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BOOTIL-On April 7th, at the French Hospital, to Marjoris, the wife of L. 11. Booth,
Police Headquarters, a son.
Che
Thongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, APRIL 8 1927.
THE PEKING COUP.
FRIDAY,
APRIL 8, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
A MAN CAN ALWAYS MAKE BLUN-
The French warship Bellatris left here for Shunghal this morn-
ganda leaflets, evidently of a sedi- tious nature, and other items definitely associating her вута- pathics with a cause in which she DES, BUT IT TAKES A WOMAN TO is ometally supposed to be uninter-CONVINCE HIM OF THEM.-Con- ested. The Peking raid has un- | stanco Evan Jones. masked the hypocrites at Moscow and their China agents.
Their chagrin will be all the more inten-ing. slfled. But all apholders of law' and order will see in this exposure a warning of the menace that Bol- cheviam spells to the whole world. Sinco the above was written,
The only case of notifiable disease further action against Soviet pro-reported to the authorities yester
been pagandista has
taken day, was one Chinese case of small-
at Tientsin and Shanghal. The Manchurian warlord has do- finitely lengued himself against the Soviet. If it means that he will now stand up to the "Red" elements in the country, and if the foreign Powers have now to take a definite line of action against Russian ma- chinations, the Peking coup will likely prove to be the turning point in Far Eastern affairs.
The local weather forecast up to noon to-morrow is:-N. E winds, frosh; overcast,
pcx.
The 6.8. Empress of Russia is duo to arrive here on Saturday after noon at four o'clock and will berth nt Kowloon Wharf.
A spaniel dog belonging to Mr. Perry, manager of the Kowloon Hotel, was removed yesterday the Mataukok depot after it had batten Miss Perry.
of the by HE place fa Central at 3.30 p.m. on
The annual inspection Hongkong Police Force The Governor, will take the compound of the Police Station. Tuesday, April 19th.
Reports gave 18 arrivals and 16 de- This morning's Harbour Office partures, British returns giving six and nine under the respective headings. There remain 65 ves- sels in harbour, of which 24. are British.
21 YEARS AGO.
EXTRACTS FROM
· "TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended April 14th, 1906.
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The rate of the dollar one- mand was 23. 0.0/16d.
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It was reported that 1,500 mon were to be engaged on the con- Atruction of the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway.
The wrecked German steamer Decima was sold, as she lay off Hainan Island, to Mr. Sul Hing for $225, the same purchaser securing the 1,000 bags of coal in her for $25- $250 in all.
The school children at Quarry Bay, under the direction of Mr. Robert Dickson, gave a successful presentation of the play "Play- mates."
A
The Very Idea!
"I have doelded on a name for the baby," said the young mother "I shall call her Eurydice."
the suggestion, but boing a tactful Her husband did not care for.
follow, he was far too wise to say
10.
"Splendid," he said cheerfully. "The first girl I ever loved was called Eurydice, and it will revive plenannt memories."
There was a brief aflence, Then, "We will call her Elizabeth, after my mother," said the young wife firmly.
An application:--.
Parfumed by Coty, cigarette
сляе
Handkerchief bordered with
flet lace, Nonchalant manner drawn too
fine.
• "If
there's anything open, wo'll drop you a line."
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Acting as witnesses to weddings is becoming one of the regular duties of attendants at the Hos-
Mr. F. Salinger ceased to signpital do Prompto Soccoro, emer for Messrs. Reiss and Co., on gency police hospital in Rio.. leaving the Colony.
Recently, a young man who had been seriously wounded in a shoot- In the final of the Soldiers' Clubing affray called his sweetheart to Football Shield, the West Kents his bedside in the hospital, and defeated the Royal Engineera by the marriage ceremony was per- two goals to nil
formed while the groom's life hung in the balance." He oven- tually recovered.
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the new Commander-in-Chief of Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Moore; the China Squadren, paid an official visit to Macao.
cere.
legs had been crushed in a train accident was married as he lay in A few days later a youth whose
the hospital. Wedding monies are performed by civil Seven thousand Boxers mude authorities and witnessed by the demonstration in Huana, carrying hospital attendants. bapaers inscribed: "Free China
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The Commons' Debate.
There can be nothing but praise and support for the able manner in which Sir Austen Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, stated the case of Britain on the China crisis, during the course of Wednesday's debate, for his reasoned and clear pronouncement should do much to clear away the haze created by re- cent slirring events and give all a new glimpse of the essentials of the case, Britain's policy has not. changed and she is still ready to yesterday that an employee of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung sent A report was made to the police and Exterminate the Foreigners." settle difficult question in a friend-Tack Hing firm, at No. 161, Destroops and soon dispersed them. ly spirit and to recognise every- Voeux Road West, has 'disappea thing legitimate in Chinese national |ed from his post after drawing a papírations. Britain is in Chico | sum of $6,000 in the firm's name
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in pursuance of treaty rights and from the National City Bank of she has no other interest than to New York. live on terms of peace and friend-
ship with the Chinese people. She Suffering from the effects of a has taken the lead in opening nego- large dose of opium, which she tiations and she has made declara- took with the apparent intentio tions of the most liberal policy ever of committing suicide, a Chinese proposed to China. But in face of the attitude of the responsible Na- Wons was moved yesterday to tionalist authority and because of the Kwong Wah Hospital, from its inability to execute the terms of her home at No. 56, Pelho Street,
Shamshuipo.
"TELEGRAPH” PICTURES.
BIG VARIETY TO-MORROW.
To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph will contain many Pictures of local interest, dealing with recent occurrences in Hong- kong and Canton.
Amongst the wedding groups
the usual kind of wife-she wants Hackney husband: My wife is
all you have and a bit over.
Solicitor, at Shoreditch County Court: The debtor kept his word and paid on the last occasion. Plaintiff Yes-truth is stranger. than fiction.
Mr. W. B. Luke (Willesden mavistrate): There will be no cessation of these constant. quarrels until every married Woman has her self-contained home and her own front door.
It is impossible 'not to realise the until matters have been brought to the quarantine restrictions imposed will be those taken at the mar- 'Judge
gravity of the situation following the coup carried out at Peking by order of Chang Tso-lin, and pre-Britain is not prepared to be hus-trictions have been imposed against sumably with the sanction of most, if not all, of the diplomatic repre- sentatives of foreign Powera. The repercussion at Moscow is likely to
its agreements or to give protec- tion, a series of disastrous incid- ents and episodes has eventuated We are officially informed that a critical lead, culminating in the against arrivals from Vladivostock Nanking outrages and the presen- on account of small-pox have been tation of a demand for reparation. withdrawn, and that quarantine.res tled out of China and she is not arrivals from Bangkok on account prepared to be treated as though of cholera and small-pox. she had no rights and as though the lives and property of her nationals were of no account. That is a be extreme, and the effect of this declaration of policy with, which every sober-minded Britisher will raid on the Soviet Embassy pre-be in hearty agreement, for, it is mises might well be felt throughout a policy with which Britain can go the world. To take merely a de-square face to the world and prove tached view of the situation, one can easily realise how the "Red" elements throughout China will now rally to the side of the Soviet, and how increasingly bitter the pro-
Found lying at Morrison H Road and injured in the head and arms, a Chinese woman was yes terday removed to the Government Civil Hospital. The police are en- which continued on its way after deavouring to trace a motor-cur knocking down the woman.
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When the Ma Tau Kok nur-
Cage was called Kowloon Magistracy
and Miss Helen Ann Hog, at St. ringes of Captain P. C. Perfect John's Cathedral; of Mr. T. O. Lammert and Mian P. D. Quitzow at Shameen; and of Mr. Walter C. Clark and Miss Evelya W. Thomp son, at St. John's Cathedral.
▼
Doctor, to a. barrister at Shore- nonsense you're putting to me! ditch County Court: What utter. Cluer (joining in the laughter)! That is the proper is what the Bar thinks of some of my questions. way to answer! I suppose that
Home-
Nottinghamshire wife: birds are not such good husbands as those who go out a lot.
husband a member of any club? Solicitor at Mansfield: Is your Wife: He is a member of the public house.
Sporting events will be covered Football Shield final between the by pictures taken at the Senior K.O.S.B.'s and Kowloon and at the Central British School sports, whilst also in this section will be nasties and a group of the Kow- photos of Wah Yan College gym- its bona fides. The Labour Party
A cockney Ind, taken for the at Home still seem to be in the fog
loon Bowling Green Club's first time to a Scottish concert, of indecision-anxious to give sup
Committee.
said at the close that he had thoroughly enjoyed himself, but he port to whatever is genuine in the
There will also be a photograph wanted to know if one of the "forward" movement in China and der therefore chary of administering the
at taken at the funeral of Signalman singers had got his fourpenca. yes-C. E. Scarlett, of the 13th Infantry His interlocutor asked what he censure on the Nationalists, whom terday afternoon, one of Brigade, who lost his life by
was referring to. "Well," said the paganda against "Imperialism" will they have been regarding as real the female defendants was ab-drowning in the New Territories youth, "the chap was singing,
reformers. But the Nationalists sent and it was explained by In-recently. be If one visualises an even have failed hopelessly and have be-spector Reynolds she was unable
'Where's me fourpence, Charlie?" " bigger perspective, there appears a come the victims of "Red" inilu- to appear on account of illness. conviction that Nationalist and fences and the inheritors of power The case was accordingly adjourn- which they cannot control. Theed for one week pending her re- Russian Bolshevist leaders have Labour Party at Home would do covery, now another bond of sympathy, well to recognise that fact instend especially as there is A threat of harping on the plea for negotia-
It may be
tions, especially as the Nationalists
Charged with possessing "1"
HONGKONG ESTATES.
LETTERS OF ADMINIS- TRATION.
Violet Burton, 7, used to go to to school at West Coker. One day her father gave her a silver brace- let. Teacher told her to take it off. Father told, Violet to wear it. The next day Violet was sent to remove the Embassy to Hankow. have not hitherto honoured their taels of Chinese opium, which was
home. Father bought her a gold bracelet and took her to school some time before bond. Mr. Lloyd George has evid-found by Revenue Officers to be ently learned rauch wisdom of late, concealed in his girdle, a Chinese
himself. Meanwhile the school for, by his Commons speech, he is was fined $1,000, or six months'
Letters of Administration have board met and decided that no now a firm supporter of the Govern-by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this mor- been granted to Mr. G. G. N. Tin-child wearing bracelets or similar son, of Messra. Johnson, Stokes, adornments could be admitted. Dent in what is, admittedly, an ex-lug. A 14-year-old boy, who was
and Master, in respect of the will The affair finally reached the ceedingly difficult and delicate tasks.used as the carrier, but who was
held by his Worship to be old of the late Mr. L. Fontaine, a Ministry of Education which enough to know better, was order-French national, who died at upheld the school officials.. ed to receive twelve strokes of the Dijon, Department of Cote d'or, France, on October 7th, 1925, and left Hongkong estate to the value of $39,100. He appointed his wife
the whole matter of whether or not the premises raided were part of the Russian Embassy, is thrashed out. Meantime, one can examine
the justification or otherwise of the coup. So far as it meant a | clean-out of "Red" plottery against the constituted authority at Peking. it was entirely justified. The ma-i teriul seized tells eloquently of the plans being laid by Bolshe vist agents in the heart of the city.
SPURIOUS NOTES.
BIG HAUL FROM · CANTON
PASSENGER.
rattan.
In a larceny charge, heard be-as executrix. fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morn-
A foki raised the alarm and the man was caught before he had gone very far. Sentence of four weeks' hard labour was passed,
Attorney of Mrs. Plummer.
it
Mr. J. Plummer, late of Messrs. ing, it was stated that the defen-W. F. Stevenson and Co., Manila, dant walked into a piece-goods who died on September 12th last The belief that there exists in stop at Wanchai, and, having year at Edinburgh, left Hongkong. the Canton district an organisa- made a careful inspection selected estate worth $10,700. A re-scal It is reminiscent of the stories one, Hongkong banknotes on a large middle of a stack of similar goods, granted to Mr. W: B. L. Shenton, tion which is issuing spurious a roll of cloth placed in the ing of Testament Dative has been had from Shanghai of plots dis-scale has been further strengthen- and walked out of the shop with of Deacons, who is the lawful covered some weeks before the cityed by the arrest of a man aboard it.
the river atenmer Sal On with fell to the Nationalist forces, and is nearly $5,000 worth of such notes, but in accordance with the well-all of $10 denomination, in known system of the Southerners possession. of striking both from within and without. Evidently the raid at Peking has nipped in the bud the plans for a "Red" coup which was to have been of unexampled dimen- sions.
were
his
NAMSANG DELAYED.
AT ANCHOR WITH FOUL PROPELLER:
„Terpsichore has distinctly taken the wrong turning; and the accounts of the new dances are discouraging. There is the Black Bottom, the very name of which' spoils a spring morning
Once you get the stomp-the peculiar beat of the foot--and you both hit the floor and not a 'neighbour'a ankle, it is quite suitable as a ballroom dance, The idea of the movement is that you are shaking the mud off your shoes that is all
So It is quite. literally true that we take our new modes from the gutter.
goldiers
The arrest was' made yesterday Owing to the fact that the "Cur- afternoon when the Sai On came few order in Shanghai has now in from. Canton. Revenue officers been partially lifted, the Wilbur were on duty at the wharf when Players have telegraphed their ad-
CANTON CLASH, they saw a man carrying two vance agent in Hongkong that it caddies of tea and an umbrella, will be possible to fulfill the original but no other luggage of any intention as regards the
Thos. Norasang, of the Indo- SOLDIERS AND WORKERS. Beason China 3. N. Company, clearing for kind. When, the caddies were there and that their visit to Hong- Amoy at daylight this morning,
A clash between the workmen of The technical point of trespass searched, the notes, to the face kong must be postponed. The ar- was compelled to anchor off the the Kwangtung Arsenal and the
value of $1,900,
on guard there, took. found rangements for the players to open Kowloon Star Ferry Wharf with a
strike there for several hours.
way.
the workmen refused to admit two Divers were down this forenoon, sick soldiers into the Workmen's and the work of clearing the obs-Hospital of the Arsenal The truction ja proceeding.
leader of the troops insisted that the sick soldiers should be admit- ted. The strike was afterwards settled through the mediation of the Labour Department, but the workmen are threatening to ran sume the strike unless the soldiers on guard at the Arsonal are with drawn
within the limits of a foreign Lega-skilfully concealed in the ten at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, on fouled propeller, she having picked place on Tuesday resulting in a tion has yet to be fought out. It caddies All the notes were April 12th. have been cancelled. is sufficient for the present to note newly-printed, and the fact that Later announcements will be made up a rope whilst getting under The origin of the trouble was that the nature of the haul made by the carrier appeared to be rather regarding the visit to Hongkong.
poverty-stricken. aroused
auch
Chang Tso-lin's raiders. If Mos-suspicions that he was taken into cow desires to stand before the custody and conveyed to the police
headquarters, eyes of the world in the guise of
Mr. Havelock Wilson, president At the Central Police Station,of the National Union of Seamen,. a wronged party, she will have to the notes were examined and has challenged Mr. A. J. Cook to
Mag-sing, enying he
a Scott, a British scaman; who, It is
do a great deal of explaining. She found to be forgeries. The arrest-n public debate at. Edinburgh re- Two garding the treatment of David will have to justify the accumula-ed man gave his name as tion in promises attached to her native of Hol Ping. He refused and, was imprisoned, "in Russia" Legation of war material, propa- to make any statement.
WAS
for ten months without trial.
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