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THURSDAY, MARCH 3: 19:7,
THE TROUBLE- BREEDERS.
The secession of Dr. Haden Guest from, the Labour Party, be-. cause of his disagreement with the mischievous activities of the more extreme elements therein on the China question, is a refreshing item of news. It shows that there are men of liberal and progressive ideas who are thoroughly at one with the Government in its policy and who wish to be in no way associated with the ultra-Social-
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1927.
DAY BY DAY,
tho Canton Gazette that Colonel L'Estrange Malone is "rendering excellent service to Chin an speaker up and down the country"s IRRETRIEVABLY LOST IF SHE HAS This gentleman, as has recently NO RESERVES Countess Vera da been explained; has already done Talleyrand,
A WOMAN IS LIKE AN ARMY; SHE
a term of imprisonment för an
Amongst the passengers who ar aet likely to lead to sedition: Butrived here by the sis. President he is only ate of many other Lincoln were. Mr. Eric Moller and trouble-breeders who, with no Mr. S. J. Hicką, first-hand knowledge of the min tefs on which they so glly talk, are doing an immense amount of harm in England just now. They would, we venture to think, adopt a very different attitude if they had to face such howling mobs as British residents in Kiaklarig and Hankow have had to do in relatively recent times.
The Royal Observatory's wen- ther forecast up till noon to-morrow ja: "North: winds, moderate; overcast, some drizzle or mist"
AT THE RACES,
PICKPOCKETS SENTENCED
THIS MORNING,
At the Races yesterday pick pockets and other members of the light-fingered gathered to reap a harvest, but at least three of them were caught by the plain-clothes men and watchmen posted on spe-
The Very Idea!
A young lawyer, pleading, his first case, had been "retained by a farmer to prosecute a railway company for killing 24 hogs.
Ho wanted to impress the jury with the magnitudo of the injury. Twenty-four: twice the number in "Twenty-four hoga, gentlemen.
the jury-box"
The wedding bells were ring-
Ing loud,
'Mid' situation tense. The bride, however, wasn't
thrilled.
Yesterday's health return showacial duty by the polico authorities. three Chinese cases of small-pox
Whon Chan Ho tried to steal an and two cases of typhoid (one almost worthless cigarette holder. British and one Chinese,
from the pocket of a Chinese spcc- tator, there was a watchman near at hand to catch him in the net.
Charged bafore Mr. R. E. Lind- It was her Afth offense. Rell, at the Central Police Court this morning, the arrested man is- Guy's Hospital was built to serted that the article was commemorate the Gunpowder Plot "planted" on him, and he was in--at least, so thought a schoolboy formed by His Worship that "it is whose mistake is included in a let
any."
month's "University Correspon-
The second number of The Red Triangle, the Kowloon YM.C.A.
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It is bad enough when these magazine, has dude ita appearance. a fine excuse, but does not help you of. "howlers" published in this
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The watchman deposed that he dent," shadowed" the man for a quarter
It is reported that Mr. J. H. of an hour, being made suspicious
by his previous actions.. Nihill has been offered legal position in Mesopotamia and that his position as acting Puisne Judge in Hongkong will be taken by Mr. Philip Jäcks.
The third organ recital in con- | nection with the re-opening of the organ in St. John's Cathedral, will be given by Mr. Frederick Mason, L.T.C.L... to-morrow. A.R.CO
The charge was found proved, and a sentence of four weeks' hard labour was inflicted.
Birch for Two Men.
Two men, who looked as if they might be father and son, were also caught at the Racca in the act of stealing .
'
It was an excellent piece of journalism for the Daily Telegraph to print the obituary notice of the
Charlotte Empress
originally written by Augustus Sala in 1894. But the passing of a generation means something. We should not How write "our beloved Princess Charlotte" of a lady; we would we mean impassive; and we da not say "impassible face" when
not feul the expected thrill of horror at the Empross's plight when she "nearly fainted" on finding she would have to drive to her hotel in a cab.
It is full of interesting and chatty agitators engage in their mis-matter and includes some interest- chievous propaganda la 'England, ing sketches.", where, happily, they are in a hope. leas minority. But when they come East, as the notorious Mr. Tom Mann has done, and give the Chinese people a wholly false impression of British sentiment, it is a thousanti times worse. Un-. happily,. the bulk of the people, at Home can have no conception of what Nationalist rule, in China really meals. But if Mr. Tom
The Kowloon Football Club dance Mann is really an apostle of truth
at Lane Crawford's Restaurant the spectators, obviously searching and justice, he can very easily as last night proved a thoroughly ca- for car-picks, hair-pins and other certain for himself how hollow is joyable and well-attended fune-hair-ornaments.
An authority on medical chemis- * In due course,try sends me a note on Musso- the Nationalist talk of freedomation. The Lyric Orchestra pro- the elder of the two reached out lini's remark. "Macaroni is a
for a child's wrist bangle, which he great and liberty. The merest analysisvided excellent music.
muscle-builder." "That stole and passed behinil to his mate. macaroni should be a good muscle- of the situation in Canton would
During the twenty-four hours Both men were arrested.
builder," he says, "is chemically give him startling facts which unding at nine o'clock this morning, The defendants disclaimed any impossible, 48 protein matter. should quickly dispel the fancies five Britisk vessels arrived in port knowledge of each other, but his muscle), containing nitrogen, and four departed. Total arrivals Worship remarked that it was curi- under which he appears to be
were 17 and departures 11. The ous that both should huil, from labouring.
total number of vessels in harbour Yaumati. was 67.
The Mining Disaster,
(Friday) at 6.16 p.m.
The master of a coolle boat was fined $5 or five days by Lient. the
It was said in Court this morn ing by the two watchmen respon sible for the arrest, that, the men noved for half-an-hour amongst
Both then were convicted, In the cuse of the first, a prison term of six months, and twenty-strokes of the birch were ordered, and in the was ordered to be detained for for- case of the younger defendant, he
ty-eight hours, and to receive twenty strokes of the birch, also.
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cannot be made from starchy matter Buch ag macaroni- although, of course, Mussolini should know all about muscle!"
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sibility-Lord Reading,
The very soul of life is respon
body. Rev. R. J. Campbell.
This is not the day of the busy-
Religion cannot be learned over the wireless. Dr. Hewlett John-
son.
I write very nice plays indeed. a bit unpleasant, but unfortunately nobody else seems to think so.-Lord Luthom.
We have received from the Co- onial Secretariat a copy of the SHANGHAI SHELLING. They are not Prospectus of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, for the year 1927-28, with which is included the Principal's Report for the year 1925-25.
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It is little short of remarkable | Commander G. F. Hole, at that, in view of the fact that min Marine Court this morning, for ing accidents, in Britain are, recarrying nine passengers"in excess latively speaking, a rare occur of the number allowed by his
nce, there should have been two licence. auch derious happenings on ene day as have been reported as oc- curring on Tuesday. The British mining esidents record of coul hus, within recent years, been very gratifyingly low-much lower than
A DELIBERATE ATTACK?
Mr. Bernhard Baron, the is Experienced in other coal
tobacco millionaire, bought a pair is well
Evidence which has been un- mining countries. It
of silk stockings at Brighton at known that the British regulations
carthed by the Chinese authorities, a mock auction conducted by Mlle. ists in their campaign of dis-governing the manner and method "As from Jan, 27 Captain R. H. T. naval and military, reveals the as- Delysia, the actress, during a bortion and misrepresentation. of mixing are of a stricter and Raikes, D.S.O., who has had two tonishing fact. (says the N. charity entertainment at the Hip- Happily, the really prominent sterner nature than those prevail. years in command of the China Daily News) that the recent happodrome. Mlle. Delysia Hold ing is most other countries, and Submarine Flotilia, was relieved hazard bombardment of the French leaders of the Labour Party are the Government's inspectors are by Captain J. B. Glencress, D.S.O, Concession in Shanghai was a de- twelve pairs of stockings in all men of sufficient sanity to possess ever on the watch to see that those The latter officer was appointed toberate, act of provocation ordered for one hundred guineas, and also
just appreciation of Britain's who follow the hazardous calling the Distinguished Service Order 1 by two Chinese gurboat captains diamond brooch,
Stafford-
from their
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The entertain-
for obtained fifty guineas who were in the pay of the Redment and auction together raised Southern army.
£1,000 for the Brighton and Hove
Jewish Board of Guardians; -
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of mining are fully protected in November, 1917, in recognition of position vis-a-vis China, and any
every way possible. It was as far good work in enemy waters. of the Chinoso Nationalist ex back as January 1918 that the list
Two women riding on a truck It is certain, among other things, tremists who have been hoping for really disastrous coal mine acei-laden with sheot tin, were shaken that the orders issued by the two a serious cleavage of opinion ident took place, this being at
seats by a sudden officers in question never covered
. "Will you have a glass of colliery near Hanley,
whisky, Mr. M'Gregor, or A British political circles on the shire, and by which 160 men lost swerve of the vehicle, yesterday. the shelling of the Arsenal or of
One of them was caught under any other Northern military estab China crisis have long since had their lives. Since that time there the metal as it fell to the ground, lishment, but were to sell the meringue the hostess asked her
#1 has been a general improvement in it made clear to them by M. the supervision, and it says muck and received serious cuts in the French Concession indiscriminately, guest.
for the skill of British mining engineers that they have managed to keep accidents down to so low a figure 113 recently, especially when it is borne in mind that many
Ramsay MacDonald and others that the Government can count on the official support of the Labour Party so long as Britain's policy continues along the lines so fre- quently expounded by Mr. Baldwin
She was removed to Hos-
"No, no," replied the Scot, "ye'ro
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legs.
A clumsy effort was made to prono wrang: I'll tak' the whisky!" vide an excuse for this murderous pital.
attack on the Chinese and foreign The engagement is announced civilian populations. A jufk was
down of the Rev. H. A. Wittenbach, of towed the Church Missionary Society, the Chinese "gunboats and the
stream between
She came into the police station with a photograph in her hand.
"My husband has disappeared," "This is his photo."
of the British workings are old younger son of Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Shanghai bark of the river said she. and in soft and wet districte. We Wittenbach, of Melbourne, to Miss and when it was in line with And she handed Exhibit A to the know that the sympathy, not only H. G. Blanchett, elder daughter of the settlements, brisk rifle fire police inspector. of all at Home, but also of all Brit-the Rev, and Mrs. C. I. Blanchett, was opened on the gunboats from
ishers in this Colony will go out to
Canton.
"I want him found at once," she
added.
.
in tha
and Sir Austen Chamberlain.
Whilst, however, Labour in its
The inspector looked up from official capacity, is taking quite a
the bereaved wives and children of the Church Missionary Society, the junk. The bombardnient which followed was to have been excused. and other relatives of the men sane and reasonable stand on the who have lost their lives in the
as a piece of bad shooting in reply the photograph.
"Why?" he asked. Passengers on the .3. Mace-to this assault. Since the shelling China question, it is a fact that Ebbw Vale and Bilsthorpe distis-donia include Miss Burt, Mr. A. of the French Concession did not
Paris, Jan. 00.-Certain of the there are men of the Left wing, of tors. Not only the shock of the Campbell, Mr. H. W. Crabb, Miss have the desired effect of prompting
news but the anxious and trying Drybargh, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. W. a counter bombardment that could great department stores in Paris the Party who are doing all they hours of waiting while rescue Dorling and two infanta, Mr. S. have been used for propagands pur-have been included in the itinerary can to obstruct the Government parties are making their valiant Hope, Mr. and Mrs. F. Lopez, Mr. poses, the two captains bolted to of the sight-seeing buses so that and at the same time to give every effort below make a grim experience E. Larmour," Mr. and Mrs. J. avoid the inevitable investigation women who are more interested in
that instantly calls upon one's most Lanyon, Mr. and Mra. Mitford and and at the time of writing have not gowns than they are
Pantheon and Notre Dame, can encouragement to agitators insincere sympathy, During the re-child, Mr. W. J. McNally, R.N
yet been found. Mies China. We have seen that again cent prolonged coal strike there was Mrs. North and infant,
Nettleship, Mrs. Poland, Mrs.
The Chinese naval authorities "take in the sights." and again in the absurd criticisms not a little bitterness of feeling in Phyllis Poland, Mr. C. J. Pogsta, naturally got very busy at once in
some quarters against the miners. of the Government's steps for the for their pustinais refusal to talk Mr. R. L. Stewart, Mr. H. Selby, their search for a motive for this Mr. H. Sutton; Mr. O, J. Shannon, amazing performance and are said protection of British subjects in terms terms which meant reduc Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Thorpe, Miss to have overwhelming evidence to Chinh, in the reckless talk of tion of pay and also longer under M. M. Turner.
prove that the two culprits were in! British "aggression" and in what sided against the miners will, by ground hours. Perhaps, those whe
Marble Hall, the palatial rest the Times rightly describes 26 this latest catastrophe, be brought dence of Sir Ellis Kadocrie in the of the Powers into taking drastic Amsterdam dangerous intrigue with one par- to a vivid realisation of the fact Great Western Road, at Shanghai, action which can be advertised as Copenhagen' ticular Chinese faction. Under that mining is a hazardous. calling was opened as u canteen for British Imperialistic aggression, both in Viennu
indeed worthy of the very highest forces last week. At the official China and through the usual Red Helsingfors the encouragement of such
in-remuneration that can be afforded opening, attended by Sir Sidney medium abroad. dividuals, there have sprung into by the industry. For ourselves, Barton, C.MG., and Lady Barton, It is further said that the French Bembay
Hongkong being in England various organi- we feel that wages as high as FDs by Vice-Admiral Sir Iteginald Tyrnuthorities have been much quoted
sible and hours na short as possible whitt, C.M.G., and Col. Command-recently in Kuomintang propa- New York sations whose leaders profess to are only a fair offering to meant Sangster, C.M.G., D.SO., more ganda as boasting that, if the Con- Geneva
Milan be serving the cause of Chinese whose daily avocations take them expressions of the community's ocasion were endangered by pro- Stockholm freedom, but who are in reality hundreds of feet underground to wish to provide for the comfort of ximity to a Chineso. battle, they Stock
perils of which we above-soll the Defence Forces were made. Sir would put an end to hostilities by Pra engaged in a campaign of misin-workers are fortunately strangera Sidney Barton declared the canteen shelling the Arsenal and the Chin Madrid formation, apparently caring 'Uttle.
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Shanghai preciation for the work which Lady way for lurid, mendacious veralona Yokohama Barton and the ladies of the British of any incident which the "accid Bulver (spot) community were doing to provide ental shelling of the Concession Silver (forward)
might have provoked..
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Mr. Panhoo has assumed his new office as Commissioner of talk. As an instance of this, we Public Works of Canton, vice Mr. Telte the statement juat made by Lum Yat-man who has resigned." for the men's comfort.
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