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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, APRIL
12.
DAY BY DAY.
1927.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE EDUCATION OF TO-MORROW MUST BE THE EDUCATION OF PRAC-
The a.s. Kashgar, from Hong- kong, arrived at Marseilles оц Friday last.
YOU Powers will not submit to being „MUST | bullied, to insults and attacks, to OWN IT driving their nationals out of the places they have built up during a contury of tremendous effort to TICAL MEN, BY PRACTICAL MEN, FOR what happened at Nanking. Bri- | PRACTICAL MEN.→J, S. Remington tain has given up Hankow and Kiu- Kinng and the result has been other- wise than encouraging to Eritain or to any other country which, other- wise, might have been willing to enter into negotiations. "China's policy under the present regime at Hankow is discouraging her friends and is leaving herilsolated. At the nd of the Washington Conference, China had friends among all nations, but to-day she is largely without friends except for her mis- taken friendship with Soviet Rua-
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DEATH.
CARVALHO-On April 11, 1927, at the French Convent Hos- pital, Armando A. Carvalho,
en
aged 31 years. Funeral will pass the Monument to-day, at 5.15 p.m. (Lisbon and Macan papers please copy).
Ohe
via.
The P. & O. ss. Mantua, from Hongkong, arrived at London, on Friday last.
The P. and O. 5.8. Jeypore, with the outward mails, left Singapore on Sunday afternoon and is due here on Saturday evening.
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A thief entered the residence of Dr. R. A. Basto, on the Taipo Road yesterday, and stole money and jewellery to the value of $83.
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PEAK RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION.
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
through the
The Very Idea!
Captain Jones was giving a short lecture to the recruits of his company on their demeanour in public.
"If a civilian," he said, "should made offensive remarks in 1 Sir-May I
public-house and try to induce a courtesy of your columns request quarrel the well conducted soldier all Penk residents who wish to should drink up his beer and go renew their subscription for the quietly away," current year or become Members After his address, Captain Jones of the Association to forward to questioned his audience to ascer me their names and Peak addresstain if they had comprehended his with $i for an individual sub-remarks.
$2 for a married "Now, Private Jenkins, what scription or couple as the case may be, for would you do if you were at an which receipts will immediately be inn and a civilian wanted to Issued.
quarrel with you?"
It will save a lot of clerical work in sending out Circulara if the request I have made -meets with the ready response fro'n
The Empress of Asia left Van-Penk residents which I feel I may couver for Hongkong, via Japan confidently rely on.-Yours, etc.," ports and Shanghai, on Saturday! and is due here on the 29th April.
E. B. C. HORNELL,
Hon. Secretary, Feak Residents'
Association,
Hongkong, April 12, 1927.
A handbag containing $130 has been stolen from Miller House, Cameron Road. It was the pro- perty of a resident, Mrs. Addy, who has since reported the loss to the SANE AND NORMAL. police.
MAN FOUND IN GOVERNMENT
HOUSE GROUNDS,
The Nationalists have wasted a golden opportunity to prove their worth Ay administrators. For years past we have been urging the powers-that-ba "ht Canton to apply themselves vigorously to putting Kwangtung in order. There are many matters awaiting urgent at- tention by sincere administrators, and yet, the Province to-day is not very much better governed than it was a few years back; lawlessness and corruption still being rife.
Recently, in the curly morning, China is in most dire need of really
Chinese called at Government hard udministrative work on the
House. He managed to slip into the grounds unobserved by the part of her rulers, but instead of
Among those sailing yesterday by guards at the gates, and had got on applying themselves to that task the P. and 0 8.8. Khyber were Mr. to the verandah before ho was seen they have gone off on the road of and Mrs. D. Burlingham, Mrs. I. by a domestic, and secured. The Day, Lieat.-Com. Fanshawe, Lieut.-man did not disclose the nature of political idealism and landed them-Com. Thompson and Surgeon-Com. his visit when questioned by the Lelves and their country into a sorry and Mrs. Williams.
police, but for a week he was kept mesi. The great Nationalist op-
under medical observation at Vie torin Gaol, on the supposition that he was not sane.
À Chinese was injured in Queen's Road East yesterday, through being knocked down by Mr. T. E. Jackson's car. man was taken to the Government Civil Hospital,
The
The forthcoming wedding is portunity has, so far, been ruth-announced of Mr. Eduard Alberta lessly spandered.
Ribeiro (clerk), residing at No. The doctor's report lins since been 526, Nathan Road, to Miss Luleida received, and when the man was Augusto Mattos, of No. 486, Na-brought before the Magistrate this than Road, Kowloon,
hongkong Telegraph.sation, soire other item, important
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1927,
SQUANDERED OPPORTUNITY;
In the current issue of the Far Eastern Review there is a very timely article on the Nationalist opportunity, which points out that after teen years of struggling the Nationalists--or the Kuomin- tang-have become the dominant
to
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"I should drink up 'la beer, sir, and 'ook it."
"P stands for Parliament, Commons and Peers; They'll talk if permitted,
For months, any, for years."
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A stately woman walked into the Paris Prefecture of Polico recently and asked for a passport application form.
She filled in name, age, place' of birth and so on carefully, until. she reached the line marked "Special Identification Marka."
"Are you sure you have no (special identification mark?" ask-
ed the bobbed-haired girl clerk.
The stately woman hesitated, locked at the shorn locks of her interlocutor, then wrote in a bold hand: "Wears her hair long."
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Willesden magistrate: Did not your husband endow you with all his worldly gooda?-Wife: Yes, and I endowed him with mine, which made as equal.
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Man at Enfield: I had five drinks one after the other, and they put me in a cul de sac.
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Wanstead man: No woman apologises for smoking at any morning, Detective Murphy was time: She takes it as her right asked how he proposed to proceed now. with the caso in view of the medi- cal report that the man was quite faune, and that his condition in
other respects was normal.
The officer replied that in that case they would have to call upon the man to give an account of him- Badly injured through a heavy self,, and failing to obtain a satis block of wood falling on his head factory answer, to proceed against while he was collecting wood chipa bim on the charge of trespassing at the Kwong Fat Slipway, a Chin- with felonious intent. ese boy died at the Kwong Wah Hospil yesterday, soon after ad-tenced to six weeks' hard labour, mission.
dance was
A very successful whist drive and
hold at British school by the other ranks the Contral of "Headquarter Wing," 1st. Bat- talion, The Cameroniana, last night. During the evening refreshments
were served.
Extension
Road Central.
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West Ham man: All a husband is wanted for now is to mind the babies while the wife" goes out jazzing.
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Kingston man: I went there early to catch the cars before they arrived.
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On, this count, the man was sen-pupil perpetrated a good "howler" A Stirlingshiro Sunday School
FORTUNE TELLERS.
MUST NOW HAVE LICENCE,
in the course of an examination paper under the Welfare of Youth Scheme.
The child wrote: "The good. Samaritan fell among thieves by the roadside, and the thorns grew up and choked him."
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a fortune-teller for not possessing The rapidity with which build- a licence, and, replying to a ques-ings are put up and torn down in int positively tion by Major C. Willson, stated America makes
the C.S.P., the effect of which was of
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The Tjileboet Rescues. The value of news items is com- parative, so that when the general
This morning's Harbour Office taste is for a certain type of sen- returns gave nine arrivals and 14 departures, of which two and four in itself, loses thereby. Thus the respectively were British, leaving stranding of the Dutch vessel Ti-55 vessely in harbour, the British leboet and subsequent rescue of ships numbering 20. passengers by Kritish naval men was overshadowed to some extent by current China news, Yet in a way it was another epic of the sun, with the bluejacket once more exhibiting his versatility, and cheerful usefulness, whenever. and wherever, there is human life in danger. Soon after distress tish warships were on the scene signals from the Dutch ship, Bri- The Frobisher and Stormcloud were prominent in this response, and the latter brought over 1,000 Chinese emigrants back Hongkong. Though the Tjileboer was not spec-
Overheard in a" Motor-car. tacularly wrecked, her position was
That all rative fortune-tellers "This is a pretty town, wasn't it?" ene of danger, and there were very party in that portion of China high seas running at the time.
It was reported to the police have been brought into line with
As a class, farmers are as good which lies to the south of the Yang-This rendered the work of rescue yesterday that money and property hawkers and are now required to
any other.--Mr. J. taze and that they have thus had both difficult and hazardous. Act-amounting to the value of $116 pay a license fee of $. in the in-citizens as
case Wyllic. Cally, it was made more arda was stolen from quarters occupied teresting disclosure from a
The plays which are being pro- ** presented to them a wonderful op- ous owing to fear among the by the native employees of the at the Central Police Court this
duced in New York at the present Eastern portunity. The writer reviews Chinese deck passengers. Some of
Telegraph morning.
Sergeant Dickson, of the Hawk-time are absolutely filthy.-Mr. how, through the military successes them and to be carried by the Bri-Company, at No. 3, Connaught
ers Department, was prosecuting Matheson Lang. tish sailors down the companion. of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the ways to the boats, as they were too Nationalists have won a really sur- confused to shift for themselves. The ss. President Taft arrived The British tur, so often made the to-day from America, Japan and prising victory and how, had they victim of China's propagandists in ports, carrying 88 cabin passengers that this was a recent measure of dizzy Mr. II. W. Corbett.
I heard it said that the London chosen, they might have wrought their railing against imperialism" and 101 steerage passengers,
great work of improvement for did not hesitate to lend a very help whom 53 cabin and 256 steerage the incorporation of fortune-tell-poliseman will give a civil answer ing hand in coolies in distress. No passengers discmbarked here. Thers within the general body, of to the most foolish question that their country. But, instead of this doubt these emigrants. coming from boat also brought 160 bags of mail wkers. Otherwise, Sergeant the greatest fool can ask-Lord wonderful victory being used for various parts of the coast, and in and 1,700 tons of cargo for this Dickson added, the case against Provost of Glasgow. the benefit of China,
communities close to treaty ports | port. Bays the
where agitation has Intely been writer, it is being used to embroil much in evidence, were duly reach- Ching in a war with the Powers and cd by the leaflets and other means of disseminating hatred of the for- eigner. Perhaps they had heard of world revolution which have failed the Bins Bay "massacre"! But now wherever they have been adopted. I they know the humble tar as he really is ready to act sternly What China requires at this time where the necessity arises, but in is not a wild goose chase after case of crisis eager to prove his threadbare European idealism but. possession of a good share of the milk of human kindness. Those rather reconstruction, the building coolies will long remember their ex-entering and leaving the Colony of roads and railways, the develop-perience, and the most wonderful during the period from March 28 ment of industry, the improvement thing. for them should be the object to April 3, inclusive, shows 10,388 lesson of British readiness to aid of agriculture, the education of the the lowly and distressed. Future youth of the nation, and these and anti-British propaganda will prob- comparable things can only be ably, to borrow an Americanism,
leave them "cold". achieved by vision and energy. They will never be achieved by ful- some antagonisms against foreign- ers and by unmeaning attacks on existing institutions. The Com Paris. monists now largely dominating the New York
Brussels Nationalist party are not thinking Amsterdam of the welfare of China, they are Geneva
Milan concerned only with the world reBerlin volution, with, China as a jumping-Stockholm off place for a proletarian revolt Copenhagen
Oulo. against capitalism. But in China Vienna
to propagate fantastic ideas of a
EXCHANGE RATES.
there is neither genuine capitalism Prague
Helaingfors nor a genuine proletariat-only the Madrid
Lisbon beginnings of both.
Athen As regards foreign Powers, it Bucharest
Rio has long since been admitted that
Buenos Aires China is justified in seeking a re-Bombay. vision of existing treaties, but such Shanghai
Hongkong n revision will not bo secured by Yokohama the methods which Nationalist Silver (spot)
Silver (forward) China has adopted. The foreign
in local
Cur-
these fortune-tellers could have
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been conducted under the, "She seems to think that
because Vagraney Ordinance. On a Chinese who was stopped
her husband, in her
have His Worship, after referring to opinion, ought to and searched in the street yester the Hawkers Ordinance, reservel knighted, she is entitled to call been day, a police searcher found 300his decision until to-mhororw moru herself what she would have been gold dollara, $200 rency, and two gold watches. It ing.
in that event," said Mr. Justice is believed that the money
Astbury in the Chancery Division and watches were stolen and the man
during the hearing of a motion was taken into custody for further
by which Sir George Croydon investigation.
Marks and Lady Marks sought to restrain Mrs. Marks, of Westmore- land-street, Portland-place, Lon- don, from using the title of Lady Marks, and Dr. C. Hubert Roberts from representing her to be Lady
The return of Chinese passengers
DOG BITES.
TWO CASES YESTERDAY.
Police Sergeant Cameron was arrivals and 11,143 departures by bitten by a dog which he attempt- Marks.. ocean-going steamers, and 24,402ed to seize yesterday. The animal
The matter was allowed to stand and 21,986 respectively by river belongs to Mr. R. Sequeira, of
over for a week.
It was stated that a letter had steamers, passenger junks and for- Rednexala Terrace, and has been been received from Mrs. Marks fa eign-going launches. This shows removed to the depot at Kennedy which she apologised for using n. distinct excess of departures over Town arrivals.
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The little daughter of Quarter-the title, and promised never to mastor Sergeant Loe, living in the do so again. In charging three ricksha coolies Married Military Quarters, Ken-
An old story revised. before Major C. Willson to-day with addy Road, was also attacked and Lendom, April 11.
The struggling actor had at last disorderly conduct at the Canton bitten by a deg belonging to 4.8644 Wharf, Inspector Cotton stated Sergeauit Currian. The child was received a spoaking part, which 34.03 that the ricksha and chair coolics later treated at the Military Hos-consisted of these few words, 12.14 for some time past had carried pital.
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25.25 on a feud with the motor-drivers .100.96 at this spot. They had a regular
.20.43
set-to yesterday, this resulting in 18.18 police intervention and the arro 18.08 of the three defendants. Major
C. Willson bound the 'men over.
.18.20
.04.5414 .104
ARMS CASE.
AMMUNITION FROM AMERICA.
A Chinese
passenger from
"Hark, a pistol shot!"
At the last moment stage fright got the upper hand, and rushing on the stage the young man said- "Hark, a shistol pot. No, no, a shostol pit!" Then, determined not to be beaten, he asked drama- ticnily, "Did you hear that bang?"
.102 Singapore has recently been 27.701 visited by the Japanese Davis Cup 2/17/32 lawn tennis player, S. Okamoto,
A class of instruction in "Home 368 with his wife, and several exhibi-America by the as. President Taft, Nursing" is being formed, and will tion games have been played, the appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at bo held at the Helena May .6/13/10
talent, the Kowloon Magistracy this morn Institute, commencing May 4th, at Japanese meeting local 717/12 1/5.29/32 either as opponents or in combina ing, on a charge of having in his 5:10 p.m. Mrs. Minett, M.D., B.S
2/01tion with others. A very interest possession 192 rounds of ammuni-D.P.H., has kindly consented to act as lecturer A practical de- 2/0.3/10 Ing match between Mr. and Mrs. tion
2/0 Okamoto and Mrs. Laing and Mr. The defendant pleaded guilty and monetration in connexion with the 20% Kleinman, resulted in the defeat was fined $1,000. It was stated "Home Nursing" class will be 20/3/16 of the Japonese pair by 2-6, 6-4, that the ammunition was concealed given at the Matilda Hospital on
in the sides of a packing case. Friday, April 22nd at 8,80 ping
tish Wirelona.
6-3.