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WEDNESDAY, MARCH
reported within the recent past. But the main fact which emerges from these developments is that
DAY BY DAY.
IN DIFFICULTY A SILENT TONGUE the so-called Nationalists have set AND A COOL HEAD ARY USUALLY In motion forces and influences MAN'S BEST WEAPONS.-Katherine which, however much they may Thurston dehiro to, they are quite unable to
The s.s. Paul Locat from Shang- control. It is this. circumstance hai reports two cases of mumps| which makes us doubt the possi-on board.. bility of reaching an agreement with the Nationalists as a single! and effective authority.
The presumption is drawn by
the Guardian that there may be
Yesterday's health return shows two cases of smallpox and one of typhoid. All were Chinese.
The 8.8. Empress of Asia, which left Hongkong on March 9th, ar rived at Vancouver on the 27th inst.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
PEAK TRAM FARES.
(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1
The Very Idea!
A specialist had been listening patiently to a lady callor for somo minutes, but at last he said, polite- ly looking at his watch with visiblo impatience, "Pardon me, madam, but my time is not, my own. You have given me all your symptoms. in sufcient detail, and now per-. haps you will kindly-er--ah-"
"Look here, Jane," interrupted. her husband, "ho doesn't want to. hear your tongue; he wants to look at it!"
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"Stand on your feet," his
father said,
Then you'll have naught to
lose."
And that's just what the young
mun did,
Because he had no shoes.
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Sir-It apparently needed 33 per cent, increase in the Peak Train fares to wake up the publie to criticism of Pouk Tram matters! For quite a apoll these new cars have been running and have not moved satisfactory public means of conveyancp. that the Tram Company has placed It is surprising these cars on the run, as they have proved that they do not fulfill the required conditions. It would not have caused an expert engineor the slightest rucking of his brain to work out the necessary exact cal- culations with regard to capacity of the machinery, weight of the
Two replicas of the boxes on the car, cable and passengers, as well as the bearing capacity of the road table of the British House of Com bed and the strength of the brakes; mons are to be dispatched to Aus- in fact, these items can be figured trulio as a present from the King out to a fractional part. The mis- to the Commonwealth Parliament. calculations committed have, un- The replicas, which are fashion- A taxi-enb caught fire yester-doubtedly lessened the public's con-ed of rosewood lined with green day afternoon, while going along fidence in the technical manage-leather and ornately bound with Garden Road. The outbreak was ment of the Peak Tramways Co. oxydleed silver, ara such faithful quickly extinguished with sand,
the interior of the cars satisfactory; continued use, including the famous Neither is the arrangement of copies that they reproduce the marks made on the original by long The seats are much too narrow and oratorical thumpings by Mr. Glad- so is the passage between the seats, the floor of the car is slippery and stone when engaged in some of his on famous ought to be provided with better passioned speechos cross steps whilst the two exit
practically constructed.
some demand by the Nationalists for the withdrawal of British troope as a preliminary to any The weather forecast up till further negotiations. If that noon to-morrow is: North-east turns out to be the case, titere winds, moderate; general overcast,
occasional rain." can only be one answer given the same as was given when a like The British vessel Telemachus, demand was put forward daring from Singapore, brought 47 male and one female departees, in the Hankow conversations; name-charge of 16 Indian guards. ly, that Britain must reserve to herself the right as to when and where she shall dispose of her arm ed forces.. With conditions as they
are in China to-day, the presence
of British naval and military man is absolutely essential for the pro- tection of life and property. And it is certain that these forces will
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and little damage was caused to
the vehicle.
The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. Cedric Arthur Laey Rickett, residing at No. 1A,
Aline Beatrice Cox, of Fulmar House, Farthing, England.
cecasiona.
The boxes will be placed on the
Tremain on the spot until there is Chatham Path, May Road, to Miss doors are absurdly narrow and in table of the new Parliament House
prévalent a far greater feeling of security than can exist at the pre- sent
Thongkong Telegraph. ont juncture.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1927.
THE POWER TO RULE.
Passengers arriving here by the 5.8. St. Albans from Japanese ports were Mr. R. L. Stewart, Miss W. Ponder, Miss C. Matheson, Mr. F. Eberhardt, Mr. T. F. Obbinson and Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Ogilvie.
I wonder whether the Peak Tramways Co. will claim the new cars as being an improvement" to the service and one of the reasons for the 33 per cent. increase in the fares? Or maybe the costly con struction of that marvellous archilt ectural monster, the May Road Station, has ruined the poor shareholders to such an extent that an increase in the fares ia justified!
A Thorny Problem. That the question of disarma- ment is a thorny one is proved by the fact that Viscount Cecil, who presented a draft Convention. on the matter to the Preparatory reported to the police the theft-Yours, etc., MID-LEVEL.
Mir, B. Vichy, Hving at No. 12, Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, Has
Hongkong, Mar. 29th, 1927.
when one would expect to take some steps to protect the interests of their members, seem content to maintain an attitude of master ly 'inactivity.
In the Peak Tramway Company
nt Canberra, and the Duke of York will make the presentation on be- half of the King.
For a breach of the Shops Áct at West Hartlepool, Sarah Phillips, of Belk Street, was fined: 58. It was stated the defendant sold a tin of condensed milk on the evening of a Wednesday, which is the day fixed by the Corporation for shops to close at one o'clock. The defon
of friction."
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The..
Don't enjoy not enjoying what the average man has enjoyed-Dr. W. H. Moborly.
dont said her shop was open. Commission of the Disarmament of $45 in notes, from his room.
all afternoon, because such perish- The extension of Nationalist | Conference, has failed to convince | The drawer in which the money
able goods as bread and confec- tionery did not come within the rule in China is, we observe, made either France, Belgium or Japan was kept was found to have been
provisions of the Act. The Magis- · the subject of comment by the shat his plan for the limitation broken open, yesterday morning.
of land forces is workable one.
Sir, I had hoped that the Peak trates' Clerk (Mr. J. H. Smith)— | Manchester Guardian, and the fact we do not know "precisely what
Public vaccination is to be per-Tramway Company's announce- She could have sold new milk, but. that about a half of the country was Lord Cecil's plan, but we do formed near the Peak Hotel en- ment of the increased charge for not condensed milk; it is farcical. is now under the nominal authority know that it advocated the limita-
trance on Sunday, April 3rd, from season tickets would have involk- tion of numbers and the limitation
A schoolgirl paraphrased the line of the Southerners is viewed by of the period of service. In the 2.30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Residents are ed such a storm of protest, from "To bicker down the valley.
invited to send their Chinese ser more able pens,than mine, that a that journal as "In a sense" elear- case of countries where every
vants, who wish to be vaccinated. contribution to your columns on from Tennyson's poem, ing the way for a settlement with it is called upon to do so much No fees are charged or may be my part would have been unneccs-Brock, as follows: "To have an
military service there has been
sary. Unfortunately it would ap-undignified quarrel in a low place accepted. રાં single effective Government, objection on the ground that it
pear that, with their usual spirit among the hills."
Another girl, given the life The use of the qualifying phrase would be most difficult to change
According to Harbour Office of laisser faire, the Hongkong re- is thoroughly justified; indeed, the present military system. The
for bruke, paraphrased it "He French and Belgian delegates have reports, for the twenty-four hours sidents concerned are content to from "Lochinvar," "He stayed not
do nothing and such bodies us the further comment of thelated that it la not possible to ending at 9 o'clock this morning the Peak Residents' Association. never stopped for a mechanical con- Guardian to a large extent nullifics limit numbers because the annual the total number of arrivals whe its opening contention. It is contingent liable for conscript 19 and departures 16, the British
trivance to reduce speed by means service cannot be reduced and figures being four and six respec- certainly true that the manner in that the introduction of a ballot tively. The total number of ves- which the Nationalists have gain-system was unthinkable. There sels in harbour now is 71. ed further control makes negotia- were many other objections raised,
It would be a misfortune if the to all of which Lord Cecil replied A former employee of the Kow- tion even more difficult than be that, if there could be no limita- loon Hospital was charged before we have a Company who admit to large family entirely ceased. to fore, and we cannot bring our-tion of present numbers there Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon a considerable increase in traffic exist.-Sir Thomas Horder,
I have been asserting for twenty selves to see that there is yet the was no possible use in continuing Magistracy this morning, with by constructing, or attempting to
a discussion on methods of limita- larteny of two blankets, the pro-construct, larger cars and who hayo years that the twelve finest Dovels least prospect of a settlement tion statement which seems perty of the Hospital. Defendant presumably also difccted a con-aro all Russian. Mr. Arnold Ben- with any effective Government. to be rather Incontrovertible.pleaded guilty and was fined $50,siderable
ling, an electric motor .in By the dexterity of theological There was little else to be done or one month's hard labour.
place of the old steam casusts innocent formula can be than make a complete withdrawal of the draft, although in doing so
engine. Yet, in spite of a larger misinterpreted. The Bishop of Arrested in connexion with the turnover and reduced running Birmingham, assume responsibility for the Britain's chief spokesman on the
We are all more or less rheuma- Commission stuck to his opinion by armed robbery committed at No. cast, the unfortunate season-tic- maintenance of order in the terri-Laying that he was convinced that 241, Portland Street on Sunday, ket holder is to be saddled with a tic after forty, aren't we?-Mr. tory coming within their jurisdichie opinion was the right one.Chinese rattan worker WA 33.1/3 per cent.. increase in the Justice Horridge.
In my opinion broadcasting was tion, but, as even the Guardian The difficulties of coming to any charged before Mr. W. Schofield, cost of his ticket'!
He It is difficult to imagine a aimi-going to be of the greatest help one can imagine. Sir Hamilton Points out, something more than agreement relative to the limits at the Kowloon Magistracy this
lar public utility company in any Harty. tion of land forces are going to moruing, with complicity. a mere declaration is requiredbe very great, apparently, if there was remanded for one week.
town or borough at Home Intro The eighteenth century was not there must be evidence of their is any idea of constricting the The engagement is announced ducing an increase lo fares on exclusively inhabited by geniuses. eapacity to enforce it. And that now, and one imagines that that is between Cyril K. Pearson, only this scale without investigation by Mr. Nigel Playfair. is precisely what is lacking in the the main idea behind the Disarnia- son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Pearson, the local authorities, and it is tn-
fortunate that the Government,. A deputation which stated that situation to-day. We have heard ment Conference. If the taember of 85, Addiscombe Road, Croy the thich exercises such a kindly hit was representative of bookmakers nations are only going to justify and Phyllis, elder daughter of the terest in the brakeing power" of in Dublin attended at the Queen's a great deal in recent times con-maintaining their land forces at 1ste Captain F. D. Goddard, of
named cerning the national' napirations the present strength it can scarce- Hongkong (Messrs. Goddard and the "Peak tranh, does not extend Theatre to protest to the manager
its activities to the provention of against an illuelonist, of the Chinese people, but if they hope to be à disarmament move. Douglas) and Mrs. Goddard, 20. the new rates to bo put into force. Princess Sunita, who is attracting...
It might be a valuable achlova- Foxley Lane, Purley.
It may be, of course, that with the large audiences to the theatre this facts were keenly scrutinised we ment to limit land forces to their
A rescue from one of the Yau- introduction of the now, comme week, carrying out her announced should find that, on the basis put precent strength, but that is some- forward by the Nationalists, these thing lower than what Britain mati Ferry launches was effected dious and luxurious cars a large-intention of forecasting the winners and its great leader in this matter yesterday, when a member of they increased staff of Engineers, of the Lincolnshire Handicap and aspirations are not very widely (Lord Cenil) were hoping for.
It is all very well for the
Nationalists to claim to be able to
size of land forces smaller than
GOING HOME
WELL-KNOWN RESIDENTS
LEAVING.
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economy by instal-nett.
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crew jumped into the water and conductors and inspectors are ro- Grand National Steeplechase. The brought out a Chinese male pas-quired, but if there is any real manager of the theatre was told senger who had attempted sui-justification for the increased that any tips offered in the manner cide. On the arrival of the rates, the travelling, public pre indicated would seriously affect launch at the Praya, the man was surely entitled to some statement market prices of the horses named. removed to the Government Civil as to the reason for the increase. Princess Sunita's manager was also The Company's revenue, as awaited on by the deputation with Hospital.
result of the increase in trafie the same object, 쑥
EXCHANGE RATES.
diffused. Apart from a handful· or more or legs Westernised politicians, the movement fests largely on the activities of.imma- ture students and professional. agitators. Under the "direction of Soviet propagandists," these noisy. extremists have, under the name The Empress of Canada will of democracy and nationalism, carry a large number of Hongkong residents when she leaves this started and kept alive a revolu- evening. Amongst these is Mr. G tionary movement, the advocates M. Young, of Messrs. Butterfield.
Paris of which are prepared to listen and Swire, who has been with this:
Приквен firm for about 30 years in Hong Berlin to no reason. Their policy is one kong and who is well-known in all Copenhagen of repudiation and. denunciation. circles, being past Chairman of
Helsingfors the Hongkong Club and past Lisbon The great bulk of the Chinese President of the St. Andrew's Buenos Aires people have no real, live interest Suciety.
Hongkong New York in politics, but the ignoránt and
Others going Home on lenve Amsterdum the gullible are drawn into the include Mr. John Arnold, Secreta
Stockholm inth-foreign campaign which is so tary of the Steamboat Company: Praia closely interlocked with the politi-Mr. E Towns, of the Hongkong Bucharest
and Shanghai Bank;
Mr. C. Bombay cal movement set going by the Bulmer Johnson, and Capt. T. TYokohama Nationallats. If we look at the Laurenson, D.S.C.
Genevn Milan situation from this standpoint, it does not become difficult to realisa
Mr. Allan Camoroa, Oriental Orlo Manager of the C.P.S., is goin Vidata to Yokohama by the same bort, Athens how the molas, have got out of whilst Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Monage, Ric hand and how unülsciplined troopean are proceeding to Canada, Shanghai have been gulity of such exceser and Mr. P. W. Massey, of Reiss, Silver (#pot)
Massey and· Co., leaves for Silver (forward) against foreigners as have been Shanghai.
'London, Mar. 29.
must be considerably larger than
two or three years. ago, but even
There was an unmistakable sneer
if circumstances do warrant an on the face of the new boarder as increase in fares, it is past under-.be sniffed at the contents of his standing why the burden should coffee-cup and set it down.
be borne by the season-ticket "Well," asked the landlady in a holder Instead of the "casual" peevish tone, "have you anything traveller. The number of sight to say against the coffee?"
"Not a word," he answered. Acura and travellers on pleasure
124 13405 20.17 bent, who use the tram daily, must never speak ill of the absent!"
be considerable, and it is surely
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199 only equitable that such travellers" 2.17/32 should provide any increased re-
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"Was your trip to Egypt a success.?"
I day it was. Seeing the 47.17/32 venue required, in preference to 2/0.1/10 the regular ticket-holders. An in- Sphinx gave me an iden for a 4.80.28/32 crease of 33.1/3 per cent.. on a slogan that'll increase our busi- 12.144 Penk tram fare is nothing to the mess, at least 40 per cent. next
108%20und-the-world tourist, but an ad-Year." 20.88 to consideration for the average
ditional $86 per annum is a defi- Derbyshire reveller: I am not
a strict drunkard; I drink only drops.
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Enclosing my card. Yours, et •
H. E. LE-N. SIDE.
Hongkong, March 80th, 1927.
710
1/6 .2/0.5/16. .26.24 ..200 18.68%
season-ticket holder.
2/5 1/16
25
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