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The Government notifies that harbour survey operations have now beth completed, and the ètrictions are withdrawn.
1
During the absoned on leave of Sergeant Nolloth, Pelico Sergeant Dickson of the Water Folice Station will take charge of the Hawker Department as from to
SPATS AND BREECHES
Westernised Chinese Nationalists.
meat. But, Fronch Industry has of late, like that in every other country, experienced a slowing-up and there has been a rapid growth in the figures of the unemployed. | Lucas,
The problem of France's popu
Hankow is disappointed with the never been abroad. All four unite iation usod to be one of an entire
appearance of the now Natidhilist in heartily detesting the Russians 19. different nature, namely, how
e-Govertiment, says Sir Potölval associated with the Government as to maintain the population in view
Phillips, the Daily Mall's specini | "advisers," and whose advice la correspondent at Hlinkow." He reckoned batter than their com" of a falling birth rate. Whethor
fils Excellency the Governor has continues:It is so different from pany. I have heard them con- fairly rapidly-Increasing popu-bhiinted Mr. Kwok Slu Laps what was expected. The people temptuously referred to · ឆង lation, such as we have in Britain, a member of the Court of the Uni- | were justified in thinking the "Lenin's Burbit|Alib.” la blessing in the present econ-versity of Hongkong for n périod "lberation of the oppressed," ad One of the most poltshed speci- long dvortised by thelt advance mens of European clvilleation in omic state of the world is extreme of three, yedre.
propagandlats would be Chinese this galaxy is Mr. Eugene Chen, ly doubtful, and the recent French At the publle meeting of the in butward form as well as "In the new Minister for Fötöign expansion is not unconnected with Hongkong Lodge, of the Theobol-character:
Affairs Dignifii I members of the cal Society, on Thursday, Mr. DO the growth In the native popula-de Silva, F, T. S... gave an address ou entry of the pilgrims from him with
They are neither. The pump- Chinese community contemplate a shudder. Mr. Chen tions of her near-neighbour on "Shintolam and the Pagoda." Cipton,, attended bý děroplane an-has nothing Chinese about him, countries. It has for years been
tics overhead and the explosion of unides it be a slight cast of coun- well-known that France has a
Two cars were involved in a many Bre-crackers underfoot, re-tehance which is by no means con- colliston on the Repulse Bay Road,vealed to the anxious léčál popu- vincing. He was born in Trini- kenius for absorbing foreigners, yesterday. The extent of, the act several disillusioning and dis- ddd, and at one time during his and yet to tomarkably exempt illid caused was very alight, concerting facts, not the least be- chequered career is an anti-Bri- from the troubles of mixed nation- and one of the occupants was in- ing that thelf future masters dro tish journalist it suited him to
jured.
a lot of young gentlemen in tweells claim British nationality, -- alities. The gradual absorption of
of blus fours and spats, with a He looks Western, but he hates florid taste in Bond-street ties and the West. His brilliant eyes blaze pest-war foreign elements by such an old country as France--tradi-
predilection for talking English viciously behind his gold-rimmed, spectacles when he porles Great tionally characterised by its homo-
among themselves.
What, ask the puzzled inerchants Britain for her Imperilistic sins geneity was providing a study of
and middle-class Chinese, and oven and his slender hands excitedly. the coolles, is the difference be saw the air.. His command of tween the foreigners they know English is well-nigh perfect when. and a lot of Chinese who ape them he talks: he writes it far better in every particular? How can the than many native sons of Biltain." spirit of nationalism live in a Bri Mr. Chen wears white spats be- tish trench coat or American low his carefully credsed trousers. patent leathers? Are they being lle is a credit to his London taller. exploited by a new type of foreign He quotes Kipling and Hardy with easy. confidence Some of his invader posing as Chinese?
I am inclined to think that many ironic despatches, indited from the. even more urgent questions will Foreign Offee at Canton, are real obtrude themselves by the time masterpieces of English prose. the Nationalist Government has got His brain is undoubtedly the ablest into its stride. Many rude shocks of any at the command of Canton's await the Inhabitants of Hankow. Russlun tutors, Mr. Chen is, of It is notified that sub-calibre gun But for the moment it is sancient-course," a great patriot. Yet he practice will be out by His Majes-ly disturbing to them : Bhd those takes no chances. When I go to ty's Navy on the morning of Fri-youths ordering old officials about see him in his secluded rooni at the day, the 11th February. Firing and dashing up and down the Terminus Hotel I must pass "gun-- will be directed against South Gau foreign and native cities in shin man" at the door-a little Canton- Rock at, the southern entrance to ing limousines.
ese sergeant in khaki whose auto- The Cantonese students who call matic is always poised in his right Mirs Bay.
themselves Government are as hand. different from the great mass of Nor could Mr. Chen's daughter→→ the people they desire to dominate charming though she is be hailed is chalk is from theese. They by the flower of China's population look at China through Western as representative of their country. eyes and their minds are filled with Fresh from an American bllego vague and restless longings burn of for women, Miss Sylvia Chen wears a desire to Westernlso the country the latest Puris fashions with true for their own ends. They cannot Western gratt. She entered Han- even talk with the people of the kow with her fathor, élad in Well- north: interpreters must inter-cut riding breeches, to the great
ene.
discomposure of the local Chiboso
morrow.
A fall from a first-floor window resulted in serious injuries to a little Chinese girl at Wo Hop Street, yesterday. She was nd mitted to the Governthent Civil Hospital.
much interest to outside observers, but it is quite likely that chinging economies will put an effective temporary check on the influx of foreign blood. There might be plenty of, justification for France te reimpost the" vied system for
It is notified that, at the expira a spell, at least until her industrial tion of three fronths, the Alphu Towboat Company, Limited will, life is quickened into a healthier use is sloten to the com: activity. But we should be sorrytrary, be struck off the register and to see anything approaching a the Company will be dissolved. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1927, general or permanent re-imposi tion of that system, because bar riers of that nature prevent free intercourse and the resultant friendships. We have lived down On first sight there is nothing a lot of the wartime-engendered but regret to express at the fact suspicions and we want to go on
reported by official
British forgetting them. The six system Wireless news yesterday that was one of their main props. France, is proposing to reinstitute [Since the above article was
A FRENCH PROBLEM.
1.
The fortieth ordinary annual meeting of shareholders of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., will be held in the office of Messrs. Jurdine, Matheson and Co., on Thursday, February 24, at noon.
*.*
The police have received a re- of Britishers, but that she is report from the Third Officer of the imposing the system otherwise.] .s. Tingaang, to the effect that a ship's lifeboat was stolen over- pight, whilst it was lying secured to the stern of the ship which at
the visa ayatem regarding foreign-written, a message has come to ers desirous of entering that coun-hand stating that France does not try, because it reminds one of the propose to ask for visus the case very undesirable national barriers which were left standing long after the close of the war which had bred their necessity. The possession of a passport is, in most ways, quite desirable for" travellers, but when, those pass
en-
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the time was berthed at No. Buoy
"at Kowloon Doeks."
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and informal methods of address, they arrived at the Terminus as being rather vulgar. Both co-etel. Their motor-cars are the sider the graduate of Moscow's finest in the city. Communist factory as a gloomy All of which is magnificient, but All the puzzled people of Hankow say and narrow-minded person. three pity the students who have it is not Chinese.
It might not be so bad if they dignitaries,
Mr. Woo, the mild, "spectacled were one homogeneous type. Some The Trouble Makers.
are aggressive young mun, full of young secretary to Minister Chen, Americut slang, who talk breezily is another finished product of It is a hopeful sign of the times
of putting pep" tilto the worn-out European tutors and tallers. And that members of the British
Commander F. N. Miles, Mr. W. Institutions of Chirin, Others are there are many like him, equipped ports have to be visaed by the re- Cabinet are beginning to realise G. Goggin and Capt. A. J. Holland of a méré restrained type and bear with tags of speech which divide the Imprint of an English univer them into two classes the "Chee- presentatives of every country to that much of the present trouble. having resigned their positions as
in China is being caused by So-Commissioners in the Surining sity. Still others are as heavily rics" and "See-you-laters."
They are a thousand miler re- be visited and when the granting viet Russin, whose leaders
are Pirney Enquiry, H.B. the Governor marked by their intensive training of visas is made conditional upon behind the scenes. We have often has appointed Lieut.-Comdr. in Moscow's college for Asiatic moved from Chinese ways of living. is a At Kuling, for one night, they a Chinese hotel.. No the applicant's ability to fulfill said, and we see every reason for P. Jones, D.S.C., Mr. T. G. Weall propagandists. Then there
fourth type, Westernised in China stayed at adhering to the view, that Moscow and Capt. A. W. Davison, E.N.R., 19 the methods of the mission more. Next morning, with one ac- certain requirements;" there
is the real centre of the present in their places.
card, they moved down to the best ters into the arrangement a very agitations in China. The Bol-
schools. objectionable feature. "Ordinarily sheviks simply cannot keep free
They do not blend well. The European hotel. ·.
Hankow was warned in advance American-educated student. .con- there is no reason for all this from interfering in the affairs of Singapore to take up the matter of siders his colleague from Cambridge to provide them of its best. Steam
other countries, despite the fact entertaining →troops passing "shrofing up" of forlegners who that they themselves are always through en toute for Chining "too slow.". The latter is inclined heat, brass hedsteads, and a private to look down on the product of the bath, were some of the little essen- come and go through the various imputing such action to other meeting has been held to make countries of the world-men and nations. Recently we encountered preliminary arrangements and to United States, with his nasal accent tials required by the officials when
an example of how far Russin arrange for the collection of sub. women elther on business or ploa
koes afield in her policy of inter-scriptions. It is hoped that liberal sure bent. And it was only after ference, M. Litivinoff, the Feo-public support will be given. in great deal of fuss that the vina pie's Commissary for Foreign
Tenders are invited for a new Affairs in Moscow, delivered him- system for passports was eventu self of some stern criticisms of bridge at Taipo and diversion to re- lly dropped. Now that France the United States polley towards place the bridge washed away in proposes to reinstitute it "tempor-Mexico, saying that it was based 1925. The work consists of the (an "Imperialism" and on a deter-construction of rubble mounds, arily," one is naturally very anmination to intervene.in the affairs pitched slopes and approach em- xlous to know
if such a step la of that country. Mr. Kellogg's re-bankments for a reinforced con- Justified., France claims that, on cent speech on the Mexican pro-crete beam and alab bridge sup account of her large unemployed tilem was cited by this Russian ported on long-pile plers and any leader as a specious attempt to other necessary contingent works. population, she has no more room justify the policy of intervention. at the moment for those who would All such criticisms as these have The following additional regula-Governor-in-Connell ynder Section. Copenhagen like to settle down and find work very famlilar ring. We have tion has been made under the wirez of the Emergency Regulations Hels
heard similar language used by the less Telegraph Ordinance:-The Ordinance, 1922, under the head Lisbon in the country, and she proposes Russians and their Chinese Na- licensee of a ship station licence in "Newspapers, etc." have been Rio refusing entry into France to all tionalist followers in regard to shall forthwith deliver up the amended by the addition of the Bombay
China. The licence to the Colonial Secretary following regulation:
Hongkong foreigners who cannot proyeBritain's policy in
New York means or who are not merely on fact is, of course, that the Soviet if the licence has been cancelled;"
cares nothing either for the web if the licence has expired by effe for the suppression of any news Milan
"Upon the making, of any order Geneva short visits. It so happens that, fare of Mexicane or Chinese. As xion of time: if the licensee has paper the Captain Superintendent
Stockholm since the war, there has been a Mr. Amery has so well put it in ceased to be owner of the ship; if of Police shall seize and detain all Oslo tremendous influx of foreigners-referring to Russian influence in the nationality of the ship has been the machinery, type, appliances,
China, the Soviet is principally changed; or if the port of registry paper, printing materiala, writing Athens well over one million, ús revealed concerned with world revolution of the ship has been changed. by the last French census.. There and in particular with a desire to is not the slightest doubt that the destroy the British Empire. Haw main attraction has been the ever, the world is gradually com- ing to view the Bolshevik Icaders cheapness of living, plus, of in their right light, and the time course, the charming attraction may not be far distant when sote- of the country itself. A fair pro-thing is done to make Russin well
aware of the fact.
portion of that new million dre men and womch in receipt of small Incomes, to whom the "cheapncia
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Ing figure in musical and amateur him of the property, effects and net proceeds of sale in the first of living is a very vital considera is to be held at St. Andrew's dramatic circles, and in the social, things seized, and in default of place in or towards satisfaction of tion. Many of them would doubt- Church, Kowloon, on Sunday, at life of Singapore generally, Mra. payment of such expenses, or any such expenses, in the next place less undertake "light work." And which the processional hymn No Owen la particularly remembered part thereof, within one month in payment of any rent in respect
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