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WEDNESDAY,
that a promise was given to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1925 that very utmost would bo done to effect auch economica as would materially reduce, if not entirely obliterate, the extra cost that of replacement, and that had been so faithfully done as to produce more than was necessary, Surely, the world could not bé given plainer or more convincing proof that Britain is keeping her naval expenditure down to the very minimum required by the essentials of defence.
MARCH 16, 1927,
DAY BY DAY,
Yesterday's health return
ahowa four cases of small-pax, two Chinese and two Malays.
A LITTLE LEARNING IS NOT A DANGEROUS THING TO ONE WHO
· ENTERED LA...
CABIN.
ABOARD SHIP WITHOUT
PERMISSION.
The Very Idea!
'Arry (a successful man, to his better halfy: "And ses to 'Is Lordship, I 803, "II"au are a
At the Marine Court this 'morn-country family, I'm as good as DOES NOT MISTAKE IT FOR A GREAT ing, before Lieut. Comendr. G. F. what you are, and u Bos, "Yus, Elele, an unusual case of bourding you're a branch of the Rodent family, ain't yer? e aes, and I without permission was heard.
let 'im think w?"
DEAL-Blanco White,
There were 18 arrivals in Har- bour yesterday and 23 departures, British figures being four and seven respectively, leaving 68 vessels in port, of which 22 were fruish.
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Tang Fuk, an unemployed coolie of Wanchai,and Man Ming, an unemployed youth of Shanghai Street, were charged with being on board 8.8. Van Buren without the permission of the officer con manding. Both pleaded guilty,
Guard.
Mary Ann: Please, ma'am, tho oil stove has gone out.
Mistress: Well, light it again. Mary Ann Sure and I can't. ma'am. It's gone out through the roof.
The Lot still loved its bottle
Though dye years old.
How sad! But, mother said, "That's
natural,
It takes right after dad.”
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The officer in charge of the case Miss Iris Lepack, living at No. pressed for a serious conviction Hongkong is especially interest-
6. Excelsior Terrace, was attacked
against the first defendant and ed in the construction of the and bitten yesterday by a dog own-produced evidence which showed Singapore Base, and will have beened by the tenant of a house two that he had been seen to enter a xratified to know that there has doors away. She was treated for lady's cabin on board and was sub- the Injury, while the dog was seiz- been much appreciation in Imud and removed to the depot at equently arrested by an Indian"
The statement of the lady occu perial Government circles of the Kennedy Town.
Medical students at the Spanish pant of the cabin, Mrs. H. C. help which this Colony has been
A report from Hankow states that Beary, was as follows:-"At about universities are calling the atten- able to give. The vory handsume the engagement is announced of 3.45 p.m. on March 16, my tion of the Government to the fact contribution of the Malay States Mr. T. V. Boong, Minister of daughter and myself were sleep "that the number of doctors in
Finance of the Nationalist Govorn
ing in our cabin, when I was Spain is so large that the students was also fittingly acknowledged.ment, to Miss Laura Chang, awakened by someone calling constitute a menace to the pro-
Jamos It is interesting to learn that the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Is there anybody in your room?' fession." The simplest remedy looked around and SAW seems to be an inereuse of total cost of the construction of Chaag of Kiukiang. Miss Chang was educated at the Eliza Yates
Chinese lying on the floor be patients. A slight casing of the the Base (apart from the construemorial School of Shanghai. The tween my daughter's bed and my motor-car duties might be tried. tion of the huge floating dock nov marringe will take place this spring.
own. I shouted out and the elec tric light was switched on. An Mr. Rooth, the Lambeth magis- being built) has been reduced.
The following vessels are ex- Indian watchman then came into trate, when asked by a man for from eleven millions sterling to pected to be in wireless communi- the cabin and arrested the Chin- time in which to pay a fine, sug- seven-and-a-half millions-an ac-cation with Hongkong to-day ese. The watchman then asked geated that he should pay some- Metzinger, Sinklang, if anything had been stelen and thing on account. A Bolicitor: nouncement which ought to do General
Empress of Canada. Mongolia, later investigation showed that do not think he has it, sir. He much to offset the ery put up by Kumsang, Porthos, Khyber, Soothe contents of a purse had been came to see me first. the Labour Party that the country chow, Chinhua, Tjitarcem, City of abstracted, comprising two $1
Acton magistrate to boy: some loose Was wasting many millions of Calcutta. Honghwa, Klungchow, American notes and
Boy: Tilkandi, Durban Maru, Amazon silver. A suitcase appeared to What is your occupation? money in
I ride a bika: @totally unnecessary Maru, Amur Maru, Penang Maru, have been tampered with, and away, Mr: Bridgeman's very plain Aki Maru and Bankura.
several articles of wearing ap- parol, which had been placed on top on the previous night, had been strewn about the room."
Hongkong Telegraph.Invitation to Australia to help in
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 3927.
BRITAIN'S NAVY.
In "spite of the fact that the rust of building new tonnage has gone up enormously in recent rears, Britain is still able to show continuous reduction in the cost
the
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Nows of the death of Chief Petty bearing the burden will doubtless Omeer A. A. Stephens of H. M. S. evoke a response when the oppor- Carlisle has been, received from tunity offers, especially in view of Shanghai, C. P. O. Stephens was 24 years of age and very popular fact that Australia's pro-amongst his messmates and nouncement of vital interest in friends. An earnest Theosophist, he was a member of the Hongkong the projcet has, so far, not been Lodge of the Theosophical Society Accompanied by a monetary offer and well known at the European ing. The Labour Party in the YM. C. A. Kowicon. He leaves a mother, Mrs. C. A. Stephens, of House got off its usual platitudes Delaware Lodge, York Road, about the desirability of a navalWigmore, Kent.. holiday, but we think that all thoughtful Britishers will agree that the Government is only
for the efficient maintenance of the Empire's main arm of defence.
More Distortion."
The Nationalist propagandists
re still pouring out a regular
of
In
MATSHED ROBBERY.
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TWO CHINESE CHARGED.
formally charging the defendants with acts of robbery, asked for a week's remand, for further inves- tigations.
The application was granted..
CRUELTY CHARGE.
CHINESE WOMAN
REMANDED.
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Hoxton woman: Down here a wontan is judged by what she wears, but in the other end of London by what she does not.
Hackney wife: Give your "old man his drop of beer, and you can do anything with him.
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His Worship asked whether there were any previous convic- Lions against the Arst accused and a record was produced show ing that he had been sent to guol for unlawful possession. The ac- cused denied that he had been pre-aged man:
Willesden magistrate, to middle- Are you the eldest of viously convicted and the case this family? Man: No, sir, I am was accordingly adjourned for 24the baby but one. hours for verification of finger- prints, the accused remaining in It is really time the law pro-
The second defendant, who was arressed by another Indian Guard when he tried to run away, was sentenced to one month's hard Jabour.
polize custody.
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N
hibited pillion-riding. Judge Crawford (at Romford County. Court). -
The pig, although usually the worst treated animal, is potential- ly the mest profitable-Lord It was later ascertained that Bledisloe. the
the and age.
BOGUS CONSTABLE.
WANTED BOARDING HOUSE COMMISSION.
now
it's not only the barber shops that say "things aren't what they used to be" They also sing it in
Self-made Father: Why don't
For impersonating a constable,rmarble ambassadorial halls! a Chinese was this morning fined $100, or given the alternative of three months' hard labour, by Major C. Wilson.
I
you get out and find a job? When was your age I was working for pound a week in a big shop, and ducted the ease for the prosecu-in ve years I owned the place. tion.
Detective Inspector Murphy con
of her Navy--a really wonderful doing the very minimum necessary achievement in these days of
second defendant was ↓ It had gone on with farming I of should have been sweeping the rising costs. li manus, of course,
Two men were charged, formal-juvenile of only 13 years
case waserossings in London.--Sir Waltor that Britain's naval strength is
v, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the re-opened at noon. He was then Gilbey. being kept down to the absolute
Central Police Court this morning, sentenced to twelve strokes with There is no such cruel respect. with being concerned, with two the cane, which were administered ability in the world as the respect- minimum-haring regard to all
others not in custody, in a rob by an officer of the Water Police. ability of the lower classes-Miss the various governing considera-
Ciran Chi Fat, master, and Wong | Rose Schuster. tiens-and it may just be that, in
hery at a matshed at Wongnei- chong village, Happy Valley.
Kam, mistress, of fishing boats, suppy
pernicious matter
A previous report stated that charged with dredging in the Madame Alexandra Kollantay, the zeal for economy, Britain is through the agency of the Preas
Plenipotentiary and the two men were arrested while Naval Anchorage, pleaded guilty, Minister getting down to a point at which Oilice of the Political Department running up the hillside, above the the results of their efforts being Envoy Extraordinary of the Soviet
of the Revolutionary Army in it will be well-nig impossible to tankow, and in the latest issue matshed, following a bue-and-ery produced in Court and were sever Union to Russia, the first woman reduce further. In the very of its bulletin to hand we notice given by one of the victims. They ally fined $7, with the alternative diplomat in history, says that the important speech delivered by the lengthy article on the alleged were secured by villagers, who of one week's imprisonment with job of international diplomacy essentially is a woman's. This diplomacy business is reduced to First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr.nomic results of the recent turned them over to the Wanchai hard labour.
police. Canton boycott against Hongkong. Detective Sergeant Rozeskwy, in
very simple needs, according to W. C. Bridgeman) it was pointed In the course of this diatribe, it
this first woman in the field. It out that the estimated expenditure is stated that longkong "has been
is merely a matter of understand- like a leech on the economie body
ing. or £58,000,000 would (on the basis of South China and has done much
Women were born with understanding: Ergo-So of pre-war prless) be worth only to prevent the development of the about £4,000,000, but that the mainland while Hongkong itself netaal estimates for 1914, before has grown from year to year in woulth and influence." A more the war were £51,500,000. This absurd distortion of the facts shows that not only has Britain could scarcely he imagined.
another place, Hongkong is refer shed all her extra war-time
red to as "a parasitical usurer «I strength but that she has cut world trade." Indeed, running down her navy to a lower level through the whole article there is an obvious intention to discredit
Ne'er-do-well Son: You can't than existed before the war, In this Colony and to make it appear
Charged with cruelty to a little
It appears that on the 11th inst., do that nowadays. view of the Washington Treaty that the development of Hongkong servant-girl, a Chinese woman was. of 1922 which restricted the has been inspired by a desire to again remanded, formally, on ap- defendant entered the Hing Lee cash registers:
ke away trhile from South China, pearance before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Boarding House and demanded a number and size of capital ships, whereas the meanest intelligence at the Central Magistracy this commission from the Manager for Introducing a certain guest. As it might be thought that a reduc- must grasp the fact that Hong morning...
kong desires nothing but the ful- MrGeo. K. Hall Brutton, who the manager had never seen the tion of Britain's naval expenditure lest expansion of that trade. In represented the defendant, was defendant before, he naturally re- was inevitable, but, owing to the deed, so far from Hongkong pre-informed by his Worship that the fused to give the money to him, special needs of our maritimeventing the development of the girl, who is alleged to have re-particularly as there was a com- at the mission due to another man for In empire, it has been deemed neces- mainland," it has, by the facilitics calved serious injuries
It has offered, very materially een-hands of the woman, was still introducing the guest mentioned. sary to lay down a very definite tributed to the growth of trade hospital, and that it was not ex- programme of new cruiser con- and commerce. No stronger evid pected that she would be in a üt struction. This programine, which ence of the part which Hongkong condition to appear in Court for
has played in this direction could a few days yet, was accepted by the House of be forthcoming than the fact that
Defendant was remanded until the 22nd instant. Commons in 1925, was as follows: whilst the boycott was in opera --1925-20: four 10,000 ton cruisers on, trade in South China im- mensely declined, whilst the sug and four gunboats; 1926-27, two gestion that the existence of this 10,000 cruisers, one 8,000 ton Colony has been a handicap to cruiser, six submarines, two depot China is. easily refuted when it is recalled that coats of imported and repair ships and four motor goods in Canton and Kwangtung Paris launches; 1927-28, one 10,000 ton generally went soaring up duria Brussels gruisers, two 8,000 ton cruisers, the period in which Hongkong was Amsterdam
cut off from communication. Berlin, nine destroyers, six submarines; Free and unfettered intercourse Copenhagen 1928-29, one 10,000 ton cruiser, between Hongkong and Canton is Vienna
Helsingfors two 8,000 ton cruisers, nine des-all to the advantage of both
Lisbon places (Canton quite as much as lo
EXCHANGE RATES.
troyers and six submarines; and Hongkong), and if the boycott Boug
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1929-1930, one 10,000 ton cruiser, taught ono lesson more than an. two 8,000 ton cruisers, one air other, it surely was that Canton New York
could, not hit Hongkong without Goneva craft carrier, nine destroyers, 1 injuring itself in the process. So Milan fleet submarine, five submarines far from accepting the National Stockholm and one net layer. It must best propaganda point of view,westo.
Prag would prefer to recall the words admitted that this is quite
of a former Chinese statesmda Athens moderate programme, having re-that when Britain got Hongkong Buenos Aires card to size and standard of the from China she acquired a barren Shanghal
rock, but she had returned to Yokohama British Fleet, and it is this pro-China, in trade and in the spread Silver (spot) gramme which is still being of enlightened ideas, a mountain Silver (forward) adhored to. Mr. Bridgeman stated of gold.
London, Mar. 16.
.34.01
were
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They have
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Teacher: Now, we all know Do you know about Noah's urk. of any other ark?
Tommy: Yes, miss, the one-the 'erald angels sing.
“THE CIRCLE." Defendant then informed the
BIG ATTRACTION AT THE QUEEN'S. Manager that he was from the for inspection, but even then the An English play, with excellent police and produced a card to him
in Manager would not pay him English settings, now figures While they
talking,
thethe programme at the Queen's broker to whom the money was Theatre. This is the film version due strolled in and the Manager of Somerset Maugham's "The then produced the commission and Circle." It is admirably present- placed it on a table. The deed and holds attention from start fendant lost no time in grabbing to finish. The main theme is how hold of the money and was about a husband's weakness, drives, a to leave the boarding house, but young wife to follow her mother- 124 the broker halled a constable, who in-law's example' and
elope friend of the family, was standing' near by, and had the with a man arrested.
though she is brought back
тиве on the part. The near presence of the cop- by a clever .18.20 34.474
147 stable was explained by the fact of the husband. Apart from the 109 that defendant had previously ac- chief motif of the play, there is 2.17/3 costed the broker in the street and some really excellent comedy, and success of the film 62 there demanded three dollars from much of the 1/01/04 him and the broker had sent him is due to the exceptionally strong Includes Eleanor 1/114 to the Hing Lee Boarding House cast, which .85.13/32
2522 while he fetched a constable and Boardman, Eugenia Bessbrer, Alac Fawcett and Francis, George 22 followed defendant there. 100% 18.14 The defendant said that he did Creighton Hale. The charac not tell the Manager that he was The final showings are today, toration all through ia excellent. 1684 constable but did mention that and we can commend the picture 28014 he had helped the Government on *37414 several occasions. The card 47.17/32 which ha produced to the Manager is a nyway Gaumont reel and a
.12.127%
20.4659
18.58
9/6belonged to Choy Hing, a Chinose 2/04%
detective, who had given it to him when they exchanged Now Year .25%
greetings.
-British Wiroloss,
na being well worth seeing,
Included also in the programimo
Buster Brown comedy in which
Tige, the well-known dog, is ra sponsible for some very clover- work.