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the duty of Britain immediately to enter into negotiations with them. At Hankow, at Kinklang and at Nanking, despite the most definite assurances from the Nationalists, the position ot foreigners has been rendered absolutely untenable, and we have
not the least doubt but that'
Shanghal would be in a precisely similar plight but for the presence of large forces of foreign troops and marines." The British Foreign Secretary a few days age well ex- pressed our policy in regard to Nationalist promises when he said that we must watch what happened and judge not necording to professions but according to performances. It is certainly far too early in the day as yet to think of negotiating with regard to the future status of Shanghai.
The line taken by the Pcking and Tientsin Timce is the one which must appeal to all Britishers in the East and to all others who have a just appreciation of the Chinese situation. It is that the policy of patience and conciliation hitherto followed by Britain, is Jending Chinese extremists to be- lieve that British subjects exist only to be outraged and their pro- perly looted with impunity. We thoroughly endorse the view that no more concessions should be made to the Nationalists until they are in a position not only to promise but to guarantee full protection to foreigners and to foreign interests.
Mental Chaos,
DAY BY DAY.
TIMES BLIND; IF A SERVANT, SOME; IF THOU ART A MASTER, DE SOMK-
TIMES DEAF.-Buller.
A further Chinese case of small- Pox was notified yesterday,
St. Paul's Collège sports, poned on account of wet weather, aro to be held on Monday.
The weather forecast up t noon to-morrow is: "South-east winds, moderate; overcast, fog, occasional rain.”
CORRESPONDENCE,
PEAK TRAM FARES.
To the Editor, Hongkong
Telegraph.]
The Very Idea!
سراع
A Glasgow couple, previous to leaving for the
pantomime ONG night, advised their Sir, I have been much interest- young hopefuls to aminse ed in the lottora which have ap-
themselves during their peared in your columns with ra sonce by inventing a now game. post-gard to the proposed increase in The youngsters were at first doubt- Teak tram fares, and note with ful about the matter but latterly much satisfaction that the Peak accepted the proposal. When the Residents' Association la taking parents returned they found the up the matter with the Govern-kiddies in high glec.
"Well, did you invent a new game?" queried ment
A point which appears to have dad. "Oh, yea," replied the eldest been overlooked by your corres-
girl with enthusiasm, "wo played pendents, however, is that the pro- telephones, and and it was a grant success." "Telephones?" remarked posed increases not only apply todaddy: "what's that? "Well, you the season-tickets, but also tó coupons. For instance, third up the phone directory. We found
B2B"
explained Gertie, "we looked class coupons
are to be raised there were exnetly twenty-five ped from $1.50 to $1.80, an increase of ple of the name of Smellio in our 20 per cent, and a book of twenty district. So we rang them up one first-class coupons will in future after another. We always asked, cost $5,40 instead of $5.00 an in-
'Are you Smellie?' and when they crease of 8 per cent. The former, replied that they were we just said, 'And what are you going to do about it?" "
The motor vessel Javanese Prince, from New York, salled Wednesday from Shanghai on afternoon and is expected to arrive here at daylight to-morrow.
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Sentence of three months' hard labour was this morning passed on a. Chinese on. conviction of JE it should be remembered, are charge of uttering a forged ton-largely bought by householders dollár note at the Saifee Store, at for the use of their market coolies. Happy Valley.
So here we have proposed in- creates of 33.1/3 per cent., 20 per
In connexion with the Found-cent. and 8 per cent.-all, in my ers' Day and Prize-Giving of St. opinion, quite unjustified. Stephen's College, to take place in the Great Hall of the University to-morrow at 7.30 p.m., Old Boys and friends are especially invited to be present.
Thirty-six fishing nets have been stolen from the sen between to a report made by the master Junk Bay and Lyemin, necordiin of a fishing junk to the police, The value of the nets stolen is placed at $108.
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It is not as if the Peak Tram- way Company were losing money, Their shares cannot be obtained on the market, as they are held by people who have come to regard them as extremagly sound and pay- able livestments. In these cir. cumstances, there should be a dents against the proposed in joint protest from all Peak rosi-
creases. Yours, etc.,
PEAKITE. Hongkong, Mar. 30th, 1927.
were
It's easy enough to be pleasant When life flows 'round and
'round;
But the man worth while,
Is the man who can amile,: With his gartere coming down.
That melancholy isle, Tristan da Cunha (which so much needs an Isolde da Cunha), has had a visit from the R. M. S. P. steamer Aa- turias, which reports :---
Large raft, containing groceries, blankets, paints, tobacco, confec
tionery, toys, etc., safely landed. Thirty of the inhabitanta, in three boats, visited ship, and were over. whelmed again with the generous contributions of clothing, gramo phones, and every conceivable gift showered into their bonts. tan his it troubles, but its importa and experts are more extensively advertised than those of any other port in the world.
Tris-
Woman at Tottenham to another woman! You called me a pauper because I was shingled.
Tottenham witness: You say I hit you. Can you produce the mark?
Man at Bow County Court; There' is only one safe place to-day in the. traffic-the pavement.
Barrister, at Bow County Court: It is not much use paying wages unless they pay for the paying.
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Counsel at, Bow County Court: Are you a motorist? Man: No, there is more fun in watching others have the accidents.
Nottinghamshire witness: loaf of bread, including a joint of meat, had been removed.
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Judge Cluer at Shoreditch Coun- ty Court: Stop talking at once. Woman: I cannot.
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Policeman at Willesden:
This
Coster: If so,
By kind permission of Lieut- Sir,In your issue of yesterday Colonel W. A. Stewart, O.B.E., and note with regret that the Hon. Officers, the band of the 1st Bat-Secretary of the Peak Residents talion Middlesex Regiment will Association has taken exception to play at the 9.30 performances to my referekee to his Association night, Saturday and Sunday, at in my previous letter on the sub the Star Theatre
ject of Peak Tram fares. The idea of entering into any form of The third annual athletic sports argument with Mr. Hornell, of the Sacred Heart College is to through the medium of your Tho manner in which the take place on 10th inst. at the columns, makes no appeal to me, Despite all the terrible thingsLabour" Unions 111 Shanghai Hongkong Football Club ground. particularly now the P. R. A. has
have run riot of late was that have happened in various
well The prizes are now on exhibition shown itself to be so entirely in illustrated yesterday in two at the showroom of the Sincere pecord with the views expressed placm op the Yangtsze which have| Reuter messages from that port, Company's branch at Shanghai in my last letter., However, for come under the control of the one of which told of the formation Street, Yamati.
the sake of accuracy I would like Nationalists, Labour M. Pls at will only pay their landlords 50 of a Union the members of which
to point out that my reference to A tailor living at 20, Aberdeen his Association read it would Home still appear willing to place per cent of the rent due, the other Street, second floor, has reported appear that.... Buch bodies as the faith in the professions of Nation-telling of how a "gunman" when to the police that between two Peak Residents' Association .... alist spokesmen regarding the convicted of murdering loyal and six c'clock yesterday morning, scem content to maintain an at- woman worker confessed that he clothing to the value of $136 was titude of masterly inactivity," ensuring of protection to foreign was paid $10 to do the job by a stolen from his shop. The thieves and Innamuch as no atatement of lives and property. Not caly so, prominent member of the General effected an entry by breaking the the P.R. A.'s activities had at the
Labour Unlön. but there has yet apparently been
It would be grille outside the door.
time been made and ordinary difficult to find more convincing
members of the Association were, no declaration from this quarter evidence of irresponsibility than At the Marine Court this morn-as far as I could ascertain, un- that the despatch of British forces this and we hope sincerely that ing, before Licut-Commdr. G. F.e that the P. R. A. to the East has been vindicated such news items as these are Hole, Cheung Kan, master of actually taking any action, I cai- by recent events an omission seems to
Lelegraphed to London where there Ashing junk, was charged with not see that my reference to the
be a lot of false being under way in the Southern Association was out of place. which caused Sir John Simon, the sympathy for the so-called Chinese Fairway without regulation lights I note also that Mr. Hornell g well-known Liberal statesman, tó
"Labour" cause. There are few and was fined $10, with the alter-anxious to ascertain whether I men who will deny that there is native of 10 days' imprisonment.
am myself a member of the P. R. A. administer a rebuke to the Labour La very big legitimate sphere for
or ot and that he also asserts Party a few days ago. One would trade unionism in China-
The Provincial Government in views are worthless and un
that if I am not a member, my country where workers are. low- have thought that after the ter-aid and where the standard of Canton has been requested by the justified." Whilst not a member
Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sub- rible ordeal which Britishera ani life of a worker is not sufficiently mita defuit report on the dam other foreigners underwent last high to constitute a strong in suffered by villagers in
ducement to a man to work at all. week at Nanking that there would The improvement of conditions ence of the recent Brkish ruk have been some appreciation of and terms of labour, the helping Canton Gazette, that a claim for on Blas Bay, in order, says the the fact that nothing short of non of much-needed social develop compensation may be fled against
ment and many other worthy the British Government. wholesale massacre would have activities await attention at the
"worthless and unjustified!” occurred but for the timely hands of properly organised
Now that the Hon. Secretary "I don't understand that," said presence of British and Anierican labour, but when the present already given many years of de- P. B. A's attitude towards the
The Rev. F. J. Griffith, who has has seen fit to make publie the the teacher. "Surely it's wrong." ganisations stoop to hiring
"Oh, no, replied the child, "the naval forecu. But seemingly criminal gunmen to commit invoted work to China, recently proposed intrease in season ticket book says a stone copper, but I Labour Members of timidating murders they instantly volunteered to return there, to hell rates, no-one is more sincere than thought that was a more polite
in the development of work among Parliament who do not pay heed lose all the support of those who, the blongols on the North-West in congratulating him and his way of putting it."
otherwise, would be anxious to do to such obvious lessons as were all possible to assist Labour in frontier of China. Mr. Grind Association on the efforts they provided by thobe outrages, China to come more fully into its day on the P. and 6: Malwa, the success which the cause they passed through Hongkong yester-are making and in wishing him though we imagine that they own. The formation
foolish "Unions"
He comes East for five years' re championing deserves. Yours, 19 that for
etc.. would adopt a rather different cutting rents in half without, ap-forthcoming mainly through his service, for which all the money is
. E. LEN. SIDE. attitude were they themselves, or parently, the slightest heed to the own efforts. He will be stationed
Hongkong, April 1, 1927. - relatives, placed in the economics of the ease or without at Tatung-fa, in the Diocese of pasition in which these Nanking any reference to the owners of the North China. This special work property, furthe illustrates thic
was mentioned in "The Call from residents found themselves."
madness of the mental riot into the Far East" Report of the Mis Another point which strikes us which the ignorant Chinese people aionary Council, and Mr. Griffith, In reading the questions put in the have been stampeded by Com-in apite of over thirty years mis- munists and other nyitators.sionary service in China, readily House of Commons regarding the The very foundations of the social offered to go out again. China crists is that these Labour Etructure are threatened by such M. F's have the very haziest ap-what the Communists desire
roderse, and this is, apparently,
preciation of the real situation. calling it "a world-wide social re- This was demonstrated a couple volution." Surely, the hand of of days ago when both Comman- der Kenworthy and Colonel Wedg- wood pressed the Governinent for
there re
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of
such
Moscow is plainly soen behind this ferment in Shanghai, and it is a forchoding interference and threat that ought to be fought with every resource at the hands
a declaration on the question of of China's, truest friends. suggested negotiations with the Nationalists regarding the future
of the International Settlement nt. Shanghal. The point which these questioners always appear to overlook, despite the fact that they are constantly reminded of it,
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$10,000 FINE.
conge-
WOMAN CAUGHT WITH OPIUM.
twenty minutes. coster was at the street corner for of the P. R. A., I really feel I have he must have been a bit sleepy to some light to my own views in allow it. matters of auch public interest aa Peak Tram fares and it is surely The clase had been told to write rules out the opinions of any but little boy had written In the kit." an enviable "complacency which an essay du “Oliver Twist," and one members of the Association
13
21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAPH FILES. The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week onded April 7th, 1905.
The rate of the dollar on de- mand was 28. 0. 5/8d.
The Diocesan Boys' School won the Schools Football Shield, scor- ing 23 out of a possible 24 points. This was the first year of the School League.
A Chinese woman appeared be. fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this morn
At the annual meeting of the ing, charged with being in posses Alice Memorial and Nethersole sion of 262 taels of non-tiovern Hospitals it was announced that ment opium.
said the woman was searched in
chen stood the statue of a police- man."
It seems that Sir Austen Cham- berlain was quite in order in say ing "Yes, sir" to Miss Lawrence'd question, for in theory, every re- mark in the House is addressed to the Speaker. But Dr. Johnson; from the shades; must view with Bome apprehension this equivoca! use of his favourite word; especial- ly at a time when both chairmen" and "jurymeh" can be feminine. One is reminded of Sydney Smith's compliment to the Grotes: "I like him; he is so ladylike. And I like Her; she is such a perfect gentle ma
The sweet young thing entered the local stationer's and asked for
pound of wax.
"Wax, madame?" echoed the as- sistant.
for polishing the floor."
"Yes," answered the girl, "wax
"Oh," replied the other, "wo aro. stationers. The only wax we keep is scaling-wax,”
"Bother!" exclaimed the malden "That's no us at all. sharply. "Chief Preventive Omee Clarke the fo Mui Kwai Hospital had we're having a dance, and I want
been completed. At the same
to wax the floor, not the celling." the street and ten tacts of opium ingeting a Sub-Committee was ap- were found on her. She took the pointed, including the Rev. H. R. Revenue Officers to 23, Sharp Wells, to confer with the Tung consumers the Kowloon residents An accident which might have Street, where, in a cublele, which Wah Hospital committed to pro-are far more obstémious than
those of Hongkong." in that this is an lesue which con-had serious results was avert contained only a bed and a box.moto à hospital in Kowloon. cerns Hoveral other nations beed yesterday by the discovery at they found a further 262 taels. Thirty-two Australian horses The appointment of Dr. Hean- aidas Britain, and, in any case, as the Tailsoo Sugar Refinery that The woman had the key of the landed in Hongkong for transfer ley as Aselstant Government Bac
certain parts of a vacuum pump Sir Austen Chamberlain so well had been stolen..
The woman said she came from once to Shanghai where they were teriologist was gazetted. fat it, the moment is by no means
A Chinese who was to-day charg. the country and rented the cubicle to be auctioned for racing pur-
poses. propitious for the opening ofed before Mr. R. E. Lindaell with to live in. The oplum was left
being in possession of some of the there by someone else.
The P. and O. liner Dovanha ar- negotiations. The Labour iden apmlesing parts, was sentenced tỏ His Worship asked. O.P.O.rived in Hongkong on her maiden peurs to be that boenuse the six weeks' hard labour...
Clarke if he thought she was voyage: Nationalists come into occupation
Sergeant Meadowa explained | dealer, and was told that she must that had the machine been started be.
box on her.
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of a given city (often, ba.it noted, without these parts a serious ac Mr. Lindsell imposed a înd of by buying over the enemy), it is eldent would have taken place. $10,000, or one year's hard labour.
In'a loading article on the wa tor supply problem it was stated
It is quito clear that as water
At the annual meeting of the. China Light and Power Co., Ltd., the Hon. Mr. R. G. Shewan refer red to a concession from the Chi- nese Government at Canton for the lighting of the city and stated that a sum of $70,000 had been spent there on buildings and ma chinery