THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NEEDLESS WORRY.
MUDFORD MEDLEY.
CANDIDATES AMONGST THE
POLICE COURT INCIDENT.
One of those little problems which, not occassionally crop up In the local Courts occurred this
ELECTORATE.
"HANOI" PIRACY.
ANOTHER PROVISIONAL
REMAND.
Stating that the ship would not
morning, when a solicitor, who had WHAT IS BLUE RIBBON FOR? return until Sunday, and then t
received tardy instructions to do- fond a man involved in an oplum- traßcking case, proceeded to the Central Police Court, only to be informed, on his arrival, that the
case had been disposed of at an earlier hour, and that his particu- lar ellent was not even charged.
Two Chinese were charged with being in possession of $120 worth of prepared Macao oplum, which was traced by the police from the very moment that it left the steamer Chuenchow. The younger of the two defendants was arrest- ed at Sai Woo Street by Revenue Officers, and, pleading that he was only a carrier, he took the officers to the steamer, where the second defendant was pointed out as be ing the actual smuggler. This latter, on being arrested, pointed
(By Our Political Corresponden!.)
would only make a one-day stay in port before commencing another round-trip--a progress which wil "It's the little things that count" was the gem of a little soap-box involve a further delay of nine oratory by the Socialist candidate, days-Chief Detective Inspector T. Fred Monn, whose wife permitted Murphy to-day naked for another." him to return with the pram and Glaxo babies shortly after four provisional adjournment of the o'clock in the afternoon. Other case in which he is proceeding wise Mudford-on-Sea was com-
against a Chinese on charges arising from the recent piracy of paratively quiet yesterday, the
the French coaster Hanol.
parties concentrating on personal canvassing.
I listened to one of Munn's
soapy perorations for some little time and after putting two and two together I found curiously anough that they were the same; times through which the workers e talked longthily of the hard
the
before Mr. R. E. Lindsell,
When the case again came up officer stated that the local police," moreover, did not wish to detain the ship for these proceedings, and would probably be availed of for the next stay of the Hanoi in port
the only thing Fred Munn has to this application for extradition of (and I can show the mark) that mentary documents in regard to show after graduating from ththe accused to French Indo-China, Both of the arrested men made a college of hard knocks is a pair to be tried by the Courts in that frank admission of their connec-of cauliflower cars. tion with the case,and this was
country, although they had not pointed out by the Magistrate to
yet received the papers showing Mr. J. M. dos Remedios when, half-
on what lines this possible rendi- tion would be effected.
out a third party as being the were passing, but it struck me the hearing. They had supple-
actual owner of the dope, but this third man was not charged.
BAD LUCK.
nn-hour after the cake had been his campaign in his own select Comrade Joe Long was pursuing closed, and the defendants goreles. Something attracted me tenged, Mr. Remedios appeared in in that direction and I heard hin the Court to say that he had in at the concluding stages of a few. structions to appear for the de-ittle pleasantries regarding the fence..
upper classes. A gentleman sport- ing the binck and yellow rose to a point of order, but there was no more ginger ale in the house, and the meeting was forthwith adjourned.
Mr. Lindsel) said that he had sentenced the boy to eight strokes of the rattan, and the men to six months hard labour, with the altermitive of a fine of $1,000, on receiving a frank admission from both defendants.
Mr. Remedios-12 your Worship will allow me to take a note of
the evidence.
can be
Intelligence has broken out in the most unexpected places in the .course of this election, for
His Worship granted the police application for another provisional remand.
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with the Doctor. The sermon hal been a general eulogy of Luther, Zwingli and Calvin and the great things they had done for Chris- tianity in Europe and Britain in particular. When asked why, no reference was ever made to the work of the pioneer missionaries in China medicals and others, and the benefits they had conferred on
instance, when Mr. Sewell, the lish and Chinese) appears in in the Central China Prest of Han-made: "We Chinese cannot admit In the following article printed China, the startling reply was Progressive candidate, was wend-to-day's Tai Kwong Pan:- His Worship-No evidence was
ing his way round. The working "With reference to the publica-esting sidelights on the
ków, our renders can gather inter- that we have received any, bene- taken, as both pleaded guilty. All lass districts yesterday, a small tion in our that appears on the front sheet ised that the blue rosette he wore murder of infants at Foochow by and pertinent to the present issue:
recent fits from foreigners." Pressed for child he chose to nurse imagin- January.
paper on the 27th article by Mr. Soothill in the London reasons this young "thoughtful that both pleaded guilty and were
1927. concerning the Sunday Times. It is both timely Chinese" would only say: It is sentenced, as stated..
was placed
there for chewing the Roman Catholic Church and
extremely difficult for us to ac- Mr. Remedios:--Will your Wor-purposes.
the Nuns of the Convent (Yan stood to mean something in the
Gratitude, is generally under-knowledge an obligation." ahip let me see my clients?
MODERATES RUNNING STRONGLY.
Chee Tong) the same was publish way of kindly feelings awakened His Worship:-They
PRIDE OF RACE. ed without any investigation into because of favours received. brought back and questioned.
There was no room for argument the truth of the contents of the cynie, on the other hand, is rather sion that it must be pride of face The Doctor came to the conclu- Has that boy gone into gaol?
when I ran into Mr. Keates, the letter received by us. The repo. inclined to view The Court Sergeant: He has fouerate, later in the day, as published is utterly false and anticipation of favours to come. men courtesy. He could think of it as a lively which stood in the way of com- gone into gaol, your Worship.,
few Socialist enthusiasts had untrue and without a vestige of Neither of these definitions, how-no other explanation. And it is Mr. Remedios: Will your Wor- caught him in a revolving door, and foundation in truth or in fact and ever, would seem to fit the orient-probably the case. ship then allow me to at least see until the village constable came we beg to express our profound al state of mind connected with the is some feeling of gratitude for Unless there the, charge?
to the rescue, it is recorded regret to the priests of the Cath-Recepting of help offered, at least kindness received, a kindness is The Court Sergeant: The doc-that if the distance he ran were lic Church and the Nuns of the in so far as the land of our sojourn resented, tor has got the front sheet in placed foot on foot he would still Convent (Yan Chee Tong) for the is concerned. Kaul..
be running. Over a cup of Bovril, aspersion cast upon them which
Granted that good works may After a consultation with his however, he told me that such publication might cause to
have been attempted from mis- rlerk, Mr. Remedios said it was Gushing Gerty, the Girl with the them and unreservedly withdraw
In the telegram which we pub- taken motives, and good work done possible that the
was Gamp, had already, by her natural all such imputations and state-Soothill's article in the Sunday remains that for reasons possibly | lished giving a resume of Mr.in a misdirected manner, the fact asked to defend was a third man charm and grace, swayed the monts concerning their treatment Times, he enumerates some of the unknown to the majority of for- implicated in the case.
menfolk of Mudford to a Moderate of the infants committed to their His Worship: may be the view, and he was confident of the Convent (Yan Chee Tang) desert-points as to the assistance given to eigners everything that has been third man. He is discharged result of the ballot to-morrow. ed by their parents. It is general-
China by her intercourse with done in the way of famine relief, without a stain on his character. He introduced me to Gushing Garly accepted that their motives a foreign merchants, medicals, and plagae prevention, medical help in ty later last night, and I am in full governed by the highest idea's anlucatiorists, and, after instancing time of epidemics, saving of life accord with the menfolk of Mud their works are most charitable in particular help given in famine in the general routine of hospital ford. She has been making a big and beneficial to the poor and relief and medical work, Mr. Soot-work, education of the young, and splash in this seaside resort, and needy of all denominations irrespec-
hill concludes:" her little simper has achieved as tive of creed," many votes as the most logical con- clusions which the parties have
man he
mean he was not charged at ali, but was merely brought into the case through being pointed out by the second defendant, as being the owner of the opium.
Mr. Itemedios consulted his note, and then replied that this third man was his client.
His Worship:--Well, he is gone Bow. He is not here and we don't want him at all,
Mr. Remedios-In that case, I shall not trouble your Worship further.
NEW NATIONALIST MINISTER.
POST FOR DESCENDENT OF CONFUCIUS.
office and organize the Ministry.
been able to drive home to the elec-themselves provide the bits of tors.
rope, etc., used for mooring?
SAY NOT 50.
At
didn't like the "look he gave me, so I asked him my next question, i saw Mr. McArthur slipping the mention of that word he seem- out of a music shop and he was
concerning the Pump Room.
away before I could catch him, led to increase in size, his face
re-
Bah!! The prerogative
HELP GIVEN.
by no means least, stimulus to and 'One blushes to have to write development of business-these these things about the British each and all seem to be charged to contribution to China's well-be-the debit of the account which ing, for they ought to have been Young China is keeping with the written by a Chinese and not an foreign nations. And so it comes Englishman. Happily there is to pass that, with the "good cvil a large number of thoughtful spoken of" and the mistakes over- Chinese who would gladly concur emphasised, there is a long list of with all I have said."
debits and not a single credit allowed in the account.
TOO LITTLE THINKING.
In the ordinary course of things
I
been
SUN FO'S INGRATITUDE, understand he was having his colour, (he is a carpenter by trade)
darkened to a ripe mahogany the thoughful Chinese" seem to But on this particular subject Victrola needles sharpened, but too much credence should not be and he replied, "Pump Roombe very few in number, and even placed in the report.
of the where some such manifestation gratitude is not looked for by one In an interview with Mr. Idie Rich!" Ilere he spat on his should, in the nature of things, be who is An altruistic Idealist. Walker, I Was told that the hand and grasped the axe more forthcoming, it is not found. The Common honesty of friendly re- Moderates proposed to get down firmly entrenched myself be- British doctor saved the life of Sun ciprocation is all that can be ex- to the issues very aeriously before hind his bench, licked my pencil, Yat-sen in Hongkong: again, inpected. To the honour of the the meeting of rate-payers at and waited. "What we want London, it was the same; Sun Yat-'common people" be it said this 9 p.m. to-night when all candidates. better housing for the workers, sen owed his life at least twine over is very frequently found amongst It is learned from a certain rell will have, an opportunity of who have made Mudford what to British kind offices and that was them; time and again they have able source, says the Canton, addressing the gathering. I fail is fo-day!" I agreed, being dis-ot anything like the full extent of shown their appreciation of kind- Gazette, that Dr. H. H. Kung has ed to Bee exactly how the greet. "We want public wash his obligation-but 'Sun Fo. bis nesses done to them and for them, been appointed Minister of Indus- Moderates could be more serious houses, so that our womenfolk can son, is one of the most extreme and when occasion has presented try and Commerce and concurrent about the issues, unless possibly wash in comfort. It is a calumny anti-British members of the Canton itself they have returned the ly Commissioner of Finance of on the theory that they couldn't to say that the worker never wash. Party.
favour in kind. It is the "thought- Kwangtung Province by the Na-possibly be more comical.
They do, often. Clothes, I mean."
Filial piety, did it exist in China ful Chinese" who feels unable to tionalist Government. It is also Comrade Bolas wishes to
he hastened to add.
as of yore, should at least temper the rise to the occasion." reported that he will soon assume turn thanks to all those people "Our motto is Progress. with flood of innuendo and animadver- To our way of viewing the mat- who enquired after his Lost Chord Economy, salted with Common ston. But all past henefits are ter this term is a misnomer. There Dr. Kung is a direct descendant (Vocal) and wishes to say that Sense. We want to improve the forgotten y Sun Fo and the thou has been too little thinking on the of Confucius, China's greatest two-way communication has now lot of the workers, and to give rands who are of like mind. Indeed matter. Things have not sage. He returned from a trip to been re-established! (No flowers), cach man a fair and equal chance it is doubtful if they are regarded thought out to an issue. It in the United States recently, where "We have Ա policy." Strange.
as bonefts at all. And this is the the man who should be able to to make good in life. We have un he was conferred the honorary de- though it may scem, it was a example of one of our number who point we would have cleared up. think but who does not think who gree of LL.D. by Oberlin College. Socialist man who said that, and has made good. It is the doctor The late Dr. Devenport, who gave is responsible for the chaotic Dr. Kung has held many important determined to probe this dark whom we propose to offer the vacant a long life of efficient medical ser-conditions we find in China to positions such as Assistant secret still further, I interview post of M.O.H. By sheer grit and vice to the Chinese in Chungking. day. Let us have thought by Director-General of the Sino-ed Comrade Albert Dand with the determination has she worked Wuchung und Shanghai, in a con- all means; but let it be honest, Ruasian Negotiations, Higher idea of finding out where he stood, herself up to her present standard versation with the writer just be considered thought, will all fac- Adviser to the Northwestern | (Not what he stood!)
of scholarship, and we want her fore his death, referred to this tors taken into consideration. If Army, High Adviser in Diplomatic "We don't want an elaborate for Mudford.” Comrade Dand, question and, expressed his great there is some really hard thinking' Affairs to the Nationaliet Govern- pier," he said, "we want one that who is self-educated, spoke excel-sorrow at the way in which the done it will be found that the ment, and so forth,,
is of utility, as the majority of the lent English, the pronunciation of Chinese seemed to be without this enemies of China are those who Dr. Kung's appointment, as people of the town who will use which was marred somewhat by trait of character which we call have made lavish promises and Minister of Industry and Com-it will be working-fishers, like the quid of tobacco he was chow-gratitude. He gave an instancar done little to merit the encomiums, merce by the Nationalist Govern- Comrade Munn. What we woulding.
showered upon them; while the mont, was through the strong ro- profer is. to have an improved "Your message to the Electors?" A member of the Young China friends of China are those who, commendation of Gen. Chang Kai-jetty, complete with mooring bitts I asked. "Tell them to stand party, who had been educated in while not hesitating to criticise shek. Dr. Kung is from a pro- and all that is needed for tying up firm und voto for Munn and Long England at mission exponse, and when she seems to be going astray, minent banker's family in Shansi ships." I asked him if it was to-morrow, and a
better
and been preaching In. the Shanghai are there all the time to back her in and beads many, Industrial and necessary for the town to provide brighter Mudford. We count on church near the Shantung Rost any honest effort to set hor house commercial enterprises.
mooring bitts, couldn't the sailors You!".
Hospital, and was walking home in order.
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