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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1927.
A FLIMSY EXCUSE.
Apart from
consequences
PJ
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
DAY BY DAY.
ALL GREAT MEN- ARE IN SOME DEGREE INSPIRED,—Tully,
There have been no cases of notifiable disense reported in the Colony for the past three days.
Reports were current in town.
1927.
21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS, FROM TELEGRAPH FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended. February 10th, 1900:1
The rate of the dollar
far as Japan is concerned, there is no immediato necessity to move troops, owing to her close propin- quity to China, whilst in the case of.tho. United States Mr. Chen cannot be ignorant of the fact that marines are being missed at Guam and in the Philippines for the ex- press purpose of being us hour at hand as possible.in case emer- to-day that the river atermer. Sal demand was 28. 04. gencies arise. Britain being tent was denied in Cunten in con, nection with some trouble with the thousand miles away, it is ascrow.. Baron Shidéhära rightly says, only natural precaution that sho should take time by the forelock Mr. Eugene Chen knows as well as anybody that there is nothing either coercive or provocative in
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Mr. and Mrs. Bunje, Mra. II. N, Stone are due here on the G. Earle, Miss D. Stone and Miss Haruna Maru, which left London on January 1at.
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The Very Idea!
The argument had been all on. Mrs. Brown's side throughout the evening, and poor Brown was dis- tinetly fed-up.
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"You seem to think that a cold in the head means nothing to a on woman," stormed his wife.
don't know of anything more annoying!"
Her husband peorod over the
The annual report of the Hum- phreya Eatate and Finance Co., newspaper he had been endeavour- Ltd., showed a net profit of ing to read.
"No?" he countered, with a rare $125,671. A dividend of 8 por cent. was recommended, leaving fash of spirit, "How about lock-
JA?" $5,070 to be carried forward.
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The death occurred from small-
Pex of Mr. E. A. Bonner, of the
the movement of these Britisht. Wor Bro, J. Owen Hughes was firm of Denny,and Bowley.
At the Masonic Hall last night, installed is District Grand Master
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The Hongkong, Canton and
of the District. Grand Lodge of lacno Steamship Company's pro- longkong and South China,
Amongst the passengers, whe arrived by the x.s. Patrocins yes- terday were Bishop and 37rs. Welch, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Priest jey and Mr. and Mrs. Ho Ki..
fita for the year were $104,080, änd n dividend of $1 per share was proposed.
Christ Churel, Shameen, of Mr. C, The marringe took place at
L. Pagat and Mias H. T. Mend.
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My cutie's got a aweetle, My sweetie's got a cutie, Her cutie is a beauty.
But his sweetle's rather
menty,
Guess I have to do my duty, Like Napoleon or Beatty,. So I'll go and see her cutie, While he goes and sees my
awcetie.
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Master George Lascelles, Prin- cess Mary's eldest son, has been
A Chinese woman was injured The Governor of Macro deniedra "blooded" by Short huntsman to through Jumping from a moving report from the Chinese Minista: the Branthum Moor Foxhounds, tral yesterday. She was taken to to sell Macas elther to Britnin orLascelles. tram-car at Des Voeux Road Con-in Paris that Portugal was willing the master of which is Viscount
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forces. They are being sent East for expressly the same purpose that the United States-is despatching marines to Guam and Manila.and for the same reason that the Ameri can military authorities are calling for ex-Service mon to volunteer to go to Tientsin--mely, to be at hand should untoward events occur.
As a result of this latest develop ment, the cutside world will be able to judge the difliculties which Bri-the Goverment Civil Hospital" France. tain has had to face in attempting to reach a settlement with the Nationalists. By the liberality of our offers to the Nationalists, we have shown that we would like to regard their leaders as people in whom we could put our trust. The
The following promotion appears sudden turn now taken by Mr.the Admiralty on Dec. 31-Licut in the firm of Deacon, Looker and in the half-yearly list published by Mr. V. M. Dencon, senior partner Eugene Chen, however, is almost enant-Commander (E.) to Com-eason, left the Colony after 20 sufficient to warrant doubt on that manden, EJ. H. H. Villers Sunley,
years' residence. Tamar, for Hongkong Yard. point. No pegotiations, empecially when based on give-and-take, fis these are, can hope to come to
Clive, C.A.C, appeared in the New The name of Mr. Robert Henry Year Honours List for a K.C.M.G. Peking, and is now, British Mints He formerly served at Tokyo and ter at Teheran.
Master Lascelles is not yet four years of age. He was born on February 7, 1923.
arrived in Hongkong on his way to Prince Arthur of Connaught Japan to invest the Emperor with end of the present season, claims Short, who is to retire at the
were elaborate celebrations, the his body broken, but is emphatic, the Order of the Garter. Thers to have had almost every bone in Prince being given a very warm in the opinion that hunting is the welcome.
best sport in the world.
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Leading Seaman Chrisholm of
The Green Island Cement Com. HMS. Iraquois reported, to the pany reported a profit of $137,219. Police last night that he lost a-
A dividend of 20 per cent. and a
where between the Post Office and proposed, leaving $52,219 to be the Soldiers Home, Wanchai.
carried forward..
the more serious fruition unless there is faith in as-wallet containing about $15, some. / bonus dividend of 5 per cent, were
which may
arise
The W
Squadron Medient
:
Parable of the Sower-
A schoolboy's version of the
"The good sced are the good people who get married and have children, some twenty-fold, some fifty-fold, and some a hundred- fold."
Woman, whon another woman was bound over at Acton for assaulting For: I am staying at the house for the benefit of my "
Officer on the North America and NEW YEAR GAMBLING. health. Commander II. E. R. Stephens, West Jadles Station is Surgeon- G.B.E., who served affcat in the Alacrity, dispatch vessel in China.
surances given. Britain has again therefrom, Mr. Eugene Chen's and again made it clear that the deventh-hour refusal to sign the souling of troops to the East is agreement which had been virtual-purely a precautionary measure. ly reached between himself and Mr. Mr. Eugene Chen believes, or says O'Malley is likely to react most unhe deca, that intimidation is the favourably, in all quarters of the object. In the face of such wilful globe, on the Nationalist move blindness to the facts we can scarce- ment. The whole world has beeny be blamed if we begin to have closely watching the attempts which doubts as to the utility of further broke into two factories at Water: Eritala has been making to adjust conferences with the Nationalists.
Slandering the Dead..
affair at Yaungat, in which thieves In connection with a recent
loo Road and removed a number of spindles and machine parts, the police have arrested a Chinese, and recovered $200 worth of the atolen property...
i.
POLICE RAID AT WANCHAL What are you doing for a living? Solicitor, at Bow County Court:
a watchmaker's shop at Wanchai,
"Led by
Debtor: I have three sons work- Detective-Sergeant
ing. Rozesley, a party of police visited yesterday, their unexpected entry interrupting a game of paika that
carved out of coal, is one of the "A football cup, 1 cwt. in weight, is in prouress, and causing articles fashioned by Mr. George taken into custody, of whom only Whitwell, near Worksop. stampede. Seventeen Chinese were furton, an engine. winder, of Coal- five appeared in Court when the carving, which calls for extra- case was heard this morning at the ordinary care and patience, as a Central Magistracy. the game was played in the rear is Mr. Turton's sparetime hobby, modelling material more brittle Sergeant: Rozeskwy stated that than coal would be hard to find, of the premises, and in addition to and he has gained several cham- the men who played dominoes, there pienship medals for his work.
P
her differences with the National- ists at ankow, and the impartial observer, as he followed the deve lopments, was likely to be impress- Of late years there has been a el mbre by evidences of straight. marked growth in the tendency of As from Jan 4, Lieut. F. G "memoir" writers to glory in "ex Hughes has been appointed navi dealing than by anything sensing the wonker side of the gator of the aloop Snapdragon Unhappily for the Nationalists. Mr.lenders of cur national life, and, in target-towing sleep in the Atlantic Eugene Chen's latest manoeuvre the sensational libel action Just Fleet. Lieut. Hughes was the will be regarded in many quarters concluded at Home in which a des- navigating officer of the sloop were also four others who made up cendant of the great Gladstone hus Valerian when she foundered in been at law with a Captain Peter the tremendous hurricane off Ber- Wright, we see yet another instance muda on Oct. 22, and had formerly of this tendency. Apart altogether served at Hongkong. Court at Home and whether the from the issue of libel before the
as an act very closely resembling Evasion and trickery, for knowing the facts us he did, the reasons for declining to append his signa- ture to the document cannot be viewed as anything other than the Bipsiest of excuses."
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have to start all over again,"¡
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Some more "howlers": She bade him welcome with p símile.
1.
An example of translation from French-1 have tiever broken This man wat fined $8, as also into the bar, but the thought that were three other defendants. The it was there has often given mé fifth man was discharged.,
courage."
Of the twelve absent défendante, two forfeited bail of $75 each, and the others hail of 35 each.
Forten's barometer has # Vernier scale,ap called because it helps to give us vernier the cor rect barometer reading...
A-watershed-is-a shed in the sea-
mahjongg party in front part of
He recently completed a replica, however, were not arrested. the establishment. These latter,
in coal, of the headstone erected above his father's grave, the. One of the defendants present in lettering and floral designs on the Court pleaded that he was only a stone being. reproduced to the present Lord Gladstone was justi-Main Street,
Darting across the roadway in visitor paying a New Year com minutest detail. His tools are a
a little Chinese boy fiel in calling Captain Peter got into the way of an approach of the shop. It was just bad luck
plimentary call on the proprietor pocket-knife, a chisel, and a file.
"Sometimes a bit of work may Wright a "liar, coward und a fool," ng car, yesterday, and was knock. we think there will be very fewed down, one of the rear wheels which brought about his being in be nearly finished," he anid to me, For many weeks past Mr. Chen people who will not agree that this passing over has, legs, Police the place at the very moment when "when a blow from one of my and Mr. O'Malicy have been nego-habit of slandering deed politicians whistles were sounded and the it was raided by the police. At the tools a little heavier than usual tiating, during the whole of which and raking over the frailties of police arrived on the scene, to take time, he was watching the mah-will ship it, which means that
their private lives is a thoroughly the driver into custody and the jong game, time the Nationalist Foreign Minis bad one, worthy of sternest-con- injured boy to the Government of the shop," Mr. Lindsell pointed But you were found in the rear ter has been fully aware of the fact demnation. There have been quite Civil Hospitali
out. that British troops were being sent number of books published lately, East as a precautionary measure which the Daily Mail exposed only who is charged with manslaughter Magi
Defendant:-I went in to get a including the notorious "fake" The Chinese motor car driver, in case British lives and property a few wouks ugo, in which the ball-as the result of a traffic accident,
The Magistrate-O, I'nce-but that won't wash. were placed in further jeopardying interest has centred mainly, again" appeared before Mr. During the conversations, Mr. Around scandal and ill-natured gos-Schofield at the Central Magis sip, and it is high time that the racy this morning. Mr. C. A. S. Chen does not appear to have once great publishing houses at Home Buss, who is defending, asked for raised this point, preferring, it set themselves against the publica-a remand until Wednesday, which would seen, to allow matters to ion of this kind of stuff. We Was granted, the time being fixed think that publishers in this matter for 2.30 pm. The defendant was reach the final stage and then to are mostly to blame, for they have driving a car at West Point when trot-out these military movements hel ed to create the demand" for the vehicle knocked down a cargo as a pretext for refusing to endorse this class of so-called literature.coolie, killing him instantly, the final understanding.
The great public men of Britain No-one
still live in a pretty strict world, is likely to be impressed with this where moral values are not for piece of obvious camouflage, and it gotter and where there is as high
standard #8 is only natural that competent aba
pertains
in servers should Beatch around for country. And after strenuous lives the comparable class of any other the real reason of this sudden of public work it is not just that Paris
Brussels change of front. In one 'quarter, their memory should be tainted by
Amsterdam it is suggested that Mr. Chen has makers thereof would never daro Copenhagen
slanderous assertions, that
the Berlin.. had difeulties with the irrecon-to make whilst their victims were Prague cilables in another, it is inferred alive. It might not legally be pos- Galo
Oslo. | that he is not a free agent. Both sible to libel a dead man, but it is Liebor
fair, from honourable to slander his Bombay conclusions will strengthen the immemory
Hongkong pression that the Kuomintang'
Now. York Kowloon Fire Brigade was called Geneva Soviet advisers are the dominating.
out to Reclamation Street at 7am Man element in the Nationalist camp yesterdayton mall bike in, a Stockholm
Vi Mr. Chen says it is algnificant that second floor back room used as a
Helsingfors neither Japan nor the United dwelling Appliances were not used t
the fire being subdued by buckót Athens States are concentrating armed Central Brigade wore called to the a
Buonos Aires forces in Shanghai. But that ar- Dairy Form premios youterday Shanghal
afternoon but was not required, the Yokohama gunout is easily countered. So alarm-having-been-given-on theöllvor (spot)
fusing of an electric wire. Silver (forward).
EXCHANGE RATES.
Y. M. C. A. ELECTION. in which ships can shelter during
a storm...
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TOWN COUNCIL CAMPAIGN,
The spine is a lot of little bones | thất: run up and down the back. The head sits on one end, and I ait upon the other.
An election is shortly to take London, Feb. 8. place in connection with the Mud- ford-on-Sea Town Council which
"That seems 4 nice kind little 123.25 has been formed by the YMCA boy of yours, Mrs. Prune," said in Kowloon. At present, the Pro- the visitor, watching a boy who, 20.40gressives have a majority on the was fondling a cat. "What are 18.19 Council, the membership being you going to make of him when he 103 Progressives, 5; Moderates, 2; and grows up??
.34.88 12.1944
Sociallats, 2...
18.86 .2.17/82
"Well, miss," said Mrs. Prune, .5.27/32
There are, however, three yacan- "seeing that he's so fond of 1/5.63/84cies, and, for these no fewer than aninials, we were thinking of.
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six candidates have come forward. making him a butcher." 1.85;1/32
2522 They ore:-Erogressives, 'Messrs. .26.22
118 Sewell and McArthar; Moderates,
18.18 Messrs. Keates and Walker; Socia
84.3753ists, Meaare. Long and Munn.
102%
.29.04
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The election takes place on the
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"Would you," said "the, self-
made man, "would you love my
daughter just as much if the had
12th instant, and commencing on no money?!!
40 Monday next, there will be a "Of course," answered the 2/84 week's campaign, during which the young man.
3.3/16 candidates and their supporters Then you must be a half-wit.
will addross various gatherings.
Get out!"