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The Telegraph
MONDAY, JANUARY, 24 1927..
BRITISH LABOUR
OUTLOOK...
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MONDAY, JANUARY 34, 1927.
funda are being wrongly spent or That is o very important
not.
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point for the Unions, especially in
· DAY BY DAY."
THE BONG OF YOUTII 19 THE SONG,
view of the opinions expresadoF ALL SONGS-Alice E. Argente.
during and just after the general strike that the Uniona who sup-. ported that strike wore guilty "political" action.
The people of Britain seem to be settling down to serious considera, tion of the Trade Union problem with the object of clipinating ta worst funtures. At this time of
There have been no cases of notifenble disease reported over the Week-end.
The temporature in Shanghai at & a.m. to-day was 28, compared with 54 in Hongkong
静修
The B.I. ss. Talma, which left
day there can be ao posle Joybt Singapore on the 21st instant, is
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CORRESPONDENCE.
SCHOOL "RESULTS.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
At Liverpool Collegiate School prize-giving the headmaster, Mr. S. E. Brown, read the following extracts from an 'article criticising. last year's prize-giving, which ap Sir, In reply to "Pro-Educa.peared in the Third Form Maga- tion and "Fairness," I would'ven-zine" ture to say that had they read my The speakers appeared to have letter more closely, they would have nothing to day, and there was noticed that I said "among the quite a famine of dictum. Tho larger schools of the Colony," By chole was composed of quite dap- that I did not mean that the "pri per little boys, their facos shining vate schools were unworthy of with happiness and soap, and with their beautifully manicurad Anger- compare a mountain to a 'molchill. nalis one scarcely recognised them. By the larger schools, I meant But lit ja all over now, and the those that sent in a large number choir-boys can get dirty again.
The writer was" probably a boy aged 12, said the headmaster.
regarding the right of workers to due here at 7 a.m. on the 26th in-notice." It la obvious one cannot
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The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on Mr. H. A. Līm,
Christ's Collage, at Cambridge on December 18.
The E. and A Company's Arafura, which left Moji on the 21st instant, is dus here at day light on the 26th instant.
Fat
To-day's Observatory report says the monsoon will moderate. The local forecast up to noon to-mor- row la-North-east winds, fresh: cloudy.
of entranta.
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While he was calling on his
girl, The gas man came.
and
The bill was late Off went
the gas,
Oh, gosh, that made him
mad.
Y
.The Christian Churches of South
obtain three passes is indeed a very To enter three candidates, and
creditable achievement, but from information obtained through an authentic source, I have discovergiTM that several schools usually send in their weak candidates under the heading, "Private Study, thereby preventing what would have been a dire calamity-namely, a greater percentage of fallures. Are these to be included in the results? If so
(and they ought to be included), Africa have declared that, the different percentage of successes Charleston is esentially a Kallir would then have been worked out.
dance and "have launched a cam- Spenking of the. Sacred Ileastpaign against the dance craze School, I noticed that my critics which has seized this country. made no comment whatever on the The Very Rev. W. A. Palmer, Junior Local results of the school which they so strongly dofond. In the list of candidates from the The proprietor of a travelling said school entering for the Junior "monkey show" was fined $5 by Examination; I was struck with Mr. B. E. Lindaell this morning on the fact that there were only six a charge of causing an obstruction entrants, but I was astonished the through setting up his show in Pok-more when no successes were, men- fulum Road.
organise for their mutual self-stunt. grofqetlan and in order to obtai tolerabio terms of employment and reasonably pay, but it la pot yet clearly pyough understood that the Trade Union mayoment, in so far as it is politicat is mladicted to the cause of much trouble In the past. Since thu defeat of what was obviously a "political" move in bay last. Labour leaders have had their attention sharply called to the dangers of exploiting the Trade Union movement for, politi- eni anda, and the workers, of the country themselves are also much more enlightened as to what are the legitimate functions of the Unions to which they belong. Generally speaking, there is
learer atmosphere and keene: perceptions in the world of organised Labour at Home, and this is a most hopeful augury for the future of British industry, which in the opinion of so many well-qualified observers, is bright as it has been for many years past.
Distorting The Truth.
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The office of the Principal Civil Medical Officer will be removed from the Government Civil Hos- pital to the Post Office Building, 3rd Floor, to-day.
tioned.
Dean of Johannesburg, who spent twenty years among the natives as
missionary, said that modern ballroom dances approximate to the dances of the Bantu people.
"When a nativo secs Europe".ns dancing nowadays," he said, "he must wonder why missionaries in- variably try to stamp out the öld I had not the least intention of antive tribal dances. He aces The engagement is announced, under-rating the successes of any Europeans to-day dancing in a between Gerald T. Whitehead and particular school; I merely stated style similar to that of the bar- Dorothy, eldest daughter of F.what is the real fact. I had no baric dances which take place at Carey-Bouch, of Elmsfied Ottinge, ulterior motive, and if I have un-his own kraaf." ** Kent and granddaughter of the wittingly "thrust upon" the Col late J. Ross Anton, of Hongkong. lege "greatness" it will only be Pro istitia et Pro Bene Publico."
Yours, etc,
RENDER UNTO CAESAR. Hongkong, Jan. 22nd, 1927.
December 20,
Prince George received many and congratulatory messages birthday gifts on among them being a telegram from those he served with in the China Squadron. Flags were flown at the various Government Offices in honour of the occasion.
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Barrister, at Bow County Court: Your wife had money, when you married? Debtor: Yes, I don't be- lieve in face values. .
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It was inevitable that the con- ference of all the Executives of the various Trade Unions which belong to the Trade Union Con- gress should uphold the action of the Council in calling off the
For some time past it has been general strike of May last. The feared that the Chinese telegraph
A solicitor told a debtor'at Bow members of the Miders' Federa- authorities in Hankow have been
Sir, Through the medium of County Court that the plaintiff tion and a few others wished to distorting and severely consering Press messages from that centre,
your paper I wish to point out to wished to take a sympathetic view censure the Council for its act of and an even more serious allega-
Most Fair," whose letter in your of the mattre. Debtor. Then he Saturday's issue I read with in-had better let me have my fare "aurrender" but the great bulk eftion has now been made to "the
terest that he entirely sides with home, I have not it.. trade union opinion has come to effect that there have been obvious
Mr. J. D. Bush, a new member one school. His writing scarcely." realise that the general strike was attempts to tamper, by mutilation
bears out his nom de plumme. I Willesden magistrate to a bus-j or deliberate delay, with the com- of the Board of Directors of the wish also to thank "Pro-Educa band: I should think that thou- a mistake and that its prolongation |munications between Sir Miles Chinese Y.M.C.A. and a former would have "inflicted an even Lampson and Mr. O'Malley. Last professor at Peking Government tion" for the honour he claims for sands of men have worse wives greater harm on the trade union week, instances were cited in the University, presented the certi- the Sacred Heart School for the than you have. Man: And thou-
Northern newspapers of Press fientes and prizes at the speech full percentage of passes at the sands have better.
last Matriculation examination, movement than was suffered by its telegrams which had been distort day of the YM.C.A." Day School on ill-advised commencement.
Speaking at the dinner of the And fed to the extent of altering the Saturday evening. Mr. Huang and I believe the staff of the school The Standing Orders Committee of messages in such a way that they Hain Chao, a member of the As-will show even more energy to do Surveyors Institution in Glasgow recently Mr. John Gilchrist, the che conference also decided a very that intended by the senders, presided.
gave an exactly opposite meaningsociation's Educational Committes,
In reply to "Most Fair's" asser- president of the Scottish branch, important point of procedure As one commentator observed,
tion that the Sacred Heart School said he once asked a candidate at imely, that the Executive had a there was nothing clever about It is expected that Dame-Ade- sent upwards of 10 boys for the an oral examination of the institu
Junior Local under privatę study, tion what was the best time bɔ right to decide on the Council's such tactics, for eventually the laide Anderson will eventually het regret to say that this is not the cut a hedge, meaning "the time of
truth. would be disclosed. But offered an appointment on the action without consulting the, when it comes to mutilating or Board of Trustees to administer case, We did send in boys under year." The young man replied, members of individual Unions. delaying messages from or to the the British share of the Boxer In- One is left with the reflection that British official who is carrying on demnity, on various forms of educa conversations with Mr. Eugene tion, research and health improve Chen, it is a much more serious" ment. She was a member of Lord development which has to be Willingdon's Boxer Indemnity faced. Apparently, matters rench- Commission, which visited China cd such a stage in this regard in the spring. that recourse bas been had!
Safer though more cir-
the extremist element of the moye- ment which was responsible, for the holding of the "inquest has had a severe, set-back, and that the moderate elements of the Labour to
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the best for their boys.
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private study, but they were either"When yer külfe's sharp." of the academic year or merely answer the question, Mr. Gilchrist While that. did not exactly boys who enma during the course Class 3 boys, who, through the re- said he awarded full marks. It quest of the class master, were was a good answer, and might sent to the examination and among apply to more work than cutting. the six junior candidates under hedges. When they had, a'job to the name of the school two were do let them take the first oppor- promoted from Class 4 to 2 and tupity of doing it. Charged with being in possession yet I understand they did pretty world are in a strong ascendant.cuitous routes. It is not definite of a quantity of wood which borewell,. The reason why we give The appeal for general co-apera- ly stated
When Mr. Fleet Goldsmith rode that these impro marks of, having been freshly cut double promotion is that we have his own horse Escaped Lunatic in por methods have been depted from a Government planation, a found. It applicable, because in the College Steeplechase at Wind- tion which was made by Mr. J. R. with the knowledge of the leaders Chinese told Mr. R. E. Lindsell this 1925 one boy was promoted from sor last month, he was, in effect, Clynnes at the conclusion of the of the Nationalist Governments morning that he was given the Class 2 to 4 and he passed the celebrating the most exciting in- conference should have a good re-and we are prepared to admit the wood by a friend, and also that he examination splendidly,, (passed cident in his own career.
possibility that they are the work sult, for he is one of the few of subordinates of the extremist picked it up from the ground. Re-in seven subjects except drawing.) He boasts that he himself is an tabour leaders endowed with atype. At the same time, a moral not have it both ways," the, Magis- marking that the defendant "could
The Sacred Heart School gets escaped lunatic, and that this was really "leading" personality.
no support either from the Govern- This reason for giving his horse the duty lick on the Chinese authori
ment or from the public (unlike strange name. There has been much of impurities to see that at any rate so far trate imposed a fine of $10.
as diplomatic communications are
in. to finish
the ance happening in the Trade concerned there shall be some Two armed robbers, who entered "Most Fair" should not have any race, and is to be put up for Union world of late, and on Satur-guarantee of non-interference. If a matshed occupied by a stall-hoki-prejudice against the school; but auction day we received a precis of a very the Nationalist cause is such that cr and his wife, near the try to promote education and not but Mr.
it heeds resort to such methods, Wongncichong Road, early this to do any harm to it-Yours, etc., his mace from a lunatic asylum at far-reaching judgment which has then it is in a poor way. In any morning, were forced to flee when been delivered by M Justice Eve event, such tactica will in the long the man, after being stabbed in the on the question of whether a mum-run recoil on, those who make use hend with a sharp instrument.
seized
"set achopper and ber of a Trade Union can apponl
about his assailants. He wound- against the decision of the Regis. trar of Friendly Societies regard- ing the objects on which the funds of a Union may be spont. The Registrar decided that the paris objects on which the funds of the Brussels, Shop Assistants Union were being Amsterdam
Borlin expended were not political and Copenhagen that he could not intervine, and.
of them.
EXCHANGE RATES.
gers
Mr. Justice Eve said he could not nos Aires
Lisbon upset that decision because the
Shanghai Legislature had contemplated the Koba
New York such a matter should be decided | Goniva" by the Registrar and not by the Stockholm
Milan
Courts. The Courts could not Ogle take away the functions of the Registrar. And so it has now been lo
Bombay laid down that the Registrar of Hongkong Friendly Societies is the official Silver (epot),
Sliver (forward) who shall say whether a Union's
ed one of his unwelcomed visitors
It frilled the other Colleges.) Therefore
1. S. BHAK, Headmaster Sacred
Heart School. Hongkong, Jan. 24th, 1927.
at
Plumpten races, Goldsmith won
the end of last year.
He was formerly a Hampshire county councillor, and lived at Petersfield. In February 1925 ho was accused at Winchester Assizes of breaking windows in bla mother-
house and sentenced w twelve months' imprisonment. Later he was sent to Park Prewett Asylum, near Basingstoke,,
in the leg, and was turning on the PROFESSOR LANGSNER, a other, when both deemed discre- tion the better part of valour and bolted. It was discovered subse- 'quently, that property to the value .122.50 of $20 was stolen.
Rugby, Jan. 22.
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Paris, Jan. 25. According to the newspapers,
Professor Maxmillian Langsnor, phychologist, hypnotist and tele- CATALAN CONSPIRACY, 20.47% Mra Susan Wilcockson, Lashpathist, who passed through here ington-rond, Eastbourne, widow of Inat July and gave several demon- 192.724 Mr. Herbert Wilcockson, formerly fatrations of his powers has inform
217/32 of Shanghai, left £34,010, with neted the management of the Queen's. 467/10 personalty £33,435. Mrs. Wilcock-Theatre to postpone his engage 2/05 son gave £1,000 to St. Dunstan's Imont until Monday, January 31st. .2/0.3/02
The Professor is sailing from 4.85% Blinded Soldiers and Sailors'
26,20 Hostel £1,000 to St. Bartholo Shanghal on the President Harri 111% mew's Hospital; £500 to the Chilson and will arrive here early Mon- Signor Garibaldi and the Catalan 16.18dren's Hospital, Great Ormond- day morning. On his former conspirators have been liberated, 169 street;, $500 to Dr. Barnardo's visit, due to illness, the Professor having been imprisoned since 20.97 Homes; and £1,000 upon trust for gave but one public, performance November 18, and thus completed. 515/15 her companion, Gertrude Ellen at the thientro Royal. At the the sentences, imposed. 1/0 1/01 Baye, if in her service at her Queen's Theatre, the Professor The Minister for the Interior denth with remainder to the Mid-will give a change of programm has signed deportation orders in 20.5/10
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