the Land Officer to. bo Registrar of Marriages and the
puty Registrar of Marriages,
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In
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BUN YAT-SEN MEMORIAL foreign, on diplomatic relations An important part of the library with particular reference to Chin.
orial building in" memory of Dr. The Nationalist Government, will Sun Yat-sen. In this building will give $600,000 to the fund. be placed as complete a collection of vincial Governments will give official and unofficial sources, locu-$400,000 $100,000 is to be raised ments, pamphlets, pictures and from special contributions from manuscripts etc. relating to the government and party officials, and Chinese nationalist movement as $500,000 is to be raised from con- can be obtained.,
tributions by overseas Chinese, A general library building is also merchants, etc.
great steamship company. thing dealing with the matter of
A Bankruptcy notification states From the comments which have communication between the Far been made by the foreign Presa in East and the Old Country is bound that a first and final dividend of to be of forceful appeal, and, fur-$12 per cent, has been declared in regard to the British Memorandumthermore, Lord Inchape is a great the matter of Wing Cheong lang, concerning the future pelley of the personality who has, from time to of 140, Shanghai Street, Yauma- foreign nations towards China; it time, delivered himself of some ex- ti.
tremely pertinent remarks about is clear that there is little likelihood affairs in the Far East. The speech.
It is notified that the names of to be built, at a cost of $300,000. Of the initial half million which
The remaining $100,000. in the is to be used to launch the work," under notice deals mainly with the On Wò Steamship Co., Ltd., the affairs of the Company, the Grand Central Trust Co., Ltd., million and a half budget will be $200,000 will be given by the Cen- and it shows that the P. and and the Chai Ying Land Invest-devoted to a special collection of tral Government and $300,000 by the Treaty Powers. One French O. Company is fully alivement Co., Ltd., have been struck modern books, both Chinese and Provincial Government.
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of the proposals contained therein
being acceptable to the majority of
the
potential competition off the Register.
of air services. The Cairo-Karachi,
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journal asserts that the Powers to have been at sixes and sevens in the
air service hopes to attract passen- At a meeting of the Legislative Far East for the past five years, gers and important mails and, pre- Council held on Friday afternoon and expresses the fear that the suming that this trial service proves two new Bills, amending the in- Memorandum'may imply a further to be successful and but the fore-terpretation Ordinance and 'the drifting apart as between Britain runner of many others, there is the Promissory Oath Ordinance, were
possibility that time will witness read a first time. and France. It is, of course, trueless and less reliance on steariships-
The final of the ladies champion- that there has been a regrettable for the carrying of our mails. Jack of unanimity on the part of the There is not the slightest doubt ship singles will be played at the that much would be gained, both Ladies Recreation Club on Friday. Powers in their dealings with officially and commercially, if mail January 7th, at 3 o'clock, between China, and it was with that point services could be speeded up, and Mrs. R. E. Tottenham (holder) in mind that Britain addressed her the great Indian community ia go- and Miss Robinson (challenger). ing to be very eager to support"
His Excellency the Governor has suggestions to the other nations, anything which provides quicker seeking to evolve a friendly and mails if it does not prove too costly, received information from the generous policy on which all should There is, however, no immediate Secretary of State for the Colonies prospect of a millenium in the air, that Mr. Kenneth C. Krentz has unite. In the recent past, unhappi- and it will doubtless be a long while been appointed a Vice-Consul for ly, Britain has borne the brunt of yet before the experimental stage the United States of America in the anti-foreign feeling, and she has of air travel and conveyance has Hongkong. now deemed it wise to come cut been passed, but the P. and O.'Com- pany is showing wisdom in contem- boldly and declare her real inten-plating the future with this aspect
of affairs well in mind.
tions towards the Chinese. If the policy suggested is too liberal and edneillatory for the other Powers, then the blame for future diver- gences of viewpoint can hardly be Inid at Britain's door.
We realise, of course, that there are many debatable points raised'
TREATY PROTEST.
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The Very Idea!
Because he drank at one sitting enough and with punch enough to some 67 cups of coffee a few days again make famous, the name ago, says an American paper, a Milwaukee.
On the upper Milwaukee river, certain male "broke into fame," us people would say.
where green fields are, strewn The fact is he didn't break into along the shore, Mitchell has his fame, His picture was printed own camp where he is taking likely and his name. printed in several looking prospects under his wing, thousand papers.. But how about and some day hopes to find among it? Can you tell teacher, bright then the world potential light- and snappily, the name of the man weight champion.
When he isn't doing hat, Richie, who is the world's champion coffee drinker? Neither can we, Nor as he himself states is doing can we name the world's champion nothing running a haberdashery H.E. the Governor wished all oyster-on-the-shall gulpor, corn-on-shop in the city." Members of the Legislative Coun-the-cob eater, or the man with the cil and residents of the Colony reddest hair and the biggest feet. generally a Happy and Prosperous We prattle a great deal these days New Year, at the. Council meet about the power of printer's ink. ing which was held un Friday We often say that it's not what a person is or does that counts, but that it's getting his name in the
Says a writer in a Home paper: paper about any old thing, when' all the world sings praises to him. Why are the words of so many 'Twould seem that the tale of the songs such-to put it vulgarly, and champion coffee drinker, whoso I'm nothing if not vulgar such name no-one recalls, indicates this awful cynicism is unwarranted.
afternoon.
A convivial function was held ILLUMINATED STONE TABLETS. yesterday morning at the resi.
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dence of the Fronch Consul, at. In order to establish a perman-No. 13, Peak Road, where M. and ent protest propaganda against the Mme. Dufaure de la Prade receiv in the British Mertiorandum, but its unequal treaties, the General Peli-ed members of the French .com main purport cannot be doubted.tical Department of the Militarymunity. There Was £ largo
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Rugby, Janu. 1.
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A battery is what he craved, But then, his bill was large. He couldn't charge a new one
Stop and let the train go by,
It hardly takes a minute; Your car starts off again
intact,
And better still you're in it.
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"tripe." "Lillies" and "Roses" and "Nightingales" follow. ing hot on the heels of "Nighting ales" "Roses" and "Lillies." And the lyrislat while writing the lines was probably hoping that his wife hadn't forgotten the gherkins she was going to buy for his lunch and the composer's whole soul was centred during the composition on "There's a great picture here we the pickled cabbage he had had for ought to see."
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The old was put on charge,
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last night's dinner. But it's a "What is it?"
habit that started with the Greek "One of Rembrandt's.”
Anthology or probably earilor with movies for ages."
"Let's go. I haven't been to the Tat-sup-shetus (the Jady who also had soup) "Home Song An- nun" long before the pyramids. A man with seven wives, and with the genius for holding the No, I suppose for all time, we'll Since the establishment of tonced recently to two year's penal thinking of the filly, our "beaus" affections of all of them, was so go on singing of the lily, the rose and the nightingale and go on special bureau for the collection of servitude in Warsaw. Each of the
inland taxes on consumption and women declared they stood ready and the woodcock's" trail.
It breathes friendship and goodwill Headquarters has, says the Can gathering of guests, and the New in every part, and if the National-on Gazette, decided to erect on the Year was appropriately toasted. Kweishan Hill in Haryang seven ists do not recognise that point, tablets of stone with one of the
The Colony's financial state- then we shall be fully justified in seven Chinese characters inscrib-ment up to the end of September
ed on each, signifying the "Aboli-shows શું believing that the extremists are in
credit balance of tion of Unequal Trenties."
$6,197,506, "against $6,521,967 at control. Canton has again and
Each character will be 35 ft. the end of August. The revenue again asserted its willingness to be high and 40 ft. broad, and will be for the nine months of the year friends with those who show friend-painted white on blue ground. It had been $14,269,801 compared ship; it now has the opportunity of lights and will be visible day and period of 1925, whilst the respec- will be illuminated by electric with $17,764.481 for the same honouring its pledges. It is truc night, in Hanyang.. Hankow and five expenditure figures were that there have been some critic- Wuchang.
$16,186,778 and $19,676,067, isms of the suggestion that the' Washington surtaxes should he un- conditionally granted, these being mainly based on the argument that such a step would be to the advan-Faris
Genova tuge of the military opponents of Berlin
Oslo the Southerners, but as a nation Os
Madrid which maintains a 'policy of strict Buenos Aires' neutrality in the Chinese civil war, Hongkong New York Britain can only deal with the Chin-Asterdam
Stockholm ase cople as a whole, just Stock
Prague as the promises implied by the Lisbon
Bombay Treaty Powers at the Washington Yokohama
Brussols Conference were made to China as
Milno a whole and not to one faction or another. No policy that is just and- impartial can be made. contingent on the fluctuating, fortunes of the war. The Chinese must themselves work out their own salvation from
within; all that Britain can be ex pected to do is to evolve a broad policy applicable to the whole coun
try,
NEW
Rio... Shanghai Sliver (sput) Silver (forward)
to marry him when he was dis- charged from prison."
"Have your poems all come back darling?"
production, branch bureaux have 122.80 bech established, and, according 25.11% to news received, says the Canton 20.40 Gasttte, the head bureau has
"Back? This is what I call rub- 19.38
At Ecclesfield, a village in the" .31.67 now a daily receipt of about Sheffield district, two lanes have bing it in, I sent them four. and Holiday 12th and 1st months (Old date), is ing couples. In future no raucous me nine!" 46 7/16 $30,000. The total receipt for the been set aside for the use of court hanged if they haven't returned 4.867 estimated at about $500,000 to mator horns are to disturb the If we would just forget that wo
$600,000.
tranquillity of the by-ways, accord-
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ing to the order of the authorities, are perfect ladies and gentlemen, and crunch our food loudly and A large number of distinguished
with vigor at our dining tables, Holiday residents, including His Excel- He: You are getting terribly our teeth would last years longer
.34.80 lency the Governor and Lady Cle-thin, aren't you?
meati, assembled in the saloon of 15.10% the N.Y.K. liner, Hakono. Mara on
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.6 18/1 Saturday morning to bid farewell Holiday to the Lord Bishop of London, Dr. 25.1/16 Winnington Ingram; when he de- 24.15/16 parted for Singapore. When his -British Wireless..
Lordship left for the ship on the Missions to Seamer launch "Day. spring, about a hundred, boys from the Diocesan Boys School who were just of Murray Pier, fired crackers until the Japanese boat was reached.
The following telegram has been received from the Bishop of Lon- don-"St. John's Cathedral, Hong kong-Happy memories of glorious "Hongkong..
od bless you all London,"
She: Yes, isn't it wonderful?
and gives less woe while we have them.
This from Dr. Boyd S. Gardner, Characterized in his prime as dental surgéon. The doctor ex- the most gentlemanly boxer in the plains that there is nothing for the game, and known throughout the teeth quite so good as bone-plek- country as the man whose lighting, toast-crunching, celery-crack- ning like punch sent Benate Leo- ing, and all the various forms of nard, retired lightweight cham- mastication upon which Etiquette pion to the canvas when they with a capital. E frowns. Which fought in Madison Square Garden, will win, good teeth or fine man- New York in 1021, Richie Mitchel ners? It will be a brave maa or to-day has only one ambition, to woman who dares say the former develop another youngster clover shall be frst.