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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY
16,
1927.
DAY BY DAY.
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reading of another instance at
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CHEUNG CHÁU NOTES,
The Very Idea!
(By our Special Observer.)
The burial service at the funeral Much activity is noticed at of a well-known member of the con- owing to the invasion of week-end visitors, birds and caterpillars, all the church being laid aside by ill- nssistant minister; the parson of
kill firo without it appears that in connection with Messrs. Butterfeld and Swire, Cheung Chau these days, mainly gregation was taken by the young
damage to the engine, woodwork
had
a foreign-managed hospital there, or upholstery. a Nurses' Training School Wator spreads a long been in existence, the girl petrol fire; sand is students in which were perfectly inefficient and will
satisfied until, under the urge of put the engine out of action.
radical influences, they submitted "PYRENE" Ex- tinguisher is small in size, light in weight and easy to handle.
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COMMON SENSE IS THE RÉES UPON of which play havoc with local ness.
AI- WHICH MOST IDEALS FOUNDER-esidents' vegetable gardens.
As is usual, the congregation · though outward appearances are Dorothy Senior,
were asked to pass up and vlow the deceptive, many of the houses are remains of the deceased, if they de sccupied, the inmates being of an sired, but the young minister al- carly-retiring dieposition. Some tered the mode of invitation by of the more worldly show lights, saying "Tho congregation will however, and the night air
now please pass round the bier.” Is runt with the music of
And on the faces of many of the Yesterday's health return shows gramaphones, the demented par- en folks chaste resignation gave
rot, homeless doga and two Chinese cases of small-nox,
the place to mild expcetation, resident's milch one British case of typhoid andnowly-arrived one Chinese occurrence of diph-oat. There are other signs of progress, including short dresses, prants, and an occasional empty gin bottle.
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A six-year-old Chinese boy was killed through being knocked down by a tramear at the Praya East, yesterday. The remains were
aken to the Mortuary,
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"If you'll lie down with baby,"
Mother said, "It will not
peep."
So father did, and baby simp-
1y"
Cried ita dad to sleep.
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ultimatum containing over twenty absurd demands, which they said would have to be com plied with in twenty-four hours, The whole scheme, it appears, was engineered by labour extremists in theria. order to annoy the hospital "ty- | them shut thorities and make down, so that the Kuomintang du-
So far, the special constabulary have not been "mustored for could confiseats the place. thorities
practice, although one must admit What has happened at Yoshow and
that they might be mustered mit- How the Great Seal of England, at Changsha is quite in line with
excellent effect. Nobody has got the supreme symbol of Govern- The recent notication regarding the wind up, although one inhabi- rental authority, was once buried what has occurred in Canton dur-
quarantine restrictions imposed
tant was heard doing his best within a flower bed by a Lord Chancel- ing recent years. Hospitals and against arrivals from Vladivostock
a cornet. The social season is not lor, who afterwards forgot where similar institutions which have in on account of plague should have yet in full swing, but it is comfort-he had put it, is related in "His- reality been a godsend to multi-read "on account of small-pox."
ing to know that the lost weighing torical Notes on the Use of the machine has been found, and that Great Seal of England," by Sir H. tudes of Chinese have had to close
Of the eleven" arrivals, ir. har- this yne a swiming costumes are C. Maxwell-Lyte, which has just their doors, wholly and solely by bour during the last twenty-four already being made by some of been published by the Stationery
The hours up to nine o'clock this morn the ladies from the interior, reason of labour tyranny.
ing, two were British. fact that it is the Chinese people departures bumbered seven, the is devoted to this work.
British Much thought, labour and material who suffer when these things hap- total being sixteen. Ben is, seemingly, nothing to the agitatora. They care for noth-
The Wedding of Mr. Albert Ed-ing so long as they can attain ward Guest and Miss Edith May their own ends and indulge in
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Office.
The incident occurred in 1812, when a fire broke out at the country" scat of Lord Eldon, then Lord
Cheung Chau is keeping up with Chancellor. "Hia first anxiety was Madame de Sousa Barbosa, wife, the times, and Wireleas masts are for the Great Seal, and he hurried- of H. E. the Governor of Macno, springing up like mushrooms ally buried it in one of the flower- is to perform the opening ceremony over the place of one recently-beds in the garden. In his con of the new Macno Racecourse on returned résident.
fusion, however, he took no note Saturday next. There are to be
Fincher will take place at St. their foolish and short-sighted Race Meetings on Saturday and several houses, and at least one hold had to go 'probing and dig-
Peter's Church, on ist. March, at 2.30 p.m. No invitations are being issued, but all friends will be wel- come at the Church and also at the reception to be held at No.
anti-foreignism. The blame for much of this, if not all, must lie at the door of the Nationalist lead-
Sunday.
A Baguio message says Major
Several people bove taken of the spot, and the whole house- house has been equipped with aging' until the Seal was found." new stove. Another has had the ficd. The Great Seal was
Lord Eldon's anxiety was justi-- verandah swept and the fisi supply styled "the key of the realm," and
2, Leys Buildings, Nathan Road, Grs, who have been the tutors of doseph T. Reyburn, provincial com- has again become normal.
Kowloon.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1927.
"RED" TYRANNY.
months.
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once
mander of constabulary at Bon-
little of importance could former- these labour extremists and who tou, died on the 8th inst, at Camp
Sunday meetings are held in ly be done without it. have encouraged them in their John Hay bospital where he had different
Some of the documents quoted homes, the Inhabi- lawlessness. Red rule in China been ill of tuberculosis for several tants dividing themselves accord-tell, wthout meaning to, a whole ing to their various persuasions.story in a few lines. One of them, means tyranny, not freedom.
of date 1553, is signed, "Jane, the Ginerally speaking, some do not That is a fact which even the Na
Mr. Ko Leong Hoe, Managing require much persuading. The
Queen." Director of The Ho Hong Bank ferry service has not been improv Jane now, but there was tionalists cannot explain away.
u' Queen Ltd. Hongkong," left to-day for ed, although one travels with 1553--for ten days. She was the one in Shanghai by the Empress of Rus- greater nasurance now that the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey. sia to attend the formal opening two-worst months of the year of the Bank's new branch there which has been arranged to take place on the 23rd instant.
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Empire's Raw Materials.
have.passed.
CORRESPONDENCE.
PUBLIC HEALTH v CESSPOOLS.
To the Editor of the Hongkong
Telegraph.]
We do not remember
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A mother complained at Action of the conduct of her boy. The clerk: How old is he? Mother: Thirty-one.
A solicitor at Willesden explain- ed elaborately the situation of cer- tain streets. Alderman Pinkham' (the magistrate), quietly: Yes, I understand. I built them all.
We notice that at a recent meeting at Home of the Royal Society of Arts, Sir Thomas Hul- land gave a most interesting With regard to the posting of address on the all important sub-anti-British placards at Shataukok, The popular conception in Bri-ject of the international interests we learn that detachments of the thin and the United States, and ipin the production of raw materials, King's Own Scottish Borderers in which Great Britain's oppor- have, in accordance with arrange- many other parts of the world as tunities for reaping the advan-ments, been patrolling the main well, is that the so-called Chinese tages of scientific research in ro- street of the village for the past. Nationalism is a great, liberating, gurd to raw materials for industry two days, and that conditions there democratic movement, which were made the subject of most are at present quiet.
interesting comment. Sir Thomas
She was one of those fussy, fidge." rradually but surely sweeping the pointed out that for raw materials country and bringing freedom andependent on the cultivation of to-morrow, according to the report a very illuminative, but I am at been cutting my steaks," she snap- Cooler weather may be expected. Populi Sprema Lex in his article ty people who are never satisfied. "I don't like the way you have prosperity to the people. We who animals and plants the British issued to-day by the Royal Obser- n loss to understand how the cessned, as she ran her gloved finger
Empire was virtually self-contain-atory, which indicates that the pools removed 200 yards, as advec-ver the round of are nearer the centre of things ed, and that no other nation has monsoon will again set in. The
beef. "You know how, utterly false and disuch good opportunities for secur-local forecast up to noon to-morrow dential district, would cease to be
ated by the M.O.H. from the resi- should cut them as I direct." torted that view of the situationing the advantages of research is:Light north-casterly winds, noisome, since the, penetrating madam?" asked the butcher, as he "What kind of a cut do you wish, Perhaps the most striking feature freshening; overcast, same drizzle smells and sickening odours occur sharpened his knife. is. Wherever the Reds have gone. of the address was the statement for mist; cooler."
Sir, Your correspondent "Salus
Georges Carpentier is about to
they have introduced labour tyran that the total output of the biologi-
at the moment of the distribution "Why, you have been giving me ny, made war an institutions which cal group of raw materials in the
of objectionable matter over the high cuts, and there is too much The following vessels are ex- have been of untold benefit to the Empire is far beyond the digestive pected to be in wireless communi- vegetable gardens, which now ex-fat at the top. I want a low cut." capacity of British manufacturers, cation with Hongkong to-day: the Kowloon Tong residents. So
tend almost to the doorsteps of The butcher could stand it no Chinese, exacted war contrihu. and that it was obviously time to Porthos, Mongolia, Hosang, Tango I consulted a friend of mine. This
Tonger. tions from the people, collected secure the removal of those trade Maru, Taikwa Maru, Amagisan is the medico's explanation, which dam, you are not buying a ball . "Low cut! he protested. "Ma- taxes in advance and in many in-tional intercourse, so as to find a taru, Sphinx, Empress of Russia, hope of allaying the fears of the
barriera which impede interna- Maru, Bandoeng Maru, Osaka I venture to make public with the gown. This is beefsteak." stances taken away such slender field for the sale of the substantial Tijbesar, Tiimanoek, Peleus, Pre-residents of the Garden City of rights as have been enjoyed by balance of these British resourcessident Monroe, President McKin-Kowloon Tong:-"The germs of individuals and corporate organi-of raw materials. The position as ley, Suisang and Meriones. sations. The liberty of the sub-ducts is not quite so good, though
typhood and dysentery having to make his first appearance as a pro- regards the supply of mineral pro-
travel 200 yards from their head-fessional actor. He has been cho- The master of a fishing ject has been flaunted, arrests and Sir Thomas thought that the Bri-
boat quartera (the cesspools) before sen to play the leading part in [ Was summoned punishmcats have been made with-tish Empire, was more nearly self- Commdr. G. F. Hole, at the Marine ables, get exhausted and lose their to
bafore Lieut. they are spread over the vegeta new play, entitled "Knock-Out," contained than any other nation, Court this morning, for
be produced at the Theatre out trial of any kind, whilst con-ranking above the United States grapples or other means for lift these attenuated germs to the food
using virulence. The housefly tranafers Edouard VII. in Paris. ditions in the prisons have, been and also above even what Germanying articles from the bed of the and drink which, ingested by the such that it is a wonder that the" was before the war. In animal harbour at the Naval Anchorage residents, act as vaccines and thus The ex-Shah of Persia, is con- inmates have managed to retain and vegetable products the Empire without permission. A large coil prevent the outbreaks of those sidering the suggestion recently, their sanity or even their lives. than it can consume, and in brought to the surface, was pro-ently, the domestic fly, now trans-into business in Paris.
can produce more raw materials of lead wire, which the defendant dread diseases. But, if inadvert, made to him that he should go We feed not go further afield than mineral products it is in a better duced. Defendant was fined $10, formed from the worst enemy to Kwangtung Province, the original position for raw materials than or ten days.
anybody else. That is an extreme-
heme of the Nationalist movement,ly gratifying position and one of
ments.
EXCHANGE RATES.
for confirmation" of those state- which we should take the fullest And besides all this, much possible advantage. To find a of the territory in the hands of field for the sale of our surplus 'raw materials must obviously be the Nationalists is infeated with our alm and nothing is more likely Paris bandits and brigands, for whose to supply that field than a generalBrussels suppression no serious effort what-stimulus of the world's trade. Amsterdam
The removal of tariff and other Berlin ever is made. So much for fact barriers
becomes oven more Copenhagen and fiction.
Vienna obviously desirable,
Helsingfors Lisbon
Ric Bombay
At the moment, however, we in- tond dealing with only one aspect of conditions which have arisen in Charged with cutting bamboos Hongkong from the hillido and with offoring New York various parts of China since the bribe to tho constablo" when Geneva Nationalists have come into con-arrested, a Chinese woman at the Milan trol-namely, the labour agitations guilty. She said she bought the l
Polico Court yesterday pleaded not Stock
Stockholm Oslo which have resulted in the closing hamboos from a
Pragzo man named Ali Model verified the woman's Athens down of so many hospitals, and Nam, who
statement, but admitted that he had ove other institutions of a like charac- himself cut them from Deep Water Shanghai
Bucros Aires
poor Yesterday, we gave some Bay, because he was
and Yokohama having a bad foot, was unable to Silver (spot). detalls of how the Yale-in-Chins work The womann was find 810 for Silver (forward). Hospital at Changsha has had to offering the bribe.
ter.
London, Feb. 15.
.123.65 .34.88 2.12
.20.47
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Since he was dethroned and re-
a good Samaritan, instead of these placed by Riza Khan last year the prophylactic doses, administers a ex-shah has been living here quiet- lethal (toxic) dose-one has ally, and has been unable to fre- ways the milk or water supplies toquent the dancing establishments blame Yours, etc.,
and expensive restaurants where he was once a known and honour- ed pätron.
PRO-HYGIENE. Hongkong, Feb. 16th, 1927.
Their Lordships the Chinese Bishops who were called by His 18.20 Holiness the Pope for consecration 34.42% at Rome, are now on their return
.192% to China' by the M. M. Porthos. 2.17/32
1/6.8/04 .2/0 1.86.1/16
Indeed, the finances of the ex- shat were in such a low state that
he had to part with many of his jewels. Therefore the suggestion that he should become a Parisian perfumer was considered carefully in all its nspecte.
More than eight centuries old, If the scheme materialises the circular relief in the rare green ex-shah will be found in a wonder- porphyry quarried in Sparta has fully fitted shop in Paris, which 20.22 just been acquired by the Victoria will specialise in the cale of Ori- .112% and Albert Museum, South Ken-ental perfumes.
18.18 aington. Representing the Virgin
18.00
.104
in prayer, it is almost the only
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Byzantine carving in any material Fussy old gentleman-"Now, my 28.8412
3744 that can be dated with certainty. boy, who I the responsible man fr. 47.1/10 Round the edge is an inscription this firm? I want to see him."
2/04 in Greck invoking the help of the Omco boy I don't know who 09/10 Mother of God for Nicephorus the responsible party is, but I am 2014 Botaniates, Emperor of Constan- the one who always gets the
blame." British Wireless. tinople-A-D-1078-1081.-
26.7/16
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